On Friday 05 September 2003 11:59, Austin wrote: > On 09/04/2003 07:43:50 PM, Buchan Milne wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Austin wrote: > > > > * Auto start up of JACK. > > > > > > Nobody wants jack running all the time. > > > > No, but it isn't nice for a user to start Ardour from the menu (without > > starting a jackd), and be booted out. One slashdot user thought Ardour > > was buggy/badly packaged because of this, and switched distributions ... > > True. But it IS better than having jack running all the time. It's a > resource hog. And it quits by itself if latency goes too high... then what > are you going to do to restart it transparantly? > > > Can you not have the ardour menu entry run a script that checks if a > > jackd is running (even via pgrep if necessary), and if not, tell the user > > they need to run one? > > I suppose... but what command line options are you going to use? There are > so many. -R (realtime) or not? hw:0 or alsa default? What if the user > wants to use hw:1, like I do? What sampling rate, 44100 or 48000? 24 or > 16 bit? My soundcard requires 24 bit for recoring in full duplex, but > requires 16 bit for recording in half-duplex. > > > (I can write one for you, if you will fix zenity for me ;-)). > > Okay, it's a deal. Although I assumed that when people move my packages to > main and start updating them unbeknownst to be, that I'm no longer > responsible for keeping them functional. How accustomed we've come to > free labour eh? > > Austin > -- > Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc. > Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant > Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto > MandrakeClub Volunteer (www.mandrakeclub.com) > homepage: www.groundstate.ca
Hence the benefit of a gui... Audio SETTINGS (advanced) ------------------ JACK settings: [import] [export] [x] Realtime [settings] sampling rate: [ ] blah blah ALSA settings [import] [export] Driver [ ] blah blah Start JACK automatically for: Ardour [settings] Audacity [settings] Sweep [settings] XMMS [settings] The 'Start JACK automatically for:' section could be configured so that XMMS would load with JACK when Ardour is running, but not otherwise.. As they say, just my 2 cents worth. :o) Ciao, Paul
