On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 18:36, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Well, I think so - after all this trouble I need to do something with it.<G>. > However, I still would like to know why I have to do it as root but until > that gets answered I'll just su - and run jack, then go to another xterm and > run ardour. It would be nice if jack would go to the background The root > requirement bothers me.
Yes, it bothered me too. Paul Davis has some comments about that in the README, and possibly on his web site. The PlanetCCRMA kernel uses a patch called the capabilities patch which grants certain root capabilities to a user. The Planet flow is set up to use a program called jackstart (which we don't have on Gentoo, but I have requested in the past) which then allows you to run as a user but still get realtime capabilities. I'm pretty sure that on my Planet box I can run Ardour as a user this way, but I don't really remember. Paul's pretty lax about this sort of thing. Of course, he'll tell you the program is beta so you shouldn't be surprised if it blows your machine away! (Fortunately that has not happened to the best of my knowledge!) > > Before I do anything with it I'm going back to read the Ardour help and > ProTools reference manual I downloaded so I can figure out how to record! I > tried to record but couldn't get the connections correct so I got nothing. > > Of the others I'll probably also try Audacity as it seemed to work for me > better and I could make sense of it. Rezound just doesn't click with me and > sweep seems to be more an editor than letting you record. I have to record > into a selction but I don't have one when I'm starting new! Yep, they're all different, and thanks to the architecture of Alsa, pretty much every sound card works a little differently. None the less, at least for live audio Audacity is very easy to use. For recording a CD I don't know how to use it, or if it can be used. Cheers, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
