Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > 2009/5/27 Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey at boosthardware.com>: > >> Do you or anyone else have a specific reasoning for using only the jackdbus >> version? Is is just because the person who wrote the code wrote it to work >> with jackdbus? >> >> Is this something that could be handled in a different way to give legacy >> jack users this feature? >> > > I don't use Jack myself (anymore), but from what I understand, this > feature is tied to jackdbus, because D-Bus is the protocol Jack and PA > use to communicate with each other. When PA is running and Jack is > started, Jack can't force PA to release the device, if PA doesn't want > to cooperate (well, it could use the "kill" command or something...). > PA cooperates by listening for device release requests using D-Bus, so > Jack has to use D-Bus too. And apparently jackdbus is the only > implementation that does that. > > Hi, So is the only way to communicate with pulse other than brute force kill or "pasuspender" to use the dbus protocol? Cheers. Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd
