[LAU] Any Linux distro with Jack and Pulseaudio working right?

Ralf Mardorf ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Mon Oct 29 10:35:10 UTC 2012


On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 08:27 +1100, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> On Mon, October 29, 2012 7:11 am, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > For what usage do you need pulseaudio?
> >
> > It might work for you OOTB using Ubuntu Studio Precise LTS or Quantal.
> >
> > On my machine pulseaudio always failed, IOW it doesn't work for Precise
> > and Quantal too.
> >
> > Even if you like PA, you should reconsider to disable it for serious
> > audio work.
> >
> 
> Ralf, this advice is out of date.
> 
> On any distro you can install the jack-sink modules and PA will gracefully
> reconnect to jack when jack is started.
> 
> Otherwise you can run "pulseaudio -k" from the commandline to temporarily
> disable pulseaudio when you are running jack. In qjackctl this can be
> added as a preliminary startup command in the preferences section.

Thank you :)

unfortunately I can't use pulseaudio with my card. However, I didn't
know "pulseaudio -k".

Regards,
Ralf



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