[Musix-users] Do I run a low-latency and realtime kernel?

Mon Apr 9 17:45:55 CEST 2007

First of all, I must say Marcos has taken on a large,
daunting, yet
valuable project with Music.  I have tried many other
Music/Sound
production Distro's, and Musix is the only one that
really works.  I
continue to be amazed at Marcos can do with his
Distribution.

If there are any ubuntu people on this list, you may
know that Ubuntu
Studio is due for release this month:
http://ubuntustudio.org/  I admit
that I will try it, but then go back to using Musix. 
Ubuntu Studio have
decided to use Gnome for the project desktop which
will cause problems
on my ancient hardware.  Again, Marcos' selection of a
lightweight
desktop (iceWM + ROX Filer) proves he understands the
scope of the
project and how to reach those goals.

When researching information about Ubuntu Studio and
sound with Ubuntu,
I came across some very useful documentation
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sound.   The Ubuntu
Studio Preparation
page has brief yet useful discussion about Kernel
Preemption and XRUNS.
In that discussion, there is a link to a document on
compiling a Kernel
with Real Time Preemption:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToVanillaKernelWithRealtimePreemption.

Since Musix is based on Knoppix which is based on
Debian, and Ubuntu is
based on Debian, the documentation above should work. 
I have Debian
Stable installed on a Mac G3 Blue and White, and
hopefully I will have
time to test the documentation.

Please don't do kernel experimentation on a system
with important data!

I hope this helps.

-=cybersean3000=-

On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 06:54 -0400, julien bodd wrote:

> I went through the linux-audio-users-request mailing
list and I saw
> that a low-latency kernel is not the same with a
realtime kernel.

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