On 18/01/16 14:11, Brad Campbell wrote: > On 18/01/16 02:23, Steve Litt wrote: > >> In all fairness, I've found few softwares as difficult to install and >> get right as Jack. In fact, of the five times I've tried to install it >> on various distros, I've succeeded zero times. >> >> So I'd settle for Pulse (or ALSA or OSS) over Jack simply because I can >> actually get those installed. > > > Jack is one of those interesting cases. That you could not get it to > work indicates you don't need it. If you needed it then you'd figure it > out. If you need Jack it's because any of the other 'sound systems' are > useless to you. Real time (ie multi-track studio work) is one of those > instances (actually it's the only one I can think of). > > Interestingly, installing Jack for me on Debian systems was a matter of > download, compile, install and run. No frustration required. Probably > because the hardware and drivers I was using was the sort of stuff Jack > was written for. > I've usually deployed it by `apt-get install jackd1` or `apt-get install jackd2`
But Wheezy was the last one I' deployed it to... But I've had no issues apart from having to force alsa to set the card order and setting up multi-card configurations is a bit painful. -- Daniel Reurich Centurion Computer Technology (2005) Ltd. 021 797 722
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