'Twas brillig, and Ng Oon-Ee at 20/10/09 07:26 did gyre and gimble: > On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 12:26 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: >> Quick suggestion, in latest pulse and latest jack pulse will give up >> control of the audio hardware when Jack starts (as informed by dbus) and >> grab control back once Jack stops. Could module-jack-sink and >> module-jack-source also be loaded/unloaded at these points? I took a >> quick look/grep through the current git sources but couldn't figure out >> where this is handled. >> > Corollary suggestion: mark the internal audio device as 'off' (as if > user had set 'off' in Configuration of pavucontrol) when jack takes > control of the audio device. More suitable to what has actually happened > then having an 'active' sink which doesn't accept audio, pausing > whatever streams happen to be playing to it at the time (and causing a > 'hang' in the sound app, though I know that's an app bug in audio > handling). Right now I can just manually move the stream to the > module-jack-sink output and the app continues fine, but if the sink had > been marked 'off', this would have happened automatically I believe. > > This second suggestion is more wish-list than anything, since I know its > not as simple as the first. It was my impression that the module-jack-* was loaded at this point, but I've not looked at the code, and a simple grep seems to confirm you findings. These would be good additions for interoperability IMO (but I may have missed something). 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/]
