Last Wednesday 06 April 2005 01:19, Ivica Ico Bukvic was like: > Hi all, > > First of all, please accept my apologies for cross-posting. I simply feel > that this issue may be of interest to all these groups. > > After some research and experimenting with jacklaunch (libjackasyn) as well > as alsa .asoundrc jack plugin I found out that very few apps actually > cooperate with either of these. > > Jack plugin for asoundrc practically works only with aplay/arecord and > freebirth. Audacity doesn't cooperate with either, while jacklaunch even > though it has been reported to work with sweep doesn't on my machines (mdk > 10.0 and 10.1). > > I've tested latest jack, sweep, Alsa 1.0.6 and 1.0.7 (I did not go beyond > that as 1.0.8 has apparent issues with hdsploader) and had no luck > whatsoever. > > Hence, I am just wondering at this point whether asoundrc jack is still in > the testing phase (some of the errors that apps reported trying to use jack > plug were due to inability to probe some info from the alsa driver which > implies possible incompleteness of the implementation or weird probing from > the app's side) and also whether anyone has had better luck than myself > using either of these with audacity, sweep, and other non-jackified, yet > important Linux audio apps via either of the aforementioned ways. > > FWIW, it would be really nice to see some united effort to jackify some of > the other critical Linux audio apps even if their original authors do not > feel like that is one of their priorities (I know, I know, if I am so > interested in such developments then I might as well set an example by > doing what I am advocating, which is something I would love to do, but > unfortunately currently the notion of "free time" in my life is but a > joke). I think it may be the case that most of the Debian packages that Guenter Geiger maintains will work with jacklaunch. I've seen a JACK Sweep in the menus and confess to never having used it. Is it simply that not enough other people/distros have really made enough use of it to properly test it? cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk
