Ardour and Jack in Suse 9.1

Hey everyone I'm running SuSE 9.1 and am trying to get Ardour and Jack to work properly. I used Yast to install Ardour, while Jack just came installed already. I started Jack using the following commmand: $ sudo jackd -d alsa -d hw:1 and Adrour with this command: $ sudo ardour I tried jackstart, but it apparently could not find that command. In Ardour I can record, but the sound is distorted. Also, when monitoring the output of my M Audio Delta 44 sound card, the output is delayed compared to the input. How should I go about getting better sound? Do I have to recompile the kernel? Do I need to add a patch? Thanks for any help with this. Sorry, when it comes to Linux audio I'm a bit of a noob... Ben