Realtime sound on feisty

[Jack Bowling]

On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 05:44:31PM +0100, andy baxter wrote:
> Mario Vukelic wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 16:16 +0100, andy baxter wrote:
> >   
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Is there any way to get realtime sound recording/playback (i.e. using 
> >> the kernel's CONFIG-PREEMPT option) under a standard feisty kernel?
> >>     
> >
> > http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/admin/linux-lowlatency
> >   
> Thanks for the help - I've now got jackd running in realtime low latency 
> mode. In case anyone else is following this, I also had to edit the file 
> /etc/security/limits.conf and add the following lines at the end of the 
> file:
> 
> @audio - rtprio 99
> @audio - memlock 250000
> @audio - nice -10
> 
> 
> I can't log in to the wiki at the moment - I was going to add a few 
> lines to:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudioPreparation
> explaining how to get realtime sound recording working under feisty. If 
> anyone who knows more than I do feels like updating this page, that 
> would be good; otherwise I'll do it myself some time soon.

Andy - You may want to google for Ubuntu Studio which makes its raison
d'etre audio and video stuff. I'm sure they have a tuned kernel for low
latency work.

Jack