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On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:37:35 +0200

Nigel Henry  wrote:
> On Sunday 30 September 2007 16:11, Lars Luthman wrote:

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> > On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 16:09 +0200, Lars Luthman wrote:

> > > On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 16:02 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:

> > > > On Debian Etch, using kernel 2.6.18-5-686, which I presume is a

> > > > realtime one, as when I start jack with qjackctl, and with the realtime

> > > > box checked, jack doesn't complain.

> > >

> > > You presume incorrectly. There are no realtime kernels in the main

> > > Debian repositories, and a patched kernel would have the version suffix

> > > -rtX. I don't know when jackd was changed to refuse to start with -R

> > > unless it could actually get realtime scheduling, but it was fairly

> > > recent - if you're using 0.101.1 it will probably start anyway.

>

> I'd got so used to jack complaining when trying to use realtime, when it

> wasn't available, that I presumed it was still the same, and the kernel was

> realtime. I should have got used to the rt suffix by now, having used the

> patched kernels from planetccrma for so long.

> >

> > Sorry for confusing things - you can of course get realtime scheduling

> > without having an RT-patched kernel. It's hard to get jackd to run

> > xrun-free without it though.

>

> So what your saying, is that the realtime-lsm package of scripts may not be

> too successful.

>

> Do you know if there are any debian rt patched kernels available for other

> debian based distros, that might work on Etch, or Lenny?

>

> > --ll

>

> Thanks for the reply.

>

> Nigel.

64studio (V2) is based on debian etch and comes in 64 & 32 bit

versions. It is fully RT patched.
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Will J Godfrey

http://www.musically.me.uk