On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 06:02:47 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 22:45 +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote: > > The questions are: > > > > * Would JACK be stable enough? I guess yes. Furthermore, we > > can make a deamon which restarts jack if it dies > > > > * Is JACK secure enough? Certainly jack would never be started > > by any distribution per default with realtime privileges. But > > this is not needed for the common user, so users who need it > > can turn it on later. > > > > * Could JACK be started during boot time and collect audio > > from any user? As discussed before, this is not necessaryly > > needed, JACK could also be started as soon a user logs in. > > But I like the idea that I can have multiple X sessions and > > every of these users can play audio > > > > * One problem remains, JACK cannot use different soundcards > > because of the cards quartzes. So, would we have to start a > > seperate JACK instance for each card? > > Linspire (formerly Lindows, then L*nd*ws or something) posted to the > jackit-devel list that they are in fact using JACK as the sound server > for their next release. Let's see how well they pull it off... The tricky bit is stopping non-RT apps (the bings and bongs apps) from messing up the deadlines for the RT apps. I would be more confortable if they'd made a MAS server (or gstreamer, whatever) that talks JACK, then you only have one non-RT app (the server) that has to be carefully vetted. That could be what they've done ofcourse. - Steve
