On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 13:30 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
I disagree, I
think the next release of all the major distros should
be
usable OOTB for audio.
Depends on the definition of "usable", I guess. Do you think they will
include access to SCHED_FIFO out of the box?
Ubuntu Dapper will. It can't be enabled OOTB because of the "secure by
default" requirement, but all that's needed is to add:
* rtprio hard 99
* nice hard -20
to /etc/security/limits.conf.
I'm running it now, it works perfectly. Running for several days, max
latency so far with 2.6.16 vanilla (+ latency trace patch) and a 600MHz
box is only ~5.5ms.
I would expect the next Fedora release to also support this, if FC5
doesn't already, all that's needed are recent PAM and glibc.
Lee