[linux-audio-user] pam modules / non root users can't get realtime privileges.

[James Stone]

> 
> Lee told me to use something like this into /etc/security/limits.conf
> 
> @audio               hard    rtprio  99
> @audio               hard    nice    -20
> @audio               soft    nice    -20
> @audio               hard    memlock 500000

I wouldn't bother about the memlock part.. I hit some serious
problems with realtime applications running out of memory.

> 
> My user is into the audio group, of course
> 
> But the problem is still here: no realtime JACK audio for non root users... I 
> cant install an Ubuntu libpam-modules into this system, because it will break 
> the package dependency system.
> 
> What else could I do?

I assume you rebooted the system? Also do you also have the up to
date libpam0g (0.79-4)?

Otherwise, it should work!! What is happening when you try to run
jackd as a user?

James