Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: linux-audio-dev Digest, Vol 2, Issue 24

2003-11-16 Thread Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 08:02, Paul Davis wrote: > >> I've been thinking about ways to use this feature to improve and > >> simplify the current security situation for Linux audio. No > >> conclusions, but here are some thoughts for discussion: > >> > >> (1) There should a simple way for the sysad

[linux-audio-dev] Re: [Jackit-devel] Re: POSIX caps/realtime/root processes

2003-11-16 Thread Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano
> Paul Davis: > > >Since mainstream capabilities support seems always to be somewhere > > >over the horizon, I am interested in the patch Paul and Steve > > >mentioned. IIUC, it defines a control file in /proc which, if > > >enabled, allows any process access to scheduling and memory locking > > >

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: linux-audio-dev Digest, Vol 2, Issue 24

2003-11-16 Thread Jack O'Quin
> Jack O'Quin writes: > > One of the things I like about the `audio' group approach is that > > it is easy to administer and simple to verify who has access to > > those privileges. martin rumori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i think, that's a clean solution. to be able to distinguish between

Re: [linux-audio-dev] JACK tutorial

2003-11-16 Thread Paul Brossier
Thanks for this tut. Just one thought : the include statements in your code snipnets do not appear correctly because of the <>. You could pass them through vim to take care of the html characters (and add some color :). $ vim +f +"syntax on" +"so $VIMRUNTIME/syntax/2html.vim" +"wq" +"q" *.c ch

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [PATCH] oss driver for jack 0.90.0 - the actual patch :)

2003-11-16 Thread Paul Davis
>Looks like I forgot to attach the patch... i don't think this patch isn't ready to be added to CVS yet: 1) the null cycle callback is wrong. it will generate random noise, and should instead generate silence. 2) the buffer size callback is wrong. you have to stop the hardware,

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [PATCH] oss support for jack [UPDATE]

2003-11-16 Thread Jack O'Quin
Jussi Laako <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does PortAudio support 24/32 bit formats and more than 2 channels or > samplerates over 48 kHz? All my experience is with my home system, which runs ALSA drivers using the OSS emulation interfaces. I suspect things would probably work differently using

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: linux-audio-dev Digest, Vol 2, Issue 24

2003-11-16 Thread martin rumori
> Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > (4) Let the user that is currently physical logged in to the machine > > get realtime privileges. Jack O'Quin writes: > It does seem difficult within the context of X11 to prove that a user > is actually local to the machine. Some p

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: linux-audio-dev Digest, Vol 2, Issue 24

2003-11-16 Thread Jack O'Quin
Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What about this one: > > (4) Let the user that is currently physical logged in to the machine > get realtime privileges. Good idea. I don't know enough about the 2.6 security model to say how one might go about implementing that. In som

[linux-audio-dev] [PATCH] oss driver for jack 0.90.0 - the actual patch :)

2003-11-16 Thread Jussi Laako
Looks like I forgot to attach the patch... -- Jussi Laako <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- jack-audio-connection-kit-0.90.0/configure.in 2003-11-16 00:39:16.0 +0200 +++ jackit.mod/configure.in 2003-11-16 22:50:17.0 +0200 @@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ JACK_CORE_CFLAGS="-I\$(top_srcdir)

[linux-audio-dev] [PATCH] oss driver for jack 0.90.0

2003-11-16 Thread Jussi Laako
Attached is a patch to add OSS audio driver support to the jack-audio-connection-kit 0.90.0. This is a first quick hack of 0.80.0 driver to 0.90.0, but better one is coming.. Apply patch and run "autoreconf --force --install" to regenerate configure stuff. RPMs for RedHat 9 and source .tar.gz is

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Demolition results, attention LADSPA developers

2003-11-16 Thread Steve Harris
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 11:30:36 +, Mike Rawes wrote: > > ERROR: port 0 is LOGARITHMIC but LowerBound isn't positive > > Is this really an error? Dealing with the aymptote is trivial, and needs > to be done anyway if a host allows the user to change the range hints. Well, LOGARITHMIC was neve

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: linux-audio-dev Digest, Vol 2, Issue 24

2003-11-16 Thread Paul Davis
>> I've been thinking about ways to use this feature to improve and >> simplify the current security situation for Linux audio. No >> conclusions, but here are some thoughts for discussion: >> >> (1) There should a simple way for the sysadmin to reliably disallow [ .. ] >> (2) Using sysctl,

[linux-audio-dev] Re: linux-audio-dev Digest, Vol 2, Issue 24

2003-11-16 Thread Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen
"Jack O'Quin": > > I've been thinking about ways to use this feature to improve and > simplify the current security situation for Linux audio. No > conclusions, but here are some thoughts for discussion: > > (1) There should a simple way for the sysadmin to reliably disallow > realtime privi

[linux-audio-dev] Re: POSIX caps/realtime/root processes

2003-11-16 Thread Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen
Paul Davis: > >Since mainstream capabilities support seems always to be somewhere > >over the horizon, I am interested in the patch Paul and Steve > >mentioned. IIUC, it defines a control file in /proc which, if > >enabled, allows any process access to scheduling and memory locking > >privileges.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] Demolition results, attention LADSPA developers

2003-11-16 Thread Mike Rawes
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 14:30:17 + Nick Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here are my latest test results from running Demolition > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~njl98r/code/ladspa/demolition.html > > 237 plugins were tested from 117 plug-in libraries, including all the > ones in BLOP, CMT, SWH, MC