[Ardour-Users] What's the latest version of Ardour I can build with 0.103 jack?

[Paul Davis]

On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 12:00 +0100, John Rigg wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 02:41:13PM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:
> > I've run into this brick wall:
> > 
> > http://tracker.ardour.org/view.php?id=2274
> > 
> > What's the latest version of Ardour that will build and run with 0.103 JACK?
> 
> I'm running 2.4.1 with 0.103 on my Debian Etch system.
> Caveat: I'm not using -rt kernel as I've never been able to get
> jackd to run with it on my hardware (dual Opteron 248), so I'm
> using vanilla 2.6.20 kernel with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y.
> 
> > I can't risk the stability of the audio system by changing to a newer
> > jackd that might introduce a whole bunch of bew problems or break other
> > audio apps.
> > 
> > Alternately, what's the most recent STABLE version of JACK available?
> > I see that 0.109.2 is out, but I don't see that it fixes the wait + 1
> > problem with certain Linux kernels (like the one I have) discussed on 
> > the JACK list.
> 
> I tried 0.109.2 but clients kept zombifying at random times. That's
> why I reverted to 0.103, which is stable.

recent SVN (0.112.0) is now pretty good. it could use more testing. it
certainly avoids the behaviour that crept in between 0.106 and 0.109. i
hope to do a release after some more testing.