Kevin Cosgrove <kevinc@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 15 February 2005 at 10:25, Timo <timo.sivula@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I did not know that was possible. Don't you have to be root to start >> Jack in realtime with anything else but jackstart with a 2.4 kernel? > > Ya know, I probably get away with using jackd-realtime as non-root > because I've added the realcap module to my kernel and start that > module giving realtime permission to users belonging to the "audio" > group. Of course, I added myself to the "audio" group. This works > very nicely. There's some stuff in the realtime FAQs about how to > deal with the realcap module. FWIW, I did all this on Mandrake 10.1 > starting with the 2.6.7 multimedia kernel source RPM from the > contribs. I think jackd-realtime must be some kind of mandrake script. It does not come with the JACK sources. If you use the realtime LSM on 2.6, all you need is `jackd'. http://jackit.sourceforge.net/docs/faq.php#a53 (That FAQ needs updating. The most recent realtime-lsm version no longer supports the `allcaps=1' option.) -- joq
