[PlanetCCRMA] Fwd: jack2

[Simon Lewis]

Hi Fernando

I have been using Jack2 for many months with the default planetccrma 
settings on fc12 x86-64 - never had any problems. Admittedly pulse-audio 
was deliberately removed on this and the previous fc11 installation.

## Automatically appended by the Planet CCRMA jack-audio-connection-kit
* - rtprio 99
* - memlock 4194304
* - nice -10

Simon


Am 19.04.2010 04:33, schrieb Fernando Lopez-Lezcano:
> On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 15:39 -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>    
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Currently there is a cross-distro discussion about migrating to jack2
>> permanently.
>>
>> Is there anyone who would object this change? Anyone not happy with jack2?
>>      
> No objections on my part. I have been using jack2 exclusively for quite
> a while for most of the reasons outlined below. It would seem to me it
> has been mature and usable for a while.
>
> -- Fernando
>
>
>    
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Andy Shevchenko
>> Date: Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:02 PM
>> Subject: Re: jack2
>> To: fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>      
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> Nowadays the jack project has two branches - old jack (1) branch with
>>> version 0.116.2 and new one called jack2 version 1.9.3.
>>> I'd like to gather opinions and suggestions about applying new version for F13.
>>> Please, share your thoughts!
>>> Thank you.
>>>        
>> Recently I have received following letters:
>>
>>
>> ---------- message ----------
>> From: Adrian Knoth
>> Date: Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:55 PM
>> Subject: Coordinated jackd upgrade
>> To: andy.shevchenko
>>
>> Hi Andy!
>>
>> I'm the Debian maintainer for jackd, ardour, ffado, qjackctl and some
>> more packages related to pro-audio.
>>
>> After a long discussion, the Debian Multimedia Team decided to switch to
>> jackd2 in squeeze, our upcoming release.
>>
>> We already coordinated with Ubuntu, they'll also switch ASAP, though
>> it's too late for their soon to be released Lucid.
>>
>> We also contacted Opensuse (yesterday, answer pending), and now Fedora.
>> The idea is to have all major Linux distros using the same jackd
>> version, so users don't experience different levels of functionality
>> depending on the distro they use, non-applicable recipes from the
>> Internet, missing features and so on.
>>
>> The rationale for our switch to jackd2:
>>
>>   * ABI-compatible drop-in replacement for jackd1, so no need to change
>>     or recompile any application
>>
>>   * SMP support. jackd1 can only use one processor/core
>>
>>   * soundcard reservation. jackd2 can talk to pulseaudio via DBUS to
>>     acquire the soundcard, so no need to manually shutdown or rip off
>>     PA when a user wants to start jackd.
>>
>>   * support for ladish session manager (http://ladish.org)
>>
>>
>> In general: more features, more everything. The Fedora-derived pro-audio
>> CCRMA distro uses jackd2, the Gentoo pro-audio overlay uses jackd2,
>> Ubuntu-Studio64 uses it and so on and so on...
>>
>>
>> We have our jackd2 package almost ready, so if you like, we can send you
>> a tarball if this helps.
>>
>> How do you feel about this coordinated approach?
>>
>>
>> Cheerio
>>
>>
>> ---------- message ----------
>> From: Adrian Knoth
>> Date: Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:16 PM
>> Subject: Re: Coordinated jackd upgrade
>> To: Andy Shevchenko
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 03:02:08PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>>      
>>>> Hi Andy!
>>>>          
>>> Because this is private message I would like to ask about possibility
>>> to forward this mail to the fedora-devel@ mailing list.
>>>        
>> Of course, feel free to forward and if need be CC me, just in case you
>> want me to reply to something... this also holds true for this mail.
>>
>>
>> I see you've been discussing the very same problems. ;) Here are some
>> decisions we made:
>>
>>   * only one package, that is, we ship jackd2, not jackd1+jackd2.
>>     There's no need for two packages, jackd1<->jackd2 are drop-in
>>     replacements to each other. Consequently, we avoid virtual packages.
>>
>>   * Realtime permissions: our jackd package creates the file
>>     /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf with the following content:
>>
>>     @audio   -  rtprio     95
>>     @audio   -  memlock    unlimited
>>
>>
>> The jackd2 package is missing manpages. For a start, we'll simply copy
>> them from jackd1, but let me talk to upstream. This needs to be solved
>> in jackd2 anyway.
>>      
>
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