2009/4/17 Geoff King <gsking1@email-addr-hidden>
>
> >
> > Regarding RT and ardour, you can run jack and ardour without RT.
> >
>
> Good point. Although I'm not using the -rt kernel anymore, my ubuntu jaunty
> (and
> intrepid before it) system works very well for audio stuff. I easily run
> ardour
> and jack and others and they are very stable. I found that I did not need
> the
> super low latencies (<5ms) from a -rt kernel to do the recording and
> playback
> that I was doing.
>
> Last time I had a really good -rt kernel was around Gutsy. I did a lot of
> tweaking for that also, but it did work very well with the workstation.
>
> Also FWIW I was never impressed with WindowsXP's latency - Stopped using
> that
> about 2.5 years ago and never could get the latency down low enough for
> live
> playing using a software synth. So one should not just assume that Windows
> will
> give you the super low latencies of a -rt kernel.
>
> The best low latency I've ever gotten from my current desktop was using the
> 64Studio distro a few years ago. But I've never tried the Fedora, Suse,
> Mandriva versions so can't comment on these.
>
> Hope this helps someone.
> Geoff
>
Did you try to compile kernel 2.6.29.1 with patch-2.6.29.1-rt7?
As on every debian based distro it is very easy to compile a customized
kernel using kernel-package.
-r
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