On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 11:53:04AM -0600, Tom Rosso wrote: > Jacob Meuser wrote: > >you DON'T want to run jackd as root. anything connecting to jackd will > >have to run as root. and no, it does not improve performance. > > > > I've experienced permissions-related problems with Jack before, and > meant this as a troubleshooting step.
maybe on some other OS that tries to play tricks to enable realtime scheduling for non-root users? jackd doesn't even have a config file. the only possible permission problems with starting jackd, on OpenBSD, is with not being able to create fifos under /tmp/jack-`id -u`. Obviously you don't want to try > to use audio applications with jackd running as root. > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
