On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 16:49 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > 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, Well, that's what I meant by OOTB... > 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. Yep, that already was happening in the latest kernels/pam in fc4. -- Fernando
