Re: 1.0.0 Requirements, Integration of sound deamon (JACK)

[Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey@boosthardware.com>]

David Sankel wrote:
>>Have you used JACK?
>>
>>AFAIK it definitely requires a pcm. You may have
>>used it on hardware 
>>that supports multiopen which would explain what you
>>have observed.
> 
> 
> Yes, I have used jack.  I meant that it doesn't open
> the sound device when it is not being used by a host application.
> 

I'm pretty sure it does. In order to run it needs to claim a pcm device 
(or multiple devices as specified in an .asoundrc). I just tested that 
by starting jackd and then trying to start alsaplayer on the same device 
and jackd blocks alsaplayer until it is shutdown then alsaplayer will start.




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