On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 20:53, flacycads wrote: > I found both the multimedia 2.4.21 rpms and srpm in the regular ibiblio > contribs mirror. Does anyone know if those indeed have the preemptive patch, > or is there a different version in the Club? Also, what exactly is the > difference between the multimedia and stock versions? Also found a "mosix" > version, whatever that is.
I've seen them discussing the multimedia one in cooker. It's supposed to be designed with things like low latency pre-emptive etc for use in multimedia applications. Sound recording, Video editing ... etc. James > > Robert Crawford > > On Thursday 27 March 2003 07:55 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 13:01, Hezekiah M. Carty wrote: > > > >From what I've read on the Mandrakeclub site, there is at least one > > > > > > preemptive kernel available at least semi-officially for 9.1. I think > > > the multimedia kernel has the preempt patch, and there may be another > > > one. They're either in the main distro or contribs, I'm not sure which. > > > > > > Hope this helps! > > > Hez > > > > There is one available in the Club that I know of. > > > > James > > > > > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 12:51, flacycads wrote: > > > > Are we going to be able to get a 2.5.xx kernel compiled with Mandrake > > > > 9.1? I gave up trying to compile a 2.5 kernel on 9.0, as apparently too > > > > many needed items were missing and/or unavailable (not to mention I'm > > > > not exactly an expert at this stuff). I figured with the newer glibc > > > > and gcc it may be possible, but what else is needed? I guess an > > > > upgraded module-init-tools according to what I've read, but will a new > > > > version exist OK on 9.1, and what about automake and autoconfig- do we > > > > need newer versions of those too? Has anybody done it yet? Basically, > > > > I'm ready to compile anything needed from source, but before when I've > > > > tried this, I always ran into drastic versions of dependency hell- to > > > > such an extent I was forced to give up. > > > > > > > > I managed to get 2.4.20 with the ck preemptive kernel patch to work > > > > fine on 9.0, but can't find a ck or rml preemptive patch for 2.4.21 as > > > > yet, so I thought 2.5.65 might be worth a try, as it is already > > > > preemptive. In my case, the preemptive kernel gave a noticable > > > > performance boost. Any advice is much appreciated. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Robert Crawford > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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