Lee Revell wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Patrick Shirkey > <pshirkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I have got a problem with pulseaudio and jack not playing together. More >> importantly I have got a problem with pulseaudio being the default sound >> server and not having automated functionality to connect with jack. If >> after 10 years of running Linux audio, I have issues with getting >> pulseaudio to play nicely then pulseaudio is failing to meet it's main >> objective of making things easy for desktop users. >> >> I would really like to encourage the pulseaudio people who are reading >> here to make pulse gracefully and automatically cede control to jack and >> then auto configure itself as a jack interface. >> > > Pulse includes "pasuspender" to handle this use case. From the man page: > > pasuspender is a tool that can be used to tell a local > PulseAudio sound server to temporarily suspend access to the audio > devices, to allow other applications access them directly. pasuspender > will suspend access to the audio devices, fork a child process, > and when the child process terminates, resume access again. > > I guess this should be integrated into qjackctl & friends. > > Further testing reveals that it's been identified as a problem for a while. https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2008-November/002603.html Does anyone here know of the reasoning behind not making pulse audio handle this process by default? Cheers. Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
