[PlanetCCRMA] fluidsynth

Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Mon Dec 15 17:21:02 2003


> When I run fluidsynth as a normal user
> I get this:
> 
> fluidsynth: warning: Couldn't set high
> priority scheduling for the audio output
> fluidsynth: warning: Couldn't set high
> priority scheduling for the MIDI input
> 
> Does anybody knows if I need to run it
> as root only or there's something I'm
> doing wrong?

You are fine. I'm not shipping fluidsynth suid root. If you use it as a
Jack client (starting jack with the jackstart command or through
qjackctl with the appropriate parameters) the audio thread will
automatically get realtime priority. 

-- Fernando