Re: [LAU] Realtime, but many xruns when jack is started. Debian Etch

From: Lars Luthman <lars.luthman@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Sep 30 2007 - 17:11:37 EEST

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.

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.

--ll

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