[pulseaudio-discuss] Ubuntu Hardy, Pulseaudio and Jack

rosea grammostola rosea.grammostola at gmail.com
Mon May 25 11:47:41 PDT 2009


On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net>wrote:

> On Sun, 24.05.09 00:57, rosea grammostola (rosea.grammostola at gmail.com)
> wrote:
>
> > Ok so not running both at the same time. But how do you stop pulseaudio
> from
> > running and restart it after you used JACK?
>
> Newer PA and JACK versions cooperate in this way
> automatically. If you fire up JACK PA will go out of the way for that
> device. And after JACK is done PA takes the device back. JACK is king
> and PA will comply.
>
> In older versions you can use a tool like "pasuspender". It will
> suspend PA's access to the audio devices temporarily as long as child
> process is running. If you make that child process JACK you have a
> neat way to make JACK and PA not fight for device access.
>
> A more brutal way is to stop PA with "pulseaudio -k" before you run
> JACK and then start PA with "pulseaudio -D" afterwards. But that
> probably won't work that nicely since PA is configured to autospawn in
> most cases these days -- which you can disable however by editing
> client.conf.
>
>
Ok I start qjackctl or jackd with

pasuspender qjackctl



BTW in Debian you have the package: pulseaudio-module-jack
http://packages.debian.org/nl/lenny/pulseaudio-module-jack

What is the aim of that package and how to use it (Ubuntu doesn t seems to
have that package)?

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