On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Len Ovens <len@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
> On Sun, October 28, 2012 1:18 pm, Brett McCoy wrote:
> > Jack & PA work together fine under UbuntuStudio 12.04, using the jack
> > plugin for PA. You can use Gnome or any other interface for it (I use
> > xfce myself), they are independent of whatever desktop environment you
> > use. Nothing is going to stop a user from killing either Jack or PA,
> > though, as these are not typically run as root for a user session.
>
> No they are not run as root normally. Pulse can be but I am not sure about
> jack... or rather I am not sure what problems would be encountered.
> Running pulse as system is not recommended unless more than one user may
> be logged in at once that will both need sound (two x-sessions) because
> there is a loss of useability (some features go away).
>
> There are some things that could happen to pulse that would make it work a
> lot better with Jack... when pulse finds out jack is taking away one of
> it's hardware ports, it would be really nice if pulse transferred all it's
> settings for that port to the jack sink/source ports.
i am not sure that the d-bus based reservation scheme identifies who is
asking to take control. i could be wrong.
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