Re: [linux-audio-dev] dmix and jack

From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>
Date: Mon Jan 30 2006 - 22:10:17 EET

On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 20:05 +0000, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> voidcreature@email-addr-hidden wrote:
> > Has anyone managed to successfully get jackd talking to dmix?
> >
> > My dmix setup works fix (i run VoIP stuff, artsd, and other assorted junk
> > through it daily).
> >
> > jackd works great when connect to hw:0,0 or to plughw:0,0 (with the warning),
> > but if I point it at my dmix'd "default" it sits there with 100% CPU usage,
> > and doesn't otherwise operate.
> >
> > Does anyone have this combination of jack and dmix working?
> >
>
> It is due to the fact that the alsa programming in jackd has been
> implemented wrongly. The poll revents are not handled correctly.
> This results is OK operation when using hw:0,0, but likely to fail for
> more exotic alsa configurations like dmix.
>

Does this also explain why JACK does not work with the ALSA PCM multi
plugin, unless ALSA is patched?

Lee
Received on Tue Jan 31 00:15:08 2006

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