[LAU] Fwd: Jack included in Main for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx

torbenh torbenh at gmx.de
Sun Feb 28 19:36:42 EST 2010


On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:02:35PM +0200, Fritz Meissner wrote:
> Received this reply direct to me - forwarding to list for general info.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora at gmail.com>
> Date: 28 February 2010 21:44
> Subject: Re: [LAU] Jack included in Main for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx
> To: Fritz Meissner <meissner.fritz at gmail.com>
> 
> 
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Fritz Meissner wrote:
> > On 28 February 2010 20:56, rosea grammostola
> > wrote:
> >> On 2/28/10, Fritz Meissner wrote:
> >>> On 28 February 2010 20:29, rosea grammostola
> >>>  wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On 2/28/10, Fritz Meissner <meissner.fritz at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> > I'm not sure if this is old news to others, but I just noticed that
> >>>> > jack has been approved for inclusion in main for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx;
> >>>> > this means that now PortAudio can be built with support for jack and
> >>>> > we hopefully will be able to have a distro that "just works" for
> >>>>
> >>>> PortAudio or Pulseaudio?
> >>>>
> >>> Sorry, I meant Pulseaudio, but Portaudio is also assisted by this;
> >>> there are a number of other benefits to, including making Firewire
> >>> devices accessible to audio packages without needing to recomplile
> >>> them. The Main Inclusion Report for jack at
> >>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MainInclusionReportJACK summarises the
> >>> benefits nicely.
> >>>
> >>> Fritz
> >>
> >> Will it really be possible in lucid to let pulseaudio work with jack1 and jack2?
> >> Or are there still difficulties?
> >>
> > I'd be fascinated to know the answer to that one. It should be much
> > the same result as for someone who is at present running Pulseaudio
> > hand compiled with jack support, if anyone can report on their
> > results. My impression is that most people with problems have rather
> > removed PA than try to make it work with jack, so data may be scarce.
> >
> 
> At Fedora, we have pulseaudio that is supposedly compiled with jack
> support for a while now. Since the pulseaudio is a Fedora driven
> software, I would assume that we should have the best pulseaudio
> support. However, still it doesn't work properly. I still tell our
> users it is best to get rid of pulseaudio if they want to do audio
> production.
> 
> So, please don't raise your expectations. Pulseaudio is the same
> cra...  uh, the same annoyance.

hmm... dunno. i am on debian. of course pa is build with jack support.
and it doesnt really do anything bad.
it just sits there. hogging a jack port.

it seems to go away, when i kill jackd.
never investigated where it went then.



-- 
torben Hohn


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