[linux-audio-user] ANN: Bristol 0.9.4

[Nick Copeland]

Hi All,

Bristol itself does not fall back to ALSA, but the compilation did not 
include the Jack code (will upload a fix today). Without the Jack code in 
the executable (try 'ldd $BRISTOL/bin/bristol' and look for libjack) then 
there is per se no support and we drop through to the audio device, this is 
correct operation for the compiled binary and the fix is for me to be a 
little wiser in compilation. I will add a flag to the effect of printing an 
error message when Jack is selected and the libraries were not included in 
the compilation. This first release only looked for Jack headers and 
libraries in the default location, /usr/local/ and if they could not be 
found there then tough. The fix is just for me to look a little bit further 
than the end of my nose :-)

Bristol does start jackd if it is not active, however since this us a 
function of the jack library then unless it is compiled with the application 
this will obviously not work either.

Nick
>From: Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com>
>To: A list for linux audio users <linux-audio-user at music.columbia.edu>
>CC: nickycopeland at hotmail.com
>Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] ANN: Bristol 0.9.4
>Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:57:23 -0400
>
>On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 10:16 +0200, Thomas Kuther wrote:
> > Hmm just tried 0.9.4-1.src.041906 compiled as you explained above, but
> > i
> > don't seem to be able to get it to use jack.
> > i did:
> > $ startBristol -b3 -jack &
> > or -audio jack
> >
> > but it starts using alsa.
> > Any hints? :)
> >
>
>Nick,
>
>I think this behavior of falling back to ALSA is confusing - most users
>would expect Bristol to fail to start if -jack is specified but it can't
>find the server.
>
>Lee
>

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