Comment 15 for bug 301755

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Eugene (kukachik) wrote :

when i try to watch a movie, i get

 PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
 9716 eugene 20 0 214m 5240 3724 S 90 0.3 0:02.76 pulseaudio
 9703 eugene 20 0 345m 27m 15m S 6 1.4 0:00.33 mplayer
in syslog

Mar 21 12:50:09 eugene-desktop pulseaudio[9647]: main.c: Called SUID root and real-time and/or high-priority scheduling was requested in the configuration. However, we lack the necessary privileges:
Mar 21 12:50:09 eugene-desktop pulseaudio[9647]: main.c: We are not in group 'pulse-rt', PolicyKit refuse to grant us the requested privileges and we have no increase RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits.
Mar 21 12:50:09 eugene-desktop pulseaudio[9647]: main.c: For enabling real-time/high-priority scheduling please acquire the appropriate PolicyKit privileges, or become a member of 'pulse-rt', or increase the RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits for this user.
Mar 21 12:50:19 eugene-desktop pulseaudio[9650]: cpulimit.c: Received request to terminate due to CPU overload.

eugene@eugene-desktop:~$ sudo lspci
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP65 Memory Controller (rev a3)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP65 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP65 SMBus (rev a1)
00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP65 Memory Controller (rev a1)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP65 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP65 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:06.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP65 Ethernet (rev a3)
00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP65 High Definition Audio (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP65 PCI bridge (rev a1)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP65 IDE (rev a1)
00:0a.0 SATA controller: nVidia Corporation MCP65 AHCI Controller (rev a3)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP65 PCI Express bridge (rev a1)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 9800 GT (rev a2)

eugene@eugene-desktop:~$ uname -a
Linux eugene-desktop 2.6.28-10-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Mon Mar 16 23:49:27 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

last update - 21/03

when i change audio output to alsa in mplayer all works fine to me