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 "Slackware DAW" icon in the hicolor icon directory. * Installs a number of DAW related black&white wallpapers. It is 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