[LAU] Jack fallback to alsa when firefire device off?

[david]

Bernardo Barros wrote:
> 2011/2/17 Daniel  Worth <pipemanmusic at gmail.com>:
>> I'm going to have to disagree here. falktx, the guy behind KXStudio, has
>> written a very useful script called pulse-jack that configures Pulseaudio
>> automatically to work with Jack. I have found this to work better and
>> require much less configuration than alsa-jack and allows me to use Skype
>> and Google Voice Chat for my podcast. I also use Torben's Flash Jack driver
>> and this setup doesn't interfere with pulseaudio or jack.
> 
> it is useful only if you really want pulseaudio, or if you really need
> skype. For me alsa/jack works very nice and no I had zero work to
> configure.
> 
>> The fact is that Pulseaudio is winning the widest adoption and thanks to the
>> pulse-jack script Pulseaudio works very well with jack.
> 
> well, that's not a strong argument for pro audio under linux, maybe
> true for desktop on ubuntu. I really see no point installing
> pulseaudio at all, unless cases like yours.

I don't see any need for PulseAudio even for ordinary desktop work. The 
fact that Skype doesn't work with JACK tells me more about Skype's poor 
programming than it does about any "need" for Pulse Audio.

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