[LAU] jackd in RT mode at boot

Ray Rashif schivmeister at gmail.com
Tue Jun 29 15:37:09 UTC 2010


On 29 June 2010 23:27, Gabriel M. Beddingfield <gabrbedd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, Lists Parisson wrote:
>
>> I need to start jackd server in realtime mode on boot for an audio
>> embedded
>> Linux based project. However it seems that for OS using PAM like Debian,
>> it's
>> impossible to get RT priorities for the predefined jackd user during the
>> boot.
>
> Have you tried starting it in an RC-script that's run at runlevel 2 or
> higher?  (Runlevel 2 is the first multi-user runlevel.)
>
> Also, seems like you would want it near the end... like S99myinitscript or
> something.
>
> This way, it's more likely that PAM is up and running.

You can start jack in a startup profile, or by a daemon as user with
su -c. There were some discussions on this, and of particular note
recently:

http://linuxaudio.org/mailarchive/lad/2010/3/7/166506


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