On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 16:59 +0200, emanuele ..::www.rumoridifondo.com::.. wrote: > finally i managed to start jack!!! > > but i can only do this as root-user. > and i have to start all the program that require jack as root, too, > because if no they don't see jack. > > why?? Because you have the "Realtime" option enabled, and on most systems whis only works as root. If JACK uses "realtime" by default as a non-root user on Mandriva this is a bug in that distro. You can install a kernel module called the "realtime LSM" to get around this. Lee