On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 05:16:22PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > but for Suse and Debian based distros JACK2 can't be simply compiled > and installed while the package or all files of the package aren't > removed,
There's jack2 in Debian experimental, and you're free to download the package source: http://packages.debian.org/source/experimental/jack-audio-connection-kit You then say dpkg-source -x *.dsc and run debuild in the directory. Feel free to modify debian/rules, so you can add all the flags that you want. I've disabled the jackdbus package at the moment, because I have yet to try it myself and get the big picture. (to be honest, I'm not entirely sure there's consensus about jackdbus, but I don't want to re-start this lengthy discussion again) > Oops, right now I noticed that there's a package called "jackdbus" for Which is empty, as you've already shown. That was one of the reasons why I've disabled it for now in the experimental package. I must confess I know almost nothing about jackdbus. All I know is that it can talk to pulseaudio to get the soundcard back, which, on the other hand, is completely unimportant to usual studio setups where you have a cheap (mainboard) system card and the real, unused recording card. Given that it's unused, I don't have to ask anybody about releasing it, so simply starting jackd does the trick. Feel free to educate me. ;) PS: For the occasional jackd-on-my-builtin-laptop-card-user, it would be sufficient to run jackd *on top* of pulseaudio and no cards are handed over back and forth. Latency on these chips is crap anyway, real work beyond tweaking some volume curves isn't done, so it's all about running jackd *somehow* to get the inter-app-routing. I suggest to add a PA backend for jackd, that is, jackd -d pulse. Steinberg does this on Win32, you can run your Cubase with poor latency on top of the ordinary D3D- or MME API. Though nobody would ever use this for recording or any other decent work, it gives you the chance of running the app, make small changes and export a mixdown. That's roughly the level one could expect from a builtin soundcard, for everything else, additional audio gear would be used. I think pleasing the desktop user who insists to run jackd on his el cheapo card could be achieved with this jack-on-PA approach. This would remove the need for passing access to sound hardware between PA and jackd. Just my €0.02 -- mail: [email protected] http://adi.thur.de PGP/GPG: key via keyserver _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
