Yo, Another heads-up: I just stripped all he messy permission-related startup code from PA. There is no group "pulse-rt" anymore, and no calls into PolicyKit. It's all gone. Instead you now either have to set RLIMIT_RTPRIO before starting PA or use RealtimeKit. RealtimeKit is now a dependency of PA. (Except when it isn't, i.e. embedded worlds) Why? Simply because that old code was crap and there is now finally a safe and secure way to enabe RT by default on the desktop, which is RealtimeKit. More information about rtkit you can find here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.audio.devel/18224 And here: http://git.0pointer.de/?p=rtkit.git;a=blob;f=README Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4