Re: [LAU] debian wheezy vs pulseaudio vs jackdbus

From: david <gnome@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Tue Oct 30 2012 - 19:22:31 EET

On 10/29/2012 06:51 PM, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>
> On Tue, October 30, 2012 3:42 pm, david wrote:
>> On 10/29/2012 02:12 PM, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, October 30, 2012 10:11 am, Len Ovens wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, October 29, 2012 2:45 pm, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, October 30, 2012 8:35 am, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does anyone know whats going on with pulseaudio-module-jackdbus in
>>>>>> Debian
>>>>>> Wheezy?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On my system the jackdbus module doesn't exist in the repos and the
>>>>>> result
>>>>>> is that pulseaudio doesn't play nice with jack.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I can see that jackd2 was compiled with dbus support so not sure
>>>>>> what's
>>>>>> going on with the missing pulse module.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I can see with pacmd list-modules that module-jackdbus-connect is
>>>>> loaded
>>>>> so the module must be compiled into pulse directly.
>>>>>
>>>>> So any thoughts on why the module is not kicking in?
>>>>
>>>> On ubuntu (which normally uses debian src packages), The module name is
>>>> module-jackdbus-detect. I don't think I have seen a module called
>>>> module-jackdbus-connect even on the pulse site.
>>>> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Modules#JACK_Connectivity
>>>>
>>>
>>> You got the gist...
>>>
>>>> Even if jackd comes with dbus support, it can be started without. so
>>>> use
>>>> ps x or similar to check that the running app is jackdbus and not
>>>> jackd.
>>>
>>> There is no jackdbus on debian wheezy, just "jackd" or "jackd2".
>>>
>>>> If you are using qjackctl there is a checkbox under misc "Enable D-Bus
>>>> interface" that has to be checked.
>>>>
>>>
>>> That helps which means that debian wheezy has support for pulseaudio,
>>> module-jackdbus-detect and jackd2 by default but there is still an
>>> error:
>>>
>>> ====
>>> Failed to acquire device name : Audio0 error : Method "RequestRelease"
>>> with signature "i" on interface "org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1" doesn't
>>> exist
>>> Audio device hw:0 cannot be acquired...
>>> ====
>>>
>>> What I find completely bizarre is that the top 5 hits on google for this
>>> error have people recommending to disable pulseaudio or use an alternate
>>> method to connect. It seems people have known about this issue for a
>>> while
>>> and been ignoring it or waiting for someone else to figure it out.
>>
>> Removing PulseAudio works for me!
>>
>
> It seems like a regression to me and it's not helping people who want to
> use both pulseaudio and jack together.
>
> For most professionals it's completely unnecessary to remove pulse as jack
> can run on a second "pro" soundcard. This issue is only a headache when
> the user has only one sound card to work with and given that is the
> majority of n00b or amateur users it makes sense for pulse and jack to
> work well together.

Well, I'm one of those weird people who see *no need whatever* for
PulseAudio. Like Linux needs Yet Another Sound Server to confuse people
and dilute developer resources ...

-- 
David
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