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From: James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing pulseaudio
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:45:14
Message-Id: loom.20130419T183836-106@post.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing pulseaudio by Kevin Chadwick
1 Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists <at> yahoo.co.uk> writes:
2
3 >
4 > > Another question. Can the installation of PulseAudio and Jack
5 > > coexist? Doable or a constant nightmare?
6 >
7 > There seems to be a a package to allow pulse to utilise jack. However
8 > if you are using jack for the high quality audio benefit then
9 > apparently you have to kill pulseaudio even if it means making a dummy
10 > package on binary distros to fool the system into thinking it is
11 > installed and so not removing lots.
12
13 What I suspected.... timing (latency) increases that from my
14 experiments are sporadic and too unpredictable. jack alone
15 works best.
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18 > I suggested he use Gentoo but I think he saw it as too much work.
19
20 (comment for me?)
21 All I use is gentoo or embedded (state machines) on embeddded hardware. My
22 target is jack on embedded gentoo, but, I've run into resource limitations,
23 so I'm waiting on my new Arm15 dev board in May.....
24
25 Thanks,
26 James

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