+1 for your 2 ideas. We need to use realtime group !
Antoine THOMAS Tél: 0663137906 2014-05-18 11:41 GMT+02:00 Kaj Ailomaa <zeque...@mousike.me>: > We should do something about how realtime privilege is administered. > > Currently, the upstream Debian package jackd installs a file, giving > members of audio group access to tuned "rtprio" and "memlock", at > /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf. Also, access to ffado drivers is done > from /lib/udev/rules.d/60-ffado.rules, also giving audio group the right > to use a set of ffado supported devices. This all works fine in Debian, > since the user is in audio group by default. Not on Ubuntu though, since > the group is used for other things. > > I would prefer that installing jackd would give the user realtime > privilege the same way on any Debian derived system, and since audio > group is out of the question, we should look at other alternatives. > > A couple of ideas: > * introduce two new groups and make sure both Debian and Ubuntu > introduces them. Name them "jack" and "ffado". > * Make jack use rt-kit. (We still need a way for jack to get access to > ffado devices though) > > -- > ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list > ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel >
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