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diff --git a/audio/fmit/README b/audio/fmit/README index 85f33d9871..b13545d8a2 100644 --- a/audio/fmit/README +++ b/audio/fmit/README @@ -1,9 +1,21 @@ +fmit (Free Music Instrument Tuner) + fmit (Free Music Instrument Tuner) is a piece of software for tuning -musical instruments, using Qt as a GUI library, supporting ALSA, JACK, -OSS, or PortAudio for audio input. Features error and volume history, -tuning scales using Scala (.scl) files, microtonal tuning, harmonic -ratios, wave shapes, and more. - -fmit will automatically detect ALSA and if jack, oss or portaudio -support is desired, pass JACK="ON", OSS="ON" or PORTAUDIO="ON" to the -SlackBuild. +musical instruments, using Qt as a GUI library, supporting ALSA, +PulseAudio, JACK, OSS, or PortAudio for audio input. Features error +and volume history, tuning scales using Scala (.scl) files, microtonal +tuning, harmonic ratios, wave shapes, and more. + +fmit will always be built with support for ALSA and PulseAudio. If +jack and/or portaudio are installed, they will be autodetected +(but may be disabled via JACK=no and/or PORTAUDIO=no in the +environment). + +If OSS support is desired, export OSS=yes in the environment. + +When built with jack support, this package uses POSIX +filesystem capabilities to execute with elevated privileges +(required for realtime audio processing). This may be considered a +security/stability risk. Please read http://www.slackbuilds.org/caps/ +for more information. To disable capabilities, pass SETCAP=no to the +script (or JACK=no if you don't need jack). |