<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Jeremy Jongepier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeremy@autostatic.com">jeremy@autostatic.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">On 10/11/2010 08:36 PM, Ronan Jouchet wrote:<br> > On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Brian David<<a href="mailto:beejunk@gmail.com">beejunk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> >> Also, you should not be using limits.conf anymore. JACK will create<br> >> /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf, and that is the one that should be used<br> >> to adjust settings. I think it might cause trouble if these settings are<br> >> listed in both limits.conf and audio.conf<br> >><br> >> What kind of interface are you using?<br> >> -- Brian David<br> ><br> > Howdy,<br> ><br> > TToine: yes I added myself to the audio group (that's what "the usual<br> > setup in groups" meant in my extremely imprecise original mail :P )<br> ><br> > Brian, yay! You're right these settings were in<br> > /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf (thanks to jackd2's dpkg install<br> > procedure, am I right?) but I also added them manually in<br> > /etc/security/limits.conf . Seems to work fine after restoring<br> > limits.conf. And sorry if the following questions have already been<br> > answered, but:<br> > a. is audio.conf new to jack2?<br> <br> </div>No, it's new as of Lucid. The origin of this change is in Debian.<br> <br> > b. why this change?<br> <br> Ask the Debian packagers. Probably because it complies better with<br> conventions. Don't ask me which conventions, don't have the faintest clue ;)<br> <div class="im"><br> > c. should we leave limits.conf alone now?<br> ><br> <br> </div>Make your changes in /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf to prevent any<br> future problems.<br> <div class="im"><br> > I am using an Edirol FA-66. And while we're at it, now seems a good<br> > time to empty my bag of related questions:<br> > d. I read about changes in the firewire stack (different kinds of<br> > /dev beasts used now). Do they concern all firewire cards, and what is<br> > their impact?<br> <br> </div>Yes, concerns all cards. It's a complete rewrite afaik.<br> <div class="im"><br> > e. is adding the user to the "disk" group still required?<br> <br> </div>No idea, haven't used/tested the new Juju stack yet, afaik this is not<br> necessary anymore. But then it wasn't required with the old stack<br> either, you'd better use the audio or video groups for that.<br> <div class="im"><br> > f. under lucid, in order to get jack to start I often had to modprobe<br> > raw1394&& chmod a+rw /dev/raw1394 . Under Maverick I no longer need<br> > this, is this thanks to the new firewire stack, some kind of new auto<br> > setup, or the powerz of keyboard cat playing during a full moon night?<br> ><br> <br> </div>modprobing and chmodding isn't necessary at all when you use the Ubuntu<br> Studio Controls or add the raw1394 module to your /etc/modules and<br> create a /etc/udev/rules.d/50-raw-firewire-permissions.rules manually.<br> <div class="im"><br> > Thanks everybody for your grrreat help!<br> > Ronan<br> ><br> <br> </div>Best,<br> <font color="#888888"><br> Jeremy<br> </font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> --<br> Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-Studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>one thing i do to trouble shoot my firewire interface is run sudo qjackctl. if JACK starts as root, then i know i need to look at the permissions and groups, and go from there. i have had decent luck just adding myself to the audio and video groups, and looking at <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Firewire">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Firewire</a> . i have a presonus firepod.<br> <br clear="all"><br>-- <br>MH<br><a href="http://www.myspace.com/mikeholstein">http://www.myspace.com/mikeholstein</a><br><br><a href="http://opensourcemusician.libsyn.com/">http://opensourcemusician.libsyn.com/</a><br>