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

[Patrick Shirkey]

On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 17:40 -0600, Jan Depner wrote:
> 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.
> 

me too. even with a usb device.

-- 
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.