[linux-audio-user] Installing realtime kernel - gentoo ERRORs loading realtime module

[Brad Fuller]

Thomas Kuther wrote:
> On Mo, 26.03.07 19:48 rob <rob at curates-egg.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> Lee Revell wrote:
>>     
>>> On 3/25/07, Martin Wohlleben <martin.wohlleben at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> pam-0.78-r6 should work. I use this version and jack runs with
>>>> rt-prio. Check your /etc/security/limits.conf for the right entries
>>>>
>>>> # REALTIME support for audio group users
>>>> @audio          -       rtprio          100
>>>> @audio          -       nice            -10
>>>> @audio          -       memlock         250000
>>>>         
>>> Great... another distro patching old PAM versions rather than
>>> upgrading...  why?!?
>>>       
>> Perceived level of risk?
>>     
>
> tom at SiRiUS ~ $ equery which pam
> /home/tom/cvs/proaudio/trunk/overlays/proaudio/sys-libs/pam/pam-0.99.7.1-r1.ebuild
>
> Though 0.78-r6 is marked as stable here, whereas 0.99 is marked as
> ~arch (testing/unstable). Gentoo stable likes keeping old stuff, because
> of stability reasons I'd guess - like debian, or redhat, or whatever
> other distro providing stable and testing branches.
> But if you want the newer one, just emerge it. You just have to unmask
> it.
>
> Also no idea why you are using a 2.6.16 kernel - 2.6.20-rt8 is superb,
> at least on my uniproc machine here.
>   

well.. I was just following the directions - I haven't done a realtime 
kernel on gentoo and am using/trying the proaudio overlay.