Next steps after inclusion of jack in main

[Fritz Meissner]

On 9 March 2010 21:11, Scott Lavender <scottalavender at gmail.com> wrote:
>

>
> I poked around a bit and have some answers (correct ones also I think) about
> Pulse Audio and JACK integration in Lucid.
>
> Since the transition of JACK into the main repositories there have been a
> number of applications that now have been built with JACK support in Lucid,
> notably Pulse Audio.
>
> Therefore, if you were to download the latest Alpha image you can test that
> integration.  You can find it here:
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/10.04/alpha-3/.  Please note
> that I am currently suggesting that the Alpha ISO is used instead of the
> daily build AT THIS TIME.  Normally you could test daily builds, which are
> found here, http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/daily/, but we are
> currently experiencing a slight problem with the daily builds at this time.
> So, it is recommended, again AT THIS TIME, to test the slightly older Alpha
> 3 build.
>
> A note about testing Pulse Audio and JACK integration:  It is my
> understanding that starting JACK via qjackctl will suspend Pulse Audio by
> running pasuspender.  This was the methodology that allowed JACK to serve
> sound with Pulse Audio installed before Pulse Audio was built with JACK
> support.  I don't know if this is the case, I will test this tonight and
> report what I find.
>
> I have been told by some of the Ubuntu Studio developers that JACK2, which
> uses dbus, will be a far more elegant solution because it will allow Pulse
> Audio and JACK2 to negotiate per device.
>
Scott, thanks for taking the time to dig out these answers and also
for the detailed info on how to get involved in testing. I do want to
become a tester, and the links you gave have saved me a lot of time
digging around to find out how to go about it.

Things like running JACK with pasuspend are the sort of "cleaning up"
and integration work that I was thinking would take some time to work
through. I had been thinking it would be best to wait for this to
happen before starting testing, but I suppose that the sooner testers
start checking, the sooner these things will be found and fixed.

Your comment about jack2 : is that something for the future, or are
you saying that jack 2 is already in Lucid ?

Fritz