[LAU] A year of Linux Audio revisited - would like to know your oppinion

[Jan Depner]

On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 13:46 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 10:08 -0800, Robert Persson wrote:
> > Looking at my (non-)workflow yesterday, it is clear to me that the most
> > time-wasting problems I am having are with jack. I start jack, I open
> > the various clients, I plug them into each other and I start working.
> > Then jack boots some of its clients off, or even crashes, and I have to
> > start again.
> > 
> > Time spent setting up jack etc:    90%
> > Time doing productive work:        10%
> 
> Most people's time spent setting up JACK is because they are on a Linux
> distribution that doesn't come configured correctly for using realtime
> media applications. On systems that are, running JACK is essentially
> trivial unless you insist on using USB audio interfaces which, partly
> because of their terrible h/w design and partly because of ALSA's poor
> driver support for them (compared to OS X and Windows), tend to be more
> problematic.
> 

    I was a bit confused by that as well.  I'm running a vanilla FC6
without any patches and JACK just runs (like the energizer bunny).  I do
have a patched kernel with Ingo's RT patches but I hardly ever boot it
because, for the most part, it isn't necessary.


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Jan 'Evil Twin' Depner
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