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diff --git a/audio/jack-audio-connection-kit/README b/audio/jack-audio-connection-kit/README index d8f932733e..c8db04814b 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. |