How will Pulse Audio change things for me?

[hollunder at gmx.at]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:23:54 +0000
"Toby Smithe" <tsmithe at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:46 AM,  <hollunder at gmx.at> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:59:41 +0000
> >  "Toby Smithe" <tsmithe at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> >  > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 8:54 PM,  <hollunder at gmx.at> wrote:
> >  > >  Pulseaudio should shut down the moment you start jack (if
> >  > > they use the same device) and thus it shouldn't affect you if
> >  > > you use jack.
> >  >
> >  > If you use qjackctl (JACK Control), it does, no?
> >  >
> >  I haven't tried it yet, I think it doesn't shut down if jack and
> > pulse audio are running on different interfaces. Maybe I should
> > have said interface instead of device previously.
> 
> Well, looking at the wrapper script at /usr/bin/qjackctl, if
> pulseaudio is running and pasuspender is installed,
> /usr/bin/qjackctl.bin is called via the latter, which will disable
> Pulse for the duration of the process, regardless of what Pulse is
> doing, which card it is accessing, etc. A very hacky solution, but
> functional(ish).
> 
Well, I tried it on my test system (upgraded from alpha4) with an pci
card for PA and an usb device for jack, and PA doesn't shut down. Maybe
it's an update-related-problem. It is no problem to me however.

I'll do a fresh install once hardy is released. We'll see if it's still
the same then.

Regards,
	Philipp