Trying to start jack with regular user

[audiodef]

I know jack works because I can start it by running qjackctl as root. So I somehow need to give permission to something, somewhere, so my regular user can start jack.

This is the command that works as root:


/usr/bin/jackd -dfirewire -r48000 -p1024 -n3

But as a regular user, I get:

[Kingmilo]

I agree, there is another part of the system that needs to be touched and only root has permission.
Why not setup sudo for that command and see if that works, or alternatively start the service as root and hup then use regular user for the rest.
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[audiodef]

It doesn't work that way. When you start jack as root, you need to run everything else as root. Ergo, if you're going to do that, you might as well log into Xorg as root.

I'm actually going to start doing that if I can't figure this out, the rule against doing so be damned.
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[pota]

You need a rtlimits-enabled pam and set up
/etc/security/limits.conf accordingly by adding something like this:

@audio - nice -10
@audio - rtprio 99
@audio - memlock unlimited

and put yourself in group audio.

[audiodef]

Did that! Still not!

I've done all the "right" things. It's still not working.
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