[linux-audio-user] Common linux audio layer

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Fri Jan 7 18:02:47 EST 2005


On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 22:45 +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote:
> The questions are:
> 
> * Would JACK be stable enough? I guess yes. Furthermore, we 
> can make a deamon which restarts jack if it dies
> 
> * Is JACK secure enough? Certainly jack would never be started 
> by any distribution per default with realtime privileges. But 
> this is not needed for the common user, so users who need it 
> can turn it on later.
> 
> * Could JACK be started during boot time and collect audio 
> from any user? As discussed before, this is not necessaryly 
> needed, JACK could also be started as soon a user logs in. 
> But I like the idea that I can have multiple X sessions and 
> every of these users can play audio
> 
> * One problem remains, JACK cannot use different soundcards 
> because of the cards quartzes. So, would we have to start a 
> seperate JACK instance for each card?

Linspire (formerly Lindows, then L*nd*ws or something) posted to the
jackit-devel list that they are in fact using JACK as the sound server
for their next release.  Let's see how well they pull it off...

Lee 




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