Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:02:27 -0700 From: Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> To: Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Tragic State of FreeBSD Audio/Sound Message-ID: <CAK7dMtC0f7SgU7k6Yvbqg94eksd5UJ1meX7o2_0ukAteZPb-9g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CALH631mZWS9e9FDXPUT8N8W8WnNnpfYaoPuRyqXhqNTW9=atLw@mail.gmail.com> References: <hkttyyfmuguexmliuhmg@ewtn> <sirudbjwrqwlhpzjpfqf@abqv> <CAK7dMtCRpXO71v=AEsrtuQufVJHjN%2B%2BhsN6CT_MkXhMa1-JOzw@mail.gmail.com> <CALH631mZWS9e9FDXPUT8N8W8WnNnpfYaoPuRyqXhqNTW9=atLw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jul 21, 2026 at 3:13 AM Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2026 at 12:57 PM Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com> wrote: > > > > Only major outstanding work is pipewire/pipewire-pulse don't know how to > > elevate their priority on FreeBSD and they really should be RT. > > What's needed for that? There are multiple issues: 1) Either a fix for the priority in PipeWire (SCHED_FIFO, don't set a negative nice.level = -11 as a normal user) or something to make RTKit work 2) Use the process ID, _gettid(). 3) kldload mac_priority and user in realtime group > > Disable the stock PulseAudio autostart. > > Why, what's wrong with it? Try killing it with KDE running and see what happens. > > if [ -z "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" ]; then > > export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/var/run/user/$(id -u)" > > mkdir -p "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" > > chmod 700 "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" > > fi > > This is done by pam_xdg, you shouldn't do that yourself.home | help
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