<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Daniel B. Thurman <<a href="mailto:dant@cdkkt.com">dant@cdkkt.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Kevin Kofler wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Ir wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Running JACK on top of PulseAudio is not supported at this point. (It should theoretically work by enabling JACK's PortAudio backend now that PortAudio works with PulseAudio, but you'd be going through 4 layers JACK->PortAudio->ALSA->PulseAudio, so it isn't quite ideal for JACK's real-time requirements. And I have yet to test this - Fedora's JACK currently isn't built with PortAudio enabled.) </blockquote> Well, I just checked and JACK's PortAudio backend uses the ancient PortAudio v18 API, so at this point it might actually be less work to just fix the native ALSA support to support non-mmap access (and thus PulseAudio) like I already did for PortAudio. (I may have a try at it if I get some time, though I don't expect all that much interest in allowing JACK to work on top of PulseAudio.) And in the upcoming (and API-incompatible - looks like that will be "fun") JACK 2, PortAudio appears to be only supported on Window$ (though it's finally v19). Another possibility may be to write a native PulseAudio driver. For you as a user, the "PulseAudio on top of JACK" setup is certainly the best solution as it works now. It's also the way JACK gets the lowest possible latency. The drawback is that the sounds from most common desktop apps will be routed through both PulseAudio and JACK and that it requires reconfiguration because Fedora is set up for PulseAudio by default, whereas "JACK on top of PulseAudio" would ideally "just work" (but right now it doesn't work at all). Kevin Kofler </blockquote> Bummer. So in a nutshell, I cannot use RoseGarden until all of these issues (PA) are fixed/resolved, right? I could perhaps disable PA and enable JACK to use RG, but then might run into problems trying to get PA back, probably not worth the hassle. I think I will pass for now. I was trying to find a MIDI player that works and kmid just does not work (cannot figure it out), so... I think I will postpone it for now. </blockquote><div> I am not going into this discussion, but I have been using rosegarden with jack in F10 for quite some time with no problem at all, and a very low latency. qjackctl - qsynth - rosegarden This is the contents of my ~/.jackdrc /usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -r44100 -p128 -n2 -D -C/dev/dsp -Phw:0 -i2 -o2 </div></div> -- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ