/usr/bin/jackd -r -s -v -d alsa -P cras & this will allow JACK to cras very useful for audio programs

[billyblackburn]

https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/wiki/Access-audio-hardware-directly-(ALSA,-JACK)

after the jackd command then run qjackctl and it will connect to it.

i just want to post this here for redundancy in case it helps someone