Re: [Jack-Devel] jack - audio group - package install

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DateTue, 24 Jan 2012 16:14:36 +0100
From Kaj Ailomaa <[hidden] at gmail dot com>
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In-Reply-ToAdrian Knoth Re: [Jack-Devel] jack - audio group - package install
Follow-UpJörn Nettingsmeier Re: [Jack-Devel] jack - audio group - package install
On 2012-01-24 16:01, Adrian Knoth wrote:
> On 01/24/2012 03:45 PM, Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
>
>> Why I brought up this subject is to try find a good solution to a
>> practical problem. Namely, how to get realtime privilege simply by
>> installing jackd.
>
> For a start, it would help if you could acknowledge the fact that
> jack-devel has nothing to do with how to enable users of a given
> distribution to achieve something.
>

  I understand that this is true, but there is no way for me to know 
whether there could be another way to solve it other than per distribution.

> We have your bug report, we're working on it, and in maybe four weeks,
> the solution will be in Debian. In some more weeks, it'll also be in
> Ubuntu.
>

I'm hoping that this will be to the benefit for a large sum of users.

> Meanwhile, you have to live with the burden of an additional
>
> "adduser foo audio"
>
> It's been like this for years, it was acceptable so far. Let's take it a
> little further and do what's necessary to play nicely with ConsoleKit.
>
> Note that plenty of jackd users neither use nor want ConsoleKit, so your
> use case is probably less common than you think. Just because you were
> facing the issue doesn't mean it's always like this.
>

Those who have never had to administer groups will not know they need to 
upon installing jack. I'm often helping people solve this on irc, so it 
is a definitely a continuous problem. One which can easily be solved by 
reading jack faq, but on the other hand, wouldn't it be great if they 
didn't need to?

>
>> What bugs me is that you can install jack, but you won't get realtime
>> privilege doing so. It's an unnecessary step to administer groups. It's
>> just a strange thing to do.
>
> Current idea: we'll fire up a dialogue, asking something like "Which
> user should have realtime prios?". You name it, that's it.
>

I'd say anyone who wants to play a live instrument more or less.

>
> Comments?
>
>
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