On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:36:21 +0100 "emanuele ..:: www.rumoridifondo.com ::.." <emanuele@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > thanks to lee, lars & flo. > > what are exatcly the role of realtime, commoncap (which is used by > realtime, i saw with lsmod) and capability? > Hi, i'm only really sure about the realtime module. It provides a way for non root users to make threads run SCHED_FIFO and to use the mlock and mlockall commands. Both of which is necessary to get good realtime performance. See this page for some more info: http://tapas.affenbande.org/?page_id=21 On linux midi/audio setup see this page: http://tapas.affenbande.org/?page_id=40 Have fun, Flo -- Palimm Palimm! http://tapas.affenbande.org