Re: [linux-audio-dev] kernel 2.6.6 just out

2004-05-13 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 12 May 2004 15:22:06 +0200, Alfons Adriaensen wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 03:03:27PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: Jens M Andreasen hat gesagt: // Jens M Andreasen wrote: To reiterate the question: SuSE 9.0 or Mandrake 10.0? I've been using a standard SuSE 9.0 (2.4) for

Re: [linux-audio-dev] kernel 2.6.6 just out

2004-05-13 Thread Albert Graef
Richard Bown wrote: Try a make mrproper What does that do? The command make mrproper insures that you have a pristine source tree. (whatever that means ...) See http://www.google.com/search?q=make+mrproper :) -- Dr. Albert Graf Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany Email:

Re: [linux-audio-dev] kernel 2.6.6 just out

2004-05-13 Thread Richard Bown
On Wednesday 12 May 2004 21:54, Albert Graef wrote: [SuSE 9.0 and capabilities] That sounds like you're sources are still misconfigured. I was just being a doofus. I hadn't made clean after make dep. So the simple steps to getting it working were: make cloneconfig; make dep; make clean; make

Re: [linux-audio-dev] kernel 2.6.6 just out

2004-05-13 Thread Robert Jonsson
Hi, ... On my SuSE 9.0 system, this makes a *great* difference. Yes, I can attest to that too now. Many thanks for the various tips - the lowest period size I can obtain now with jackstart and --realtime in duplex with the SBLive is now 512 (which is OK) 512 is the smallest buffer size

Re: [linux-audio-dev] kernel 2.6.6 just out

2004-05-12 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On mån, 2004-05-10 at 18:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good question. I had already read that and was curious myself. Also, how about 2.6.6-mm1? I want to upgrade to Fedora Core 2 and a new kernel so I can quit pissing off Paul D. and the guys with my 2.96 gcc ;-) On a related question: I

Re: [linux-audio-dev] kernel 2.6.6 just out

2004-05-12 Thread Robert Jonsson
On Wednesday 12 May 2004 10.25, Jens M Andreasen wrote: On mån, 2004-05-10 at 18:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good question. I had already read that and was curious myself. Also, how about 2.6.6-mm1? I want to upgrade to Fedora Core 2 and a new kernel so I can quit pissing off Paul D.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] kernel 2.6.6 just out

2004-05-12 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Robert Jonsson hat gesagt: // Robert Jonsson wrote: A point list of bad things: - For audio work the bundled 2.6 kernel is not good enough. This depends on the kind of audio work you do. I can do all I want reliably with 2.6 since I installed 2.6.3 the first time. I don't record 12

Re: [linux-audio-dev] kernel 2.6.6 just out

2004-05-12 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On ons, 2004-05-12 at 11:04, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Robert Jonsson hat gesagt: // Robert Jonsson wrote: A point list of bad things: - For audio work the bundled 2.6 kernel is not good enough. This depends on the kind of audio work you do. I can do all I want reliably with 2.6

Re: [linux-audio-dev] kernel 2.6.6 just out

2004-05-12 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Jens M Andreasen hat gesagt: // Jens M Andreasen wrote: To clearify: I use my linuxbox almost exclusively as a realtime midi-synthesizer. The occasional hick-up is not a problem, or at least it is no worse than the audience stepping with high heels and vacuumcleaners into my patchwork

Re: [linux-audio-dev] kernel 2.6.6 just out

2004-05-12 Thread Alfons Adriaensen
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 03:03:27PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: Jens M Andreasen hat gesagt: // Jens M Andreasen wrote: To reiterate the question: SuSE 9.0 or Mandrake 10.0? I've been using a standard SuSE 9.0 (2.4) for about six months now, and it performs very well for audio work. SuSE

Re: [linux-audio-dev] kernel 2.6.6 just out

2004-05-12 Thread Richard Bown
On Wednesday 12 May 2004 14:22, Alfons Adriaensen wrote: I've been using a standard SuSE 9.0 (2.4) for about six months now, and it performs very well for audio work. Are you using the stock 2.4.21 kernel? Any idea how to enable capabilities on it? I've been playing around with SuSE 9.0 over

Re: [linux-audio-dev] kernel 2.6.6 just out

2004-05-12 Thread Jack O'Quin
Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you using the stock 2.4.21 kernel? Any idea how to enable capabilities on it? I've been playing around with SuSE 9.0 over the last couple of days and with an SBLive am only get reasonably xrun-free performance with jackd at 2048, 2 periods. I'd

Re: [linux-audio-dev] kernel 2.6.6 just out

2004-05-12 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Richard Bown hat gesagt: // Richard Bown wrote: On Wednesday 12 May 2004 14:22, Alfons Adriaensen wrote: I've been using a standard SuSE 9.0 (2.4) for about six months now, and it performs very well for audio work. Are you using the stock 2.4.21 kernel? Any idea how to enable

Re: [linux-audio-dev] kernel 2.6.6 just out

2004-05-12 Thread Richard Bown
On Wednesday 12 May 2004 15:02, Jack O'Quin wrote: Then, you have to build a working kernel. Alfons gave me the inside line on that off-list: On SuSE, you need to do a 'make cloneconfig' before the 'make menuconfig' and all the rest. This is easily forgotten, usually giving you a kernel

Re: [linux-audio-dev] kernel 2.6.6 just out

2004-05-12 Thread iain duncan
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 03:03:27PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: Jens M Andreasen hat gesagt: // Jens M Andreasen wrote: To reiterate the question: SuSE 9.0 or Mandrake 10.0? I've been using a standard SuSE 9.0 (2.4) for about six months now, and it performs very well for audio work.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] kernel 2.6.6 just out

2004-05-12 Thread Albert Graef
Richard Bown wrote: On SuSE, you need to do a 'make cloneconfig' before the 'make menuconfig' and all the rest. This is easily forgotten, usually giving you a kernel that doesn't work. Something I didn't know. However it didn't do the trick quite yet as the resulting kernel was still borked.

Re: [linux-audio-dev] kernel 2.6.6 just out

2004-05-12 Thread Larry Lines
iain duncan wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 03:03:27PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: Jens M Andreasen hat gesagt: // Jens M Andreasen wrote: To reiterate the question: SuSE 9.0 or Mandrake 10.0? I've been using a standard SuSE 9.0 (2.4) for about six months now, and it

[linux-audio-dev] kernel 2.6.6 just out

2004-05-10 Thread Robert Jonsson
Hi, As a service to all readers, here's an excerpt of the Changelog concerning latency: ;) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] Add mpage_writepages() scheduling point From: Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Takashi did some nice latency testing of the current kernel

Re: [linux-audio-dev] kernel 2.6.6 just out

2004-05-10 Thread eviltwin69
Good question. I had already read that and was curious myself. Also, how about 2.6.6-mm1? I want to upgrade to Fedora Core 2 and a new kernel so I can quit pissing off Paul D. and the guys with my 2.96 gcc ;-) Jan On Mon, 10 May 2004 16:50 , Robert Jonsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Hi, As a

Re: [linux-audio-dev] kernel 2.6.6 just out

2004-05-10 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, Robert Jonsson hat gesagt: // Robert Jonsson wrote: As a service to all readers, here's an excerpt of the Changelog concerning latency: ;) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] Add mpage_writepages() scheduling point From: Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Takashi

Re: [linux-audio-dev] kernel 2.6.6 just out

2004-05-10 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 09:44:27PM +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: Hallo, Robert Jonsson hat gesagt: // Robert Jonsson wrote: As a service to all readers, here's an excerpt of the Changelog concerning latency: ;) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] Add mpage_writepages() scheduling point

Re: [linux-audio-dev] kernel 2.6.6 just out

2004-05-10 Thread Luke Yelavich
At 12:50 AM 11/05/2004, Robert Jonsson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [PATCH] ia32: 4Kb stacks (and irqstacks) patch From: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] Below is a patch to enable 4Kb stacks for x86. The goal of this is to 1) Reduce footprint per thread so that

Re: [linux-audio-dev] kernel 2.6.6 just out

2004-05-10 Thread Jack O'Quin
Robert Jonsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As a service to all readers, here's an excerpt of the Changelog concerning latency: ;) [...] So... humbly asking, is it time yet to make the switch? :-) Maybe. If you do and you're using the realtime LSM, you're going to need the latest (beta)