[LAD] qjackd goes funkity

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 30 March 2009, Gene Heskett wrote:
>On Monday 30 March 2009, MarcO'Chapeau wrote:
>>On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:44:25 -0400, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
>>
>>wrote:
>>> Greetings all;
>>
>>Hi there,
>>
>>> 1: I installed the jack suite about a week ago, recommended by a friend
>>
>>and
>>
>>> I've had it grab core0 of my quad core phenom and loop at 100% several
>>> times,
>>> however, using qjackctl to stop and restart it always fixes it.  Is there
>>
>>a
>>
>>> buglet still around?
>>
>>Around where ? we don't know which version of JACK and qjackctl you're
>>using...
>
>[root at coyote linux-2.6.28.9]# rpm -qa|grep jack
>wine-jack-1.1.15-1.fc10.i386
>jack-rack-1.4.7-1.fc9.i386
>jack-audio-connection-kit-devel-0.116.1-3.fc10.i386
>pulseaudio-module-jack-0.9.14-1.fc10.i386
>projectM-jack-1.2.0-4.fc10.i386
>jack-audio-connection-kit-example-clients-0.116.1-3.fc10.i386
>qjackctl-0.3.3-1.fc10.i386
>jack-audio-connection-kit-0.116.1-3.fc10.i386
>
>>> 2: I have kmail set to play its usual pling as incoming mail arrives, and
>>>
>>> since I installed jack, its quite distorted and just a nearly mote
>>
>>whisper.
>>
>>> Is this a possible config error?
>>>
>>> It may be that 1 above is related to 2 above as it seems to occur at some
>>>
>>> point when the machine is quiet for the night, but
>>
>>fetchmail/procmail/kmail
>>
>>> is
>>> still running, so it would be getting tapped at that input several
>>
>>hundred
>>
>>> times by the time I get up the next morning.
>>>
>>> Comments/hints welcomed.
>>
>>You should probably not use JACK for desktop stuff... does all the apps
>>that output audio through JACK sound the same or is it just kmail ?
>
>Apparently just kmail that I've noticed so far, cnn's news video seem to be
>ok, as well as msnbc & abcnews.
>
>>Cheers,
>>Marc-Olivier Barre.
>
>Thank you.

PS: 13:16 local time, it has just now grabbed 2 of the 4 cores, but qjackctl 
stopped both copies just fine.

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