On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 08:33:13PM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote: > > > The Thursday 2007-12-20 at 19:16 -0000, Kevin Donnelly wrote: > > > Well, as Wolfgang has already pointed out, there is a whole class of audio > > stuff that is crying out for an RT kernel - the one Jacklab did for 10.2 is > > quite good, and setting one up for Debian/Ubuntu is reasonably simple too > > (or > > you can use dedicated distros like Daniel James' estimable 64Studio). This > > area has been developing rapidly over the last 18 months, and I tend to > > agree > > with Wolfgang that Novell/openSUSE is missing a trick (ie influential market > > segment) here, especially given the excellent packaging work on audio apps > > already being done by Tony Graffy and others on Packman. For audio work, > > you > > certainly need a graphics system, and there may be a need for some add-on > > hardware too :-) (and certainly a decent audio card). > > Some one said that audio was well handled in the desktop nowdays. I don't > agree. An example that happened to me today: > > I have a cronjob that spells out the current time every half hour, using > "festival". Well, I was browsing the net, clicked somewhere, the hour > started to say: "December 20..." then it was cut to silence, the web page > updated, and finally the voice continued "... 15:30". > > > Surely, sound is, should be, a high priority task and should never be > interrupted by another task - although I don't know how festival is > programmed.
It's not "sound" that is a high priority task, but it should be the "application sending the sound". I suggest boosting festival's priority and see if that helps. Also, the recent addition of pulse-audio should help out a lot with these kinds of things in the future... thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
