[mythtv-users] Problem with "Enable Realtime Priorirty Threads"

[Damian]

Tom Dexter wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Damian <damian at gingermagic.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>>  I've never sorted this problem and I've got a bit of time on my hands at
>>  the moment so I should look into it now. If I try to "Enable Realtime
>>  Priorirty Threads", the frontend says:
>>
>>  2008-03-18 20:43:43.013 Realtime priority would require SUID as root
>>
>>  Is there a simple solution to this? I'm using Mythbuntu 0.21 and use a
>>  couple of different users accounts use MythTV
>>
>>  Cheers
>>  Damian
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> 
> I use what's described here:
> 
> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-5.html
> 
> ...in the section marked "Enabling real-time scheduling of the display
> thread".  It requires having PAM version 0.79 or above (I have
> sys-libs/pam-0.99.9.0 installed under Gentoo), and having this in
> /etc/security/limits.conf:
> 
> *               -       rtprio     0
> *               -       nice       0
> @audio          -       rtprio     50
> @audio          -       nice       0
> 
> That's always worked for me.  I get this in my mythfrontend.log:
> 
> 2008-03-19 01:32:17.500 Using realtime priority.
> 
> Tom
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Great, thanks Tom

Damian