[linux-audio-user] unable to use qsynth

[Lee Revell]

On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 22:00 -0700, Noah Roberts wrote:
> On 5/21/05, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 20:05 -0700, Noah Roberts wrote:
> > > What I really don't get is the "Can't set high priority..."  I have RT
> > > limits and jack is able to go realtime.  Could its inability to do
> > > that be causing the troubles?
> > 
> > I think that we are seeing a problem with some apps that don't work with
> > the RT limits patch because they assume if one RT priority is available,
> > they all are, as with the realtime LSM.  Probably it tries to create the
> > thread at RT priority 99 or something.  Audacity seems to do the same
> > thing.
> > 
> > This could be responsible for the bug, if it does not handle this error
> > correctly.
> 
> Can I solve the problem without diving into source?
> 
> 

Try setting the max RT priority to 99 in /etc/security/limits.conf.