Bug 76253

Summary: sound system, realtime priority shows even if artswrapper is not suid
Product: arts Reporter: Aaron Peterson <alpeterson>
Component: generalAssignee: Stefan Westerfeld <stefan>
Status: CLOSED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist CC: finex
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Aaron Peterson 2004-02-27 10:37:56 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.0)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc 3.3.2 
OS:          Linux

My sound was skipping, I was just going to live with the huge latency that I set in Sound & Multimedia > Sound System.

Untill I found an artsd kicker applet that told me to run my artswrapper as suid!

If artswrapper must be set suid for:
Run with the highest possible priority (realtime priority)
checkbox to do anything,

then it should be greyed out if artswrapper is not suid, and bring up a little helpful note that says how to chmod artswrapper, or just say that it must be suid root...


I have since been able to bring my latency down enough to be able to play quake3 with artsdsp.

So... setting it suid really did correspond with my sound working with lower latency...

Thank you!
Comment 1 Matt Rogers 2008-11-19 23:37:37 UTC 
Arts is no longer developed and has been unmaintained for quite some time - more than 2 years. With phonon as the replacement for arts in KDE4, we're closing out all the arts bugs in Bugzilla since there is no chance of them being fixed.

Thanks