[LAU] pulseaudio issues [was Re: jackdbus issues: a workaround ? (Was: more jack/qjackctl madness)]

[Patrick Shirkey]

Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Patrick Shirkey
> <pshirkey at boosthardware.com> wrote:
>   
>> I have got a problem with pulseaudio and jack not playing together. More
>> importantly I have got a problem with pulseaudio being the default sound
>> server and not having automated functionality to connect with jack. If
>> after 10 years of running Linux audio, I have issues with getting
>> pulseaudio to play nicely then pulseaudio is failing to meet it's main
>> objective of making things easy for desktop users.
>>
>> I would really like to encourage the pulseaudio people who are reading
>> here to make pulse gracefully and automatically cede control to jack and
>> then auto configure itself as a jack interface.
>>     
>
> Pulse includes "pasuspender" to handle this use case.  From the man page:
>
>        pasuspender  is a tool that can be used to tell a local
> PulseAudio sound server to temporarily suspend access to the audio
> devices, to allow other applications access them directly. pasuspender
> will suspend access to the audio devices, fork a child process,
>        and when the child process terminates, resume access again.
>
> I guess this should be integrated into qjackctl & friends.
>
>   

Further testing reveals that it's been identified as a problem for a while.

https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2008-November/002603.html

Does anyone here know of the reasoning behind not making pulse audio 
handle this process by default?



Cheers.


Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd