Hi Gustin,

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Gustin Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Martin Horn wrote:
> > Hi Ralf,
> >
> > Thanks for all the input and suggestions but I am not very experienced
> > with linux and building my own kernel would shure take me a while ...
> > I do not understand the difference in building a kernel and recompiling
> > the alsa-drivers as the latter seems to include building the kernel for
> > what I found out so far. Maybe correct me if I'm wrong and it is easier
> > to just compile the drivers.
>
> The Linux can be modular, in that you can build drivers and components
> as loadable modules.  This is in fact how most distros build their
> kernels.  What this means is that you can add and or replace drivers,
> functionality etc. as long as certain technical rules are followed.
> This is the short-short version :)
>
> Alsa is one of those things that can be replaced, with reasonable ease.
>

Thats nice to hear, although I think at the moment I don't have time to dive
deeper into this. I will have to start reading about some basics first
instead of running from one problem into another while messing with stuff I
don't know nothing about.

If you are building a kernel once in a while and are willing to build one
for me as well (e.g. 2.6.31-rt, no PAE, latest alsa drivers/ snd-usb-caiaq
module) please let me know! Would be very nice if it doesn't take you extra
time.


> >
> > For now I just want to use my new soundcard so unfortunately I will have
> > to switch back to ubuntustudio which includes a 2.6.31 kernel in the
> > latest release.
> > This might be a reason for other people too to switch distros, it takes
> > me half an hour to make a new install but it would take me days now to
> > get my setup working when starting to build the kernel myself...
> >
> > Hopefully there will be a 2.6.32-rt patch soon and a new release of
> > 64studio with it. In fact I made better audio experiences with 64studio
>
> Probably not.  Thus far 64Studio has been basing their releases around
> Debian Stable and now Ubuntu LTS releases.  What this means is that the
> next major revision is likely to be after the release of Ubuntu 10.04.
>
> Usually there is nothing to stop a distro like 64Studio from using a
> newer kernel.
>

> > and also like it more than ubuntustudio for being more lightweight and
> > straightforward.
>
> I am not sure about straightforward, but I do like the focus on
> stability.  There is a reason that my DAW runs 64Studio even if that
> focus on stability causes me issues with things like rakaraak.
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