Jan Depner wrote: > On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 13:46 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: >> On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 10:08 -0800, Robert Persson wrote: >>> Looking at my (non-)workflow yesterday, it is clear to me that the most >>> time-wasting problems I am having are with jack. I start jack, I open >>> the various clients, I plug them into each other and I start working. >>> Then jack boots some of its clients off, or even crashes, and I have to >>> start again. >>> >>> Time spent setting up jack etc: 90% >>> Time doing productive work: 10% >> Most people's time spent setting up JACK is because they are on a Linux >> distribution that doesn't come configured correctly for using realtime >> media applications. On systems that are, running JACK is essentially >> trivial unless you insist on using USB audio interfaces which, partly >> because of their terrible h/w design and partly because of ALSA's poor >> driver support for them (compared to OS X and Windows), tend to be more >> problematic. >> > > I was a bit confused by that as well. I'm running a vanilla FC6 > without any patches and JACK just runs (like the energizer bunny). I do > have a patched kernel with Ingo's RT patches but I hardly ever boot it > because, for the most part, it isn't necessary. > > don't wanna be a pita, but current jack svn is dropping the towel as fast as one single client gets it astray -- in fact it really looks like the other sort of bunnies :o) yes, that is still an open issue and has been reported on the jack list(s) several times now. i really wish i could get some time to look at the source (of the trouble, that is) but, you know, old excuses don't pay debts ... eheh byee -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
