[LAU] Jack included in Main for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx

[Fritz Meissner]

On 28 February 2010 20:56, rosea grammostola
<rosea.grammostola at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/28/10, Fritz Meissner <meissner.fritz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 28 February 2010 20:29, rosea grammostola
>> <rosea.grammostola at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2/28/10, Fritz Meissner <meissner.fritz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > I'm not sure if this is old news to others, but I just noticed that
>>> > jack has been approved for inclusion in main for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx;
>>> > this means that now PortAudio can be built with support for jack and
>>> > we hopefully will be able to have a distro that "just works" for
>>>
>>> PortAudio or Pulseaudio?
>>>
>> Sorry, I meant Pulseaudio, but Portaudio is also assisted by this;
>> there are a number of other benefits to, including making Firewire
>> devices accessible to audio packages without needing to recomplile
>> them. The Main Inclusion Report for jack at
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MainInclusionReportJACK summarises the
>> benefits nicely.
>>
>> Fritz
>
> Will it really be possible in lucid to let pulseaudio work with jack1 and jack2?
> Or are there still difficulties?
>
I'd be fascinated to know the answer to that one. It should be much
the same result as for someone who is at present running Pulseaudio
hand compiled with jack support, if anyone can report on their
results. My impression is that most people with problems have rather
removed PA than try to make it work with jack, so data may be scarce.

Fritz