Justin Smith ha scritto: [cut] > and I have to pick between audio using apps (if I want to watch a > youtube video in firefox I need to shut down my jack server, and most > of the apps using it, first, or download the raw file so I can watch > it in an app that uses jack - unless there is some way to do this with > portaudio I am ignorant of? I have had zero luck making jack use > dmix). Have you tried the patch I ported to jack 0.109.2 to make it disconnect from the ALSA backend without closing its client applications? (you cannot use JACK midi with it though, alsa midi is fine) See http://www.nabble.com/-PATCH--JACK-0.109.2-alsa-device-disconnect-patch-td16054274.html Patch, rebuild and enjoy :) HTH ciao -- salvuz POST FATA RESVRGO Linux registered user #291700 | machine #174619 get counted on ---> http://counter.li.org/ <--- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user