[LAU] disabling jack plugin autoconnect or autoconnect in itself

[fons at kokkinizita.net]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 11:57:50PM +0300, Jari Suominen wrote:

> Well here is the asoundrc I'm using:
> 
> pcm.!default {
>     type plug
> 	slave.channels 5
>     slave { pcm "jack" channels 5}
> }
> 
> pcm.jack {
>     type jack
>     playback_ports {
> 	0 system:playback_1
> 	1 system:playback_2
> 	2 system:playback_2
> 	3 system:playback_2
> 	4 system:playback_2
> 	}
>     capture_ports {
>         0 alsa_pcm:capture_1
>         1 alsa_pcm:capture_2
>     }
> }
> 
> ctl.mixer0 {
>     type hw
>     card 0
> }

OK, now I see your problem - I missed the 'alsa' in your description
of an app connecting to Jack, and was assuming a Jack app making 
unwanted connections. 

AFAICS, the syntax of the ALSA jack plugin specifies the ports to
connect to, and not the app's own ports which remain unknown. In
that case I don't see any solution. It's just bad design in the
sense that it missed a chance to be more general and configurable.

> >You can always watch connections using the callbacks and undo them.
> >But in many cases you'd be too late. The real solution is to allow
> >apps to 'lock' their ports, but this was removed from Jack some time
> >ago.
> 
> Is there any ready made app to do this?

Not that I know.

Ciao,

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