[LAU] perhaps why some of us have more trouble w/ pulseaudio than others (ICE1712/M-audio delta problem w/ pulseaudio)

[david]

Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 10:00 -1000, david wrote:
>> Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:41 PM, david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
>>>> rosea.grammostola wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 23:34 -1000, david wrote:
>>>>>> Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
>>>>>>> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Hartmut Noack <zettberlin at linuxuse.de>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> This musing about "broken" alsa-drivers that need to be "fixed" in the
>>>>>>>> thread at PA increases the bad feeling about PA's relation and awarenes
>>>>>>>> to pro-audio.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> best regs
>>>>>>>> HZN
>>>>>>> PA is specifically for 'desktop' usage, pro-audio isn't a part of
>>>>>>> that. If you're doing pro-audio you'd be running JACK anyway. I
>>>>>>> struggle to understand why a user would want PA, with all the inherent
>>>>>>> latency concerns (compared to JACK) to control their pro-audio
>>>>>>> soundcard.
>>>>>> Perhaps Pulse really just wants to get rid of JACK in the first place?
>>>>> ???
>>>> Replace JACK entirely with Pulse, become the only audio server game in town?
>>>> ;-)
>>> Yeah, world domination is ALWAYS on the agenda I'm sure. Which is why
>>> Pulseaudio automatically suspends its control of a sound card with
>>> jack2 requests control =)
>> Maybe in some version of PulseAudio you have. The one I used to have 
>> here did not. So I removed it. Simpler that way. I guess I still 
>> consider PulseAudio unnecessary for any purpose.
>>
> For reference (not specifically directed to you), more recent versions
> of Pulse (not sure exactly which) and jack2 (jackdmp) cooperate in that
> form. Recent distributions should have it sorted, unless they're using
> jack1.

I use jackdmp. Seeing no need whatsoever for Pulse, I have no desire to 
re-install it just to see if it behaves itself now.

-- 
David
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