Re: kde4, jackd, phonon and synth apps
On Воскресенье 21 июня 2009 14:50:43 jedd wrote:
> If I don't run jackd before starting kde, then kde is fine, but
> running qjackctl fails to launch jackd. lsof suggests that knotify4
> and plasma are both using/locking the alsa device. They hint that
> it's a gstreamer thing (but I thought *that* was a gnome product) and
> not something for us. Trying to remove gstreamer (apt-get) reveals
> that it is in fact an integral part of kde4.
>
> I gather phonon is meant to make all these problems disappear, but
> also suspect that, as per previous attempts to make problems disappear
> there is a period of extra pain while new problems are experienced,
> and I have this nasty suspicion that's where we're at now.
>
> If some kind soul could point me in the right direction here
> I'd be hugely appreciative. All I really want is to be able to use
> various software synths (amsynth (works okay with alsa),
> traverso (needs jack AFAICT), and some of the dssi apps).
apt-get install phonon-backend-xine
apt-get purge phonon-backend-gstreamer
the only problem with xine I know is it waking up CPU too often,
but that doesn't matter as long as you are not laptop user.
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