Excerpts from Allan McRae's message of 2010-04-07 03:06:50 +0200: > On 07/04/10 10:21, Philipp wrote: > > Excerpts from fons's message of 2010-04-07 00:46:09 +0200: > >> It seems like Arch is currently offering Jack and qjackctl > >> packages that are not compatible. > >> > >> The Jack authors changed one some command line options > >> in 0.118. '-R' for realtime is no longer available as > >> realtime is now the default, and the new '-r' means > >> 'no realtime'. > >> > >> Qjackctl 0.3.6 is aware of this, but won't work well with > >> Jack 0.116 which is still the one available from Arch. > >> In other words, the update of qjackctl was probably a bit > >> premature. > >> > >> Ciao, > > > > The real problem is that jack is still stuck at the rather old 0.116. > > One reason might be those, IMHO in the meanwhile annoying scripts that > > ship with the Arch jack package. It's tough to get them right it seems. > > I would be all in favor of splitting them into a separate package and > > install jack just the way it is supposed to. Much less hassle, less > > confused users and as a bonus those scripts can be easily used with > > other variants of jack. > > > > Either way, there's really no reason to still ship 0.116.2 when 0.118.0 > > was released in November, almost 5 months ago. > > > jack 0.118 is in [testing]. Does anyone know the reason why it is there > and whether it can be moved? > > Allan I know that there was a new script and that it got reverted to the old 'as root' version for some reason. I'm sure it's all about that script. I think Schiv knows the details. Philipp
