[pulseaudio-discuss] Handling JACK driver switching

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 21:39 +0000, Nathan Hulse wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was hoping someone could offer a little advice in order to gracefully
> handle switching the JACK driver during suspend/resume.
> 
> I have created a pm hook that uses jack_control to switch from the firewire
> to the dummy driver before suspend and the switch back the firewire driver
> on resume. The script also unloads/loads firewire_ohci in the interim to
> reset my Aureon Firewire. It runs after the PulseAudio hook before the
> system suspends.
> 
> This is the most graceful way I have found of handling suspend/resume for
> jackd and my card. However, when I change the driver to dummy and back to
> firewire, the PulseAudio JACK sink ceases to produce output. Bear with me,
> for I understand not the technicalities! I know I could just force Pulse to
> respawn, but is there a less crude solution I could employ?

Are pulseaudio's ports in jack connected anywhere after the backend
switch?

-- 
Tanu