[linux-audio-user] Realtime not working on Debian testing... why?

[Jack O'Quin]

On 11/14/06, Spencer Russell <slothlove at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/14/06, Dragan Noveski <perodog at gmx.net> wrote:
> > Julian Hagenauer wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > i am using Debian testing with libpam-modules 0.79-4.
> > > I added
> > > @audio                 -       rtprio          99
> > > @audio                 -       nice            -10
> > > @audio                 -       memlock         250000
> > > to /etc/security/limits.conf and i am member of the audio-group.
> >
>
> I very well could be wrong, but I'm not using libpam, i'm using
> set_rlimits. Is one of these methods considered better/cleaner? I
> tried to figure out for a while how to get pam set up for rlimits, but
> in the end this seemed much simpler.

I think the PAM solution is better, once your distribution includes
the necessary update.   Trying to patch PAM yourself is probably
more trouble than it's worth for most of us.

With limits.conf updated and your UID added to group "audio", just
log out.  From then on, everything should "just work".  You should
not have to think about this absurd problem ever again.

Sad that it has taken so many years to reach this point, and that
many distributions still do not contain that fix.
-- 
 joq