On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 13:30 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > > I disagree, I think the next release of all the major distros should > be > > usable OOTB for audio. > > Depends on the definition of "usable", I guess. Do you think they will > include access to SCHED_FIFO out of the box? Ubuntu Dapper will. It can't be enabled OOTB because of the "secure by default" requirement, but all that's needed is to add: * rtprio hard 99 * nice hard -20 to /etc/security/limits.conf. I'm running it now, it works perfectly. Running for several days, max latency so far with 2.6.16 vanilla (+ latency trace patch) and a 600MHz box is only ~5.5ms. I would expect the next Fedora release to also support this, if FC5 doesn't already, all that's needed are recent PAM and glibc. Lee
