Re: [LAU] pulseaudio issues [was Re: jackdbus issues: a workaround ? (Was: more jack/qjackctl madness)]

From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>
Date: Tue May 19 2009 - 06:29:17 EEST

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Patrick Shirkey
<pshirkey@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> I have got a problem with pulseaudio and jack not playing together. More
> importantly I have got a problem with pulseaudio being the default sound
> server and not having automated functionality to connect with jack. If
> after 10 years of running Linux audio, I have issues with getting
> pulseaudio to play nicely then pulseaudio is failing to meet it's main
> objective of making things easy for desktop users.
>
> I would really like to encourage the pulseaudio people who are reading
> here to make pulse gracefully and automatically cede control to jack and
> then auto configure itself as a jack interface.

Pulse includes "pasuspender" to handle this use case. From the man page:

       pasuspender is a tool that can be used to tell a local
PulseAudio sound server to temporarily suspend access to the audio
devices, to allow other applications access them directly. pasuspender
will suspend access to the audio devices, fork a child process,
       and when the child process terminates, resume access again.

I guess this should be integrated into qjackctl & friends.

Lee
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