Hi experts and geniuses. Please be gentle with a newbie who has been using mandrake linux for a couple of years, but has staid clear of recompiling kernels etc, and just been a happy user. Up until now I've been using windows as my DAW platform, having a degree in sound engineering and being a teacher at a teachers training college. Having followed the progress of the music-apps pretty closely and finally found some time, I decided to see if I might get my feet wet with linux as a DAW. Since I'm familiar with mandrake and found THAC's rpms(http://rpm.nyvalls.se/sound9.1.html) I decided to go that route. I've been lurking on this forum for a couple of months now, and hope to get some help here in the process. I got me a new harddisk for my DAW machine so that I wouldn't loose anything. Installed Mandrake 9.1 (just the basic stuff) Then I installed ardour, jack and the kernel-multimedia packages from THAC. I then tried to start jack with 'jackstart -d alsa -d hw:0' and got the following response: "jackstart: cannot get realtime capabilities, current capabilities are: =ep cap_setpcap-ep probably running under a kernel with capabilities disabled, a suitable kernel would have printed something like "=eip" I did a search on the google, and found out that someone had asked the same thing on this list, but the answer was: "look in the faq" - which I then did. And the faq say "recompile". I thought the idea of rpms was that I didn't have to recompile - but I'm probably wrong. I just want to make sure before i jump onto something which I'd rather not do - because it scares me... (I'm a teacher and hobby sound engineer, not a linux wizard, but I'd like to learn) So do I have to recompile? Another thing: I have the staudio dsp24 cport soundcard which was recognised and everything, but if anyone has a link or some tips on how to use this in the most effective way under linux I'd be very happy! In windows we have a virtual patchbay for attaching and rerouting the different ins and outs. How do I do this in linux? I'd be very grateful for all help! Best regards Ketil Thorgersen
