[PlanetCCRMA] jackstart problem on FC2...

Don Levey planetccrma@the-leveys.us
Mon Jul 12 12:25:02 2004


planetccrma-admin@ccrma.Stanford.EDU wrote:
> --- Mathew Steliga <mateusz@nowystyl.com.pl> wrote:
> 
> ---------------------------------
>     using apt i got ardour with all needed things but
> i cant run it
> is says i need to run jack before running ardour but
> when i want to runjack i can see:
> 
> [mak@bilbo mak]$ jackstart
> jackstart: cannot get realtime capabilities, current
> capabilities are:
>            =ep cap_setpcap-ep
>     probably running under a kernel with capabilities
> disabled,
>     a suitable kernel would have printed something
> like "=eip"
> 
> how to start jack??
> 
> You can start jack with the root account which
> dictates that all applications will also need to be
> started by root.
> 
> If you want to run jack from a normal user account
> you'll need to enable capabilities in the kernel--I
> assume you're using a 2.4.? series kernel. You can
> find instructions for patching the kernel capabilities
> in the jack FAQ.
> 

Fedora Core 2 comes with kernel 2.6 by default...
 -Don