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diff --git a/audio/jack-audio-connection-kit/README b/audio/jack-audio-connection-kit/README index 98f744922127e..ad26ef868f1a3 100644 --- a/audio/jack-audio-connection-kit/README +++ b/audio/jack-audio-connection-kit/README @@ -15,4 +15,12 @@ If you don't accept the script's default, you'll need to have the appropriate mountpoint set up in fstab and mounted, but a discussion of how to do that is outside the scope of this document. +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, though experimental. 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: + + setcap cap_sys_nice=ep /usr/bin/jackd + jack optionally uses libsndfile which is also available at SlackBuilds.org. |