On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:38:28PM +0100, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote: > Well, there have been reports about xruns. And, remember the resent > discussion with the wine-guy that couldn't get it to run reliable without > being root or have the capabilities patch?
Excerpt from the jack FAQ: """ Jack requires real-time scheduling (SCHED_FIFO) for reliable, dropout-free operation, which the vanilla Linux kernel does not adequately support. Andrew Morton's low-latency patches are currently the most functional way to add soft-RT scheduling to Linux... However, special privileges are required to enable low-latency operation, which can be acquired in two ways. The first option is to run jackd as root in real-time mode... A newer way to do things ... requires processes to be able to grant their privileges to other processes using POSIX 1.e capabilities. """ http://jackit.sourceforge.net/docs/faq.php -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com Look! Up in the sky! It's TURTLE ZIRO! (courtesy of isometric.spaceninja.com)
