[LAU] Fwd: Jack included in Main for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx

Fritz Meissner meissner.fritz at gmail.com
Sun Feb 28 15:02:35 EST 2010


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From: Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora at gmail.com>
Date: 28 February 2010 21:44
Subject: Re: [LAU] Jack included in Main for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx
To: Fritz Meissner <meissner.fritz at gmail.com>


On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Fritz Meissner wrote:
> On 28 February 2010 20:56, rosea grammostola
> wrote:
>> On 2/28/10, Fritz Meissner wrote:
>>> On 28 February 2010 20:29, rosea grammostola
>>>  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.
>

At Fedora, we have pulseaudio that is supposedly compiled with jack
support for a while now. Since the pulseaudio is a Fedora driven
software, I would assume that we should have the best pulseaudio
support. However, still it doesn't work properly. I still tell our
users it is best to get rid of pulseaudio if they want to do audio
production.

So, please don't raise your expectations. Pulseaudio is the same
cra...  uh, the same annoyance.

Orcan


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