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, MCP and

[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. No

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, set a

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 never

[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] 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 people may

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 one

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] 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 cheers,

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

[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 privileges. No

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 sysadmin to