[PlanetCCRMA] FC2.1vP9 - jackstart just quits...

Mark Knecht markknecht@comcast.net
Thu Sep 30 13:55:02 2004


On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 01:14, Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
> Hello Mark,
> 
> >
> >     Can you or anyone else point me toward the artsd configuration in
> > Linux that tells it to use Alsa. Little Arts warning sounds are getting
> > played and blocking Alsa at times, or at least blocking Jack. Not sure
> > why, but I kill the artsd process and then Jack runs, so I assume arts
> > has grabbed the hardware.
> >
> 
> Did you know that on KDE 3.3, or latest artsd, there's already JACK
> support? I've been running it quite happily as default on my SUSE 9.1 Box,
> provided some appropriate scripting on qjackctl.
> 
> It's nice and confortable to have all KDE multimedia audio output now
> being routed through the JACK graph now.
> 
> Cheers.

I did not know this. I'll have to check it out a bit.

I'm curious how you get sound started this way. Wouldn't you have to
start Jack before you start KDE? How would you handle the need for
changing latencies in Jack? Can I change those on the flow with KDE
running?

Thanks for the info..

cheers,
Mark