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| author | Andrew Antle <andrew.antle@gmail.com> | 2010-07-20 08:37:06 -0500 |
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| committer | Erik Hanson <erik@slackbuilds.org> | 2010-07-21 01:43:05 -0500 |
| commit | 43f998d8451681da8e8b27dcd96b4684430ff45e (patch) | |
| tree | 5cbc38132603cc710fffa1ffb2219bb79b3b084f /audio/jack-audio-connection-kit | |
| parent | af33efe208617a682b37e56150062c8e310ba2aa (diff) | |
audio/jack-audio-connection-kit: README cleanup
Signed-off-by: Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'audio/jack-audio-connection-kit')
| -rw-r--r-- | audio/jack-audio-connection-kit/README | 19 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/audio/jack-audio-connection-kit/README b/audio/jack-audio-connection-kit/README index d8f932733e7d7..c8db04814b123 100644 --- a/audio/jack-audio-connection-kit/README +++ b/audio/jack-audio-connection-kit/README @@ -1,20 +1,19 @@ -JACK is a low-latency audio server, written primarily for Linux. It can +JACK is a low-latency audio server written primarily for Linux. It can connect a number of different applications to an audio device, as well as allow them to share audio among themselves. Its clients can run in their own processes (ie. as a normal application) or they can run within a JACK server instance (i.e. as a "plugin"). -jackd has to run with realtime priviledges. One way to do this on Slackware -would be to use set_rlimits. Since 12.2 there's another way. If you have -a filesystem that supports posix capabilities (reiserfs does not), you -can grant jackd the rights to run in realtime mode, even when started as -normal user with the following command: +jackd has to run with realtime privileges. One way to do this on Slackware +would be to use set_rlimits. Since 12.2 there's another way - if you have +a filesystem that supports posix capabilities (reiserfs does not), you can +grant jackd the rights to run in realtime mode, even when started as a normal +user, with the following command: setcap cap_ipc_lock,cap_sys_nice=ep /usr/bin/jackd If you use qjackctl to start jack, it will need the same capabilities set -to be able to start jack as non-root user. You can use the same command -just with 'qjackctl' instead of 'jackd' +to be able to start jack as non-root user. You can use the same command +with 'qjackctl' instead of 'jackd' -jack optionally uses libsndfile, libffado and celt, which are all available -at SlackBuilds.org. +Optional dependencies are libsndfile, libffado, and celt. |