[pulseaudio-discuss] Working with PA and jack

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 19.05.09 11:37, Patrick Shirkey (pshirkey at boosthardware.com) wrote:

> Hi,
>
> After some discussion on the LAU lists over the past couple of years
> it would appear their is a usability issue that is giving PA a bad
> reputation as a pita.
>
> I believe it boils down to this previously posted problem.
>
> https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2008-November/002603.html
>
> I would like to get some feedback on why exactly PA is not currently
> able to autoreconfigure itself to play nicely with jack out of the
> box.

Recent PA versions do just that. If you have a recent dbus'ified
version of JACK and PA 0.9.15 then PA will give up access to the
device when JACK asks for it and take it back afterwards. JACK is king
and PA obeys.

Lennart

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