[LAD] [Jack-Devel] more jack/qjackctl madness : some comments

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Mon May 18 18:00:49 UTC 2009


On Monday 18 May 2009 12:50:50 Paul Davis wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons at kokkinizita.net> 
wrote:
> > Jack-dbus is not just an (optional) server using
> > the C API and providing access to it via dbus.
> >
> > I don not know what exactly is happening but it
> > interferes even if clients are just using the
> > C API. And it breaks it.
>
> as far as we can tell, this is true *only* for the auto-start
> situation, and that is because of the substantive difference that i
> outlined in a previous message about what "auto-start" means in two
> different run-time environments. and it showed up for you, as best as
> can be determined, because of packaging/build issues that we hope have
> been fixed.

So perhaps the problem is that Fons is getting an autostart from somewhere, he 
knows not where, that he doesn't know how to disable?

If there is a simple way to disable jack autostart on his system, can someone 
clue him in and see if it solves his problems for now?
>
> everyone involved (i think) agrees that the current way this has to
> come to be (a dbus-specific version of libjack) is not the right
> solution. we are discussing ways to fix this on #jack at present.

all the best,

drew





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