Re: XMMS will not load except as root

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Chris wrote:

> Sure did Dirk, thanks very much.  One more question if you don't mind, maybe 
> you can help.  When using xmms for streaming audio and browsing at the same 
> time, I get a lot of skip in the audio.  Is there anyway to stop this?  I'm 
> using KDE and in the KDE Control Center > Sound > Sound System I have skip 
> prevention set to max but it still happens.  I think the key is to change the 
> 'nice' setting of xmms but I may be wrong.  I can't give xmms a -10 nice 
> setting except as root though.  Possibly you have another solution?

There's some patches flying around right now on the linux kernel mailing 
list for allowing non-root users to nice processes at negative values. 
There's a good chance they'll be included in the mainline soon. Funnily 
enough, their origin is in low latency audio work.

For now, if you have root on the box you should be able to start xmms, su 
to root, and renice the process (renice -10 PID).

-- Cal