On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:06:55 +0200 Matthias Mann <matthia...@jesus.de> wrote:
> > I vaguely remember that you have to add your user ID to "audio" group > > or something like this. > > > > The point is that increasing priority normally requires root > > privileges, and in order to enable doing this by non-root that group > > was created. > > > > Regards, > > Sergei. > > Hi Sergei. Yes this helps a bit. Just now i've tried to run jackd -R [...] as > root and it worked :-) > > But then the normal user can't use jackd und it's surely not a good idea > to run jackd as root. I only did this for testing. > > And now, what should i do? I have the group audio and the normal user > is a member of group audio since a long time. But jackd doesn't run in > realtime for this user. What's going wrong here? > > Best regards, > Matthias > I've re-found this article: http://en.opensuse.org/JackLab/Assigning_real-time_priorities_with_PAM - it's for SUSE, maybe you'll be able to figure out how to do the same for your distro (Debian ?). PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module) does the job of allowing non-root user to increase audio priority. Regards, Sergei. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
