[LAU] jack and PulseAudio

[david]

Luka Princic // Nova deViator wrote:
> Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com>:
> 
>>>>> 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.
> 
> AFAIK, suspending PA works with qjackctl, not directly with
> jackd. just by running qjackctl, PA suspends. if you run it from the
> terminal, you'll see "Suspending PulseAudio". this means PA is
> suspended even if jack is not running - only qjackctl. this also means,
> jack CAN run while PA is running. i do this frequenlty as i start jack
> from the command line using firewire audio interface. 
> 
> jackd -v -R -t1000 -dfirewire -r44100 -p128 -n3
> 
> so i can do pro-audio through fw and still have flash movies playing in
> firefox. and hearing them.

I have all audio on my laptop playing through the USB sound card, 
including Flash in Firefox.

-- 
David
gnome at hawaii.rr.com
authenticity, honesty, community