Am Samstag, den 24.10.2009, 15:08 -0400 schrieb Brian J. Murrell: > On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 16:35 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: > > > > Realtime schedulling is now handled by rtkit. Sadly I am led to believe > > that unlike other distros begin released just now (inlcuding Mandriva > > and Fedora) Ubunutu are not shipping rtkit. As I don't follow Ubuntu > > developments, this could be outdated info. > > $ apt-cache policy rtkit > rtkit: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: 0.4-0ubuntu2 > Version table: > 0.4-0ubuntu2 0 > 500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > brian at brian-laptop-old:~$ apt-cache rdepends rtkit > rtkit > Reverse Depends: > pulseaudio There is written REVERSE! > > So it is shipping in Karmic and pulseaudio depends on it. > > b. I think you got something wrong, rtkit is not used by pulseaudio in Karmic. The kernel doesn't have the essential patches for rtkit. Changelog pulseaudio (1:0.9.19-0ubuntu3) karmic; urgency=low [ Tony Espy ] * debian/control: Add a Conflicts for rtkit so we force removal, and hence get more testing coverage between now and Karmic final (LP: #452458). [ Daniel T Chen ] * debian/patches/0056-ignore-sound-class-modem.patch: + Apply patch from Whoopie to fix initialization of devices with modem subdevices (LP: #394500, #450222) See also: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/406702 Regards Achim