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| author |   Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2020-10-12 14:29:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2020-10-12 14:29:18 +0000 |
| commit | 00877036799425fbdbc91884b31ca19bcb7154d0 (patch) | |
| tree | f90d37b5d261a26aeb30702f0fcb60ecf0f13200 /daw_base | |
| parent | 10dc12f2175b9d93efa501f63a2138663d3e9a26 (diff) | |
| download | asb-00877036799425fbdbc91884b31ca19bcb7154d0.tar.gz asb-00877036799425fbdbc91884b31ca19bcb7154d0.tar.xz | |
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diff --git a/daw_base/build/README.1st b/daw_base/build/README.1st new file mode 100644 index 00000000..caf8c6f0 --- /dev/null +++ b/daw_base/build/README.1st @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +Slackware DAW essential configuration. +====================================== + +In order for a user to benefit from Slackware DAW, the user account must be a member of the 'audio' group! + +The following OS modifications are made by this package: + +Real-time tweaks: +----------------- +* For PAM based system, allow any user in 'audio' group to invoke rt capability. +* UDEV: allow access for 'audio' group to the high precision event timer, which may benefit a DAW which relies on ALSA MIDI. +* UDEV: grant write access to /dev/cpu_dma_latency to prevent CPU's from going into idle state. +* Audio related sysctl settings for better realtime performance. + +Visual tweaks: +-------------- +* Installs a new menu "Applications > Multimedia > Slackware DAW" and collect all the Slackware DAW applications in there. They will no longer be visible in the "Multimedia" menu. +* Installs a wallpaper called "Slackware DAW". Leave it up to the user to apply this as the desktop background. + +Package management: +------------------- +* The package installs a slackpkg template file called 'daw' containing the list of all DAW related packages. From time to time, after the daw_base package has had an update, run these three commands as root: + # slackpkg update + # slackpkg install-template daw + # slackpkg upgrade-all + |