'Twas brillig, and Patrick Shirkey at 09/08/09 19:08 did gyre and gimble: >> I suspect that the 32 bit libjack just happens to be installed. This >> is exactly the same with pulse. > > Seems I misunderstood the original notice on the jack list. > > Here's what Paul Davis said about the way jack is working in this > regard. Can you confirm for me that this is the same approach that > pulseaudio is already taking? IIUC they are the using the same approach. Yup, that's the same approach used by pulse. Basically you still need a 32-bit library (libpulse or libjack) to communicate with the server but it doesn't matter if the server is 32 or 64 bit, the client library will still talk to it. Cheers Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]