On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Joel Roth <joelz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Although ignorant about many things JACKish, I would expect > that it's fair for a JACK client manage its ports as allowed > under JACK's API. its entirely fair. what's not going to work is to have multiple clients fighting to control the same set of connections. > I'd appreciate any suggestions, as I'm about at the end > of rope (at least without plunging into jack.plumbing > and Ecasound's sources.) your problem is in jack.plumbing. its really quite simple code, but its not part of "official" JACK. put another way, jack,plumbing really needs to know if the connections it wants to make are for active clients, but there is (currently) no way to do this. most clients become active immediately after port registration, but its not an error for them not to do so. your setup is just exposing this weak link in the chain, but its not clear where the "fix" should be. --p _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user