Toby Smithe wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 4:44 PM, raydar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I discovered in the Ubuntu forums that running an app as an argument to >> "aoss" is a/the way to invoke alsa-oss, so I typed >> >> aoss gtick >> >> in a terminal, got >> >> /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy >> >> and also tried having Gtick use /dev/dsp1 after launching Gtick via >> aoss, but there was no difference from starting Gtick the normal way & >> using /dev/dsp1 as before (no error, but no output). >> >> So, if the problem is Jack hogging /dev/dsp, and if /dev/dsp1 is not >> being hogged but it's output isn't "getting through," is there a way I >> can route /dev/dsp1's output to Jack's input so that it all goes out >> /dev/dsp? >> > > You wouldn't want to do this anyway, because latency would be > horrible. The pipeline would go something like: > > Gtick -> aoss -> OSS-JACK router thingy (which doesn't exist) -> JACK -> ALSA > > I hate ALSA and dmix: dmix is a userspace library plug-in, and not at > kernel level, so not only do some apps not conform to it (they don't > /have/ to link against that library), it has latency problems too. I > welcome the day when the newly open-sourced OSS4, and its lovely > kernel-level vmix virtual mixer, replace ALSA and dmix forever. OSS is > a much nicer sound system anyway, even if it did betray us by closing > up last decade. > > My suggestion is to give up on Gtick if you're intent on using JACK. > If you're into overkill, you could have Hydrogen give you a beat to > the right BPM, but I'm sure there are other applications that I > haven't heard of that are more suitable. > >
I'm open to suggestions on this one. gtick was a nice stand-alone app. If some knows of one of one without this issue that would be great. -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
