[linux-audio-user] A couple of questions

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 16:49 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> 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, 

Well, that's what I meant by OOTB...

> 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.

Yep, that already was happening in the latest kernels/pam in fc4. 
-- Fernando