I installed jack (jack-audio-connection-kit), and configured it, as far as I can tell, correctly. At least I can get multiple audio streams multiplexed together.
However, the performance leaves something to be desired: it is *extremely* prone to skipping, if my system is under any kind of load. For example, doing an "emerge search <package>" will usually cause my XMMS playback to skip. *Moving a window* will almost always cause a skip---not just skip, but freeze for the whole time the window is being moved. Even worse, whenever the screensaver comes on, the player skips. And while the screensaver is active, the music playback will regularly skip every couple seconds. The kicker? My screensaver is just a blank screen! I'd like to think that my system is powerful enough to do "normal" desktop use without skipping: Athlon XP 2500, 1 GB RAM. Any thoughts as to why the jack performance is so shoddy? Thanks! Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
