[pulseaudio-discuss] Working with PA and jack

[Patrick Shirkey]

Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> 2009/5/27 Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey at boosthardware.com>:
>   
>> Do you or anyone else have a specific reasoning for using only the jackdbus
>> version?  Is is just because the person who wrote the code wrote it to work
>> with jackdbus?
>>
>> Is this something that could be handled in a different way to give legacy
>> jack users this feature?
>>     
>
> I don't use Jack myself (anymore), but from what I understand, this
> feature is tied to jackdbus, because D-Bus is the protocol Jack and PA
> use to communicate with each other. When PA is running and Jack is
> started, Jack can't force PA to release the device, if PA doesn't want
> to cooperate (well, it could use the "kill" command or something...).
> PA cooperates by listening for device release requests using D-Bus, so
> Jack has to use D-Bus too. And apparently jackdbus is the only
> implementation that does that.
>
>   


Hi,

So is the only way to communicate with pulse other than brute force kill 
or "pasuspender" to use the dbus protocol?



Cheers.

Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd