Re: [LAU] rt-video guide on linux jounal

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 1:14 PM, MarcOChapeau <marco@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:52:27 +0100, garryo <garry.ogle@email-addr-hidden>
> wrote:
>> strangely the guy in the vid set rt priorities for qjackctl, ardour and
>> other audio softs he was using as well as the expected jackd.
>> surely only jackd and the sound card IRQ need real time priorities?
>> or am i missing something here?
>
> I finally found the time to look at it... It is probably one of the best
> rt-audio tutorials I have seen...
>
> Picture that: a guy actually takes the time to make *video* for the *linux
> journal* to tell you to change the RT prio of.... QJACKCTL ! I hope I
> misunderstood... Really...
>
> And what's all this about set_rlimits ? There's PAM for that (well, except
> maybe on slackware where they... don't like PAM)
>
> Oh, a good one too : "As is usually the case with Linux, the first thing we
> need to do is recompile the kernel". Dude... this is 2008... We have audio
> distros out there...

A year or two ago, the PAM updates and realtime kernels were not
widely available. Perhaps his information is simply a little dated.

-- 
 joq
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