Lee Revell wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Further testing reveals that it's been identified as a problem for a while.
https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2008-November/002603.html
Does anyone here know of the reasoning behind not making pulse audio
handle this process by default?
Cheers.
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
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