[linux-audio-user] Help neede with ardour

Taybin Rutkin taybin at earthlink.net
Fri Aug 22 11:51:01 EDT 2003


Actually, I'd like to hear about why the kernel developers were shocked about our use of capabilities.  Could you expand on that?

Taybin

-------Original Message-------
From: Mark Knecht <mknecht at controlnet.com>
Sent: 08/22/03 09:55 AM
To: linux-audio-user at music.columbia.edu
Subject: RE: [linux-audio-user] Help neede with ardour

> 
> > >
> >    I will still enter a request, but it looks like this is considered
at
> > least controversial by some at Gentoo.
>
> Just including jackstart seems very sensible. The Debian package
> includes jackstart and has instructions on how to patch the kernel for
> capabilities.  But if a user is running a stock kernel, jackstart
> will not work, and one is forced to use jackd. This is absoluetly
> okay, IMO.
>
> The alternative would be to build a kernel-image, on that jackstart
> depends, which just will not work out in the end. It's better to just
> leave that in the users' responsibiliy.

This is exactly what I have suggested yesterday and today. Gentoo does
this
other places, like with 3D acceleration. They provide ebuild that don't
work
until I compile my kernel to turn on certain things and edit my XF86config
file to enable features.

We'll see. I think we'll get there.

A while back some of the kernel developers were a bit shocked we were
using
capabilities this way, but that's another story! ;-)

- Mark


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