|--==> Eduardo Marcel writes: EM> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 21:00 +0100, Free Ekanayaka wrote: >>I think it's a good idea, at least till a consensus is reached in the >>Linux Audio community about how to manage the situation. >>If did something quite similar with the ALSA Modular Synth package (ams): >> >>http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/demudi/ams/trunk/debian/patches/11ams_launch_script.dpatch?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 >> >>the wrapper detects if jack is running and changes the actual command >>line accordingly.
EM> That's very much what I thought of doing, instead that I initially EM> devised writing this wrapper in C and actually trying to connect EM> to the daemons/drivers using their binary interfaces. EM> Maybe that would be overkill and simply searching the running EM> processes like you did would be sufficient (and much simpler EM> to do). The only disadvantage I see is when the sound server EM> is running on a different host, like it would be the case with EM> ESD or maybe MAS in a XDMCP environment. If we found a way to detect this case too with shell commands, then a script would be enough for all situations. EM> Someone suggested we should limit the solution to jack EM> applications, I think that we should always try to EM> solve the general problem, it's in the Debian tradition... ;) Ok, let's respect the tradition then :) EM> Any thoughts on this? Shell/C program? I'd go for shell, unless C is absolutely necessary. Cheers, Free -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
