The audio group

ttoine at ttoine.net ttoine at ttoine.net
Fri Sep 3 17:32:28 BST 2010



Le 03/09/2010 13:13, David Henningsson a écrit :
> 2010-08-24 10:56, David Henningsson skrev:
>    
>> Hi,
>>
>> Adding users to the audio group is not recommended for reasons I've just
>> documented here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/TheAudioGroup
>>
>> Looking at ubuntu studio documentation, you seem to recommend people to
>> add themselves to the audio group pretty much (found by doing a search
>> for "audio group" on help.ubuntu.com), so can we remove it? Change it to
>> something else?
>>      
> So to follow up,
>
> Perhaps trying to change this for Maverick is too late in the cycle, so
> I propose that we keep it as it is for now, and for Natty, we try to
> make jack request real-time privileges via RealTimeKit - and thus
> /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf won't be needed at all.
>
> How does that sound?
>
>    

David, it sounds very good, imho the best, easiest and simple way for users.




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