[LAU] Ubuntu Studio

frank frankpirrone at gmail.com
Sat Apr 5 16:07:41 EDT 2008


R Dicaire wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Daniel Jones <lawson.jones at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hello List,
>>   I am relatively new to Linux audio 
<snip>

> Oh, under Ubuntu Gutsy, if you rebuild libasound2-plugins to include
> jack pcm, there's a bug in alsa (assertion failure or similar) that
> crashes the thread or app trying to use jack pcm plugin. Seems to be
> an issue with resampling.
>
> After trying all this on the above, I simply went to Debian testing
> (lenny, which Ubuntu is based on). They include the jack pcm plugin,
> and alsa doesnt exhibit the assertion failure I experienced under
> Gutsy.
>
> My understanding, though untested, is that alsa bug is fixed in
> Ubuntu's upcoming Hardy Heron release, but Hardy still doesnt include
> the jack pcm plugin by default.
>
> Hope that helps....
>   
As in another message thread, 64Studio is a very well constructed and 
high performing audio focused distro.

Frank




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