[LAU] I just don't know Jack anymore.

[david]

Brent Busby wrote:
> I'm updating packages on a studio machine that's been fairly stable with 
> Jack 0.116.2, just to catch up with what's been going on.  Jack's been 
> up to all kinds of stuff since then though.
> 
> There's Jack with DBus, Jack without DBus, Jack that does realtime by 
> default, Jack that needs '-R' for realtime, Jack specialized for 
> multiple processors, Jack that runs on multiple processors but isn't 
> specialized for it...there's probably a plain old Jack somewhere too.
> 
> I know Jack's been a busy guy, and all work and no play make Jack a dull 
> boy, but all these choices and options are enough to make someone go get 
> a bottle of Jack and get jacked up just thinking about it.
> 
> I'm running Gentoo with the Pro-Audio overlay, and it looks like there 
> are versions from both the 0.x and 1.x series available.  What's 
> recommended these days for someone with four AMD cores, RME hardware 
> (via PCI-E, no firewire), and has always worked fine with the 0.x series 
> even on SMP?  (And I have no PulseAudio, and don't plan on getting any.)

I don't know all those details. JackDMP 1.9.x works here where I 
couldn't get JACK 0.116 to work. But I've only got lowly single-core 
processors here.

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David
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