<h2>High Level Recommendations for Ubuntu Users</h2>
<p>
- Currently, installing pro audio applications on Ubuntu requires some
- configuration, in order for the user to gain realtime privilege (read below).
+ Currently, installing pro audio applications on vanilla Ubuntu requires
+ some configuration, in order for the user to gain realtime privilege
+ (read below).
Ubuntu Studio, which is an official flavor of Ubuntu, and thus shares
the repositories with Ubuntu, has this already configured.
Another distribution, KXStudio, is largely based on Ubuntu, and also has
<dt>What is the problem?</dt>
<dd>
<p>
- The specific issues known at this time (spring 2013) are:
+ The specific issues known at this time for all flavors of Ubuntu
+ 12.04 and 12.10 are:
<ul>
<li>a bug in PulseAudio that causes it not to give up the
- soundcard when JACK asks (<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1163638">LP: #1163638</a></li>
- <li>a bug that causes jackdbus v.1.9.8 (jackd does not suffer from this) to freeze up when told to stop,
- causing issues with restarting (<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+source/jackd2/+bug/956438">LP: #956438</a></li>
+ soundcard when JACK asks (<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1163638">LP: #1163638</a>
+ (fixed in Ubuntu 13.04).</li>
+ <li>a bug that causes jackdbus v.1.9.8 (jackd does not suffer from this)
+ to freeze up when told to stop, causing issues with restarting (<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+source/jackd2/+bug/956438">LP: #956438</a></li>
+ (fixed in Ubuntu 13.04)
</ul>
+</p>
</dd>
<dt>Symptoms</dt>
<dd>
</p>
</dd>
<dt>How to fix</dt>
+<p>
+ These bugs do not affect the upcoming 13.04 release, and earlier
+ releases (12.04 and 12.10) are in the process of being fixed.
+</p>
<dd>
</dd>
</dl>
locking". This means that you, the user who starts JACK, must be
allowed access to these facilities. By default, Ubuntu does create a
user group that has this permission but ... it does not put new
- users into this group by default. Consequently, you will not have
- permission to run JACK in the way you should.
+ users into this group by default. Read more about why <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/TheAudioGroup">here</a>.
+ Consequently, you will not have permission to run JACK in the way you should.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>Symptoms</dt>
Run the command <code>sudo usermod -a -G
audio <em>YOUR-LOGIN-NAME</em></code>. Then logout and login again.
On Ubuntu Studio the user is a member of audio group by default, but not
- on other flavors. Read more about why <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/TheAudioGroup">here</a>
+ on other official flavors.
</p>
</dd>
</dl>