> I have not yet run 2.6 myself. From comments posted on > linux-audio-dev I doubt it will solve all the problems. > > The 2.6 developers claim much better latency results than vanilla 2.4. > This is an important step forward, but their claims are still > noticeably worse than a properly patched and tuned 2.4 system. IIRC, > the differences were very much in the range that low-latency audio > cares about (1 to 4 msec). > > I had not heard about the capabilities patch being included in 2.6. I > hope it is. Of course capabilities were also "included" in 2.4, they > just disabled the CAP_SETPCAP ability, making them relatively useless. > > Time for me to download a copy, build and install 2.6. Anyone have a > recommendation for running it on a Debian woody system (plus some > sarge packages)? Is there a backport site?
I used to simply compile kernels manually myself - downloading the vanilla source from kernel.org (or patches, since they are much smaller, if you are going from one release to the next (eg. 2.4.21 to 2.4.22). Then I started using make-kpkg from the kernel-package package. This is nice, it creates a .deb from your "make ?config"ed kernel, including modules package, headers package, doco package, full package, source package, etc. - whatever you ask it to, it will build. Simply go away and come back after a cuppa. Most recently I simply installed the latest kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686 package. I am on sid (unstable) though... Manually building gives me a certain warm-and-fuzzy "I (think I) know exactly what's happening kind of feeling, which you lose a little of using an automated system such as make-kpkg. But make-kpkg is nice... cheers zen
