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

[Brad Fuller]

Thomas Kuther wrote:
> On Mo, 26.03.07 12:29 Brad Fuller <brad at sonaural.com> wrote:
>
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>> Thomas Kuther wrote:
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>>> On Mo, 26.03.07 19:48 rob <rob at curates-egg.org> wrote:
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>>>> Lee Revell wrote:
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>>>>         
>>>>> On 3/25/07, Martin Wohlleben <martin.wohlleben at gmx.de> wrote:
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>>>>>           
>>>>>> 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?
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>>>>         
>>> 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.
>>     
>
> Yeah well, the howto uses 2.6.16 as example kernel, as 2.6.16 was the
> current stable kernel when I wrote it. 
> But hmm, Frieder still marked 2.6.16-rt29 as the stable rt-sources in
> the overlay - not sure why exactly, maybe perceived level of risk -
> anyways in case of PAM and the kernel, I personally recommend using
> latest ~ masked pam and =rt-sources-2.6.20-r8 :)
>
>
>   
Right, I was using 2.6.16-rt29 and it's working with the pam 0.78. I'll 
try the newest kernel.


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