andrea mariquelli wrote: > Dear Linux fellows, > Could I ask you something about ASUS EEE and Supercollider3? > i have tried to install supercollider on my 701 xandros advanced > but something doesn't work, this is the screen of the console: > > eeepc-user:/root> 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" > > back from read, ret = 1 errno == Success > jackstart: could not give capabilities: Operation not permitted > jackd 0.101.1 > Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others. > jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY > This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it > under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details > > JACK compiled with System V SHM support. > `default' server already active > > what's the meaning of this? > > Thanks a lot! > yours > lorenzo, coventry, UK > You need a 'realtime' kernel. On debian based systems, these are kernel packages named something like 'linux-image-2.6.18-rt'. You can also compile your own but getting a prebuilt one is much easier. See here: http://tapas.affenbande.org/wordpress/?page_id=73 and here: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Low_latency_howto for more info on what realtime scheduling is and how to set it up on a standard linux distro (may be harder in EEE-Xandros) andy _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user