[PlanetCCRMA] Fwd: jack2

[rosea.grammostola]

On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 19:42 +0200, Simon Lewis wrote:
> 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



That nice value is an myth, according to the words of Paul Davis. Is he
not on this list? He uses Fedora afaik

\r










> 
> 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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