was: jackd crash; now: buggy Linux sound rants

[wfdudley]

On 4/10/11, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-04-10 at 20:26 -0400, wfdudley wrote:
>> I've given up on expecting bugs to be fixed in my lifetime
>

Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> made some excellent points about
unix advocacy and bug fixing and tools.

> - learn how to program for Linux

I tried to fix that bug in audacity, as I'm a C programmer.  But the
bug is a result
of a race condition in the software and was more complicated than I was capable
of fixing on my own.  I did offer some C patches for a couple of other features;
they were rejected because the features ALREADY EXISTED; however, there
was NO DOCUMENTATION of them so there was no way to know that I was
WASTING my time.  I'm not all that happy with the audacity developers.

> - win over other people to use Linux

I do plenty of Linux advocacy, and occasionally win a convert, but mostly, that,
too, is a waste of time.

> [Linux] doesn't make sense for audio/MIDI workstations all the times.

And as far as "right tool for the right job"; I won't use Windows,
period.  If I can't
do it in Linux, then it doesn't need doing.  I do run FreeBSD machines also, but
since most of the application software is the same, there isn't a
great difference
there.
>
>> I did nuke PA from my laptop, as it won't work with Skype.  I did it by
>> renaming a binary somewhere. crude but effective.
>
> No unwanted side-effect?

Yes, total loss of volume control.  But if I wanted to run Skype, I didn't see
a choice.  Fortunately I don't use that laptop for entertainment, so
lack of audio
volume control was not a show stopper.

Bill
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