[LAU] All audio through Jack, cont'd

[Paul Davis]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Jonathan E. Brickman
<jeb at joshuacorps.org> wrote:
> OK.  I have two theories.  The first is a question:
>
> 1.  I know what libasound_module_pcm_jack.so does -- but what does
> libasound_module_pcm_jack.la do?  It has been said that the ALSA2Jack plugin
> won't work at all without the .la file, but it was working perfectly over
> here without it.  Is the .la something Ubuntu-specific?  Or...?

.la files are created and used by libtool. you should ignore them, for
the good of whatever is left of your own sanity.

> 2.  Theory #2 is the better because it accounts for the fact that it was
> working pretty well:  might the ALSA2Jack plugin have trouble handling
> multiple streams at once?  If so, is there a streams-mixing plugin I can use
> before ALSA2Jack, to make this work better?

no, the only stream mixer in ALSA is dmix.