Re: [linux-audio-user] Great news for JACK & KDE

On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Steve Harris wrote: Quite likely. I asked around with some friends on the internet and it seems split pretty evenly. That and many people don't use either (I do most of my recording using fluxbox). Too much coffee, not enough brain. In ths spirit of this thread, is it really even possible that any sound server could be used across window managers? Are people suggesting that jackd be used as the lower-level sound daemon all the window managers could talk to? I assume ALSA in 2.6 is going to look (from above) just like the OSS sound layer. Doesn't this solve the problem? Or do artsd/esd/whatever get "in the way"? Will a window manager have to be re-coded if it assumes there's a lower-level daemon that emulates full-duplex on cheap hardware? artds has saved my bacon on 2 workstations at work with cheap-arse onboard sound. Would something like KDE require significant re-coding to use jackd? artsd seems to work fine for me, including sound in browsers. But I turn off all the window manager sounds (when using KDE) so maybe I've just never seen the conflict. I don't use it when I use jack/ardour though. off-topic: are there any newsgroups like this one that deal with home studio design and layout for the hobbyist? // John Bleichert // syborg(a)earthlink.net