[proaudio] Re: [FFADO-user] no mixer on SVN version

[Allan Klinbail <sonofzev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 08:44 +1100, Allan Klinbail wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 08:28 +1100, Allan Klinbail wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 14:54 +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> > > Allan Klinbail wrote:
> > > > I have checked the ebuilds from the gentoo pro-audio overlay.. and I
> > > > also can't see in there why the 2.0.1 version would compile with dbus
> > > > support built in and the SVN version would compile without it.
> > > 
> > > As Arnold mentioned, this is because FFADO 2.0.1 carries its own copy of
> > > libdbus++, wheras recent FFFADO trunk does not have it anymore but relies on
> > > the distribution to have it or the user to install it before he builds FFADO.
> > > 
> > > There should be a message about this and any other missing dependencies when
> > > scons is run.  Gentoo does not provide libdbus++.  If you want the mixer and,
> > > as a precondition for that, dbus support in your FFADO build, then you need to
> > > install libdbus++ yourself.  (I as another Gentoo user have not attempted this
> > > myself yet since the mixer would only be a nice-to-have item for me here.)
> > > 
> > > Regarding CPU usage, the most deciding factor here is the buffer size.  I.e.
> > > check whether your recent tests and older tests weren't made with different
> > > buffer settings.
> 
> 
> 
> Sorry for the empty message.. this effectively was a thanks to both of
> you.. Something to try on the weekend.. 
> 
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Couldn't wait for the weekend. However it looks like my version of
libtool doesn't like libdbus++... 


I'll see what I can do, but don't have that much time to work this
out...