Re: [LAU] another eeepc success story

I have an MSI Wind purring happily along using a custom-compiled
2.26.29-rc3-rt6 kernel. Main reason for not using vanilla rt Ubuntu 9.04
kernel is that we discovered having issues with hibernation. Everything
works out-of-box including webcam, wireless, standby, hibernate, compiz,
64x2 jack on internal soundcard at 48KHz (this actually breaks Pd apparently
as it cannot handle such small buffers and gets zombified :-) etc. I guess
the reason I am posting this is if anyone would like to try DISIS version I
would greatly appreciate any feedback. You can get it from
<http://ico.bukvic.net/Linux/Kernels/>. If interested, I can also upload
latest version with debugger disabled which brings the download down from
277MB to roughly 25MB...

FWIW, as an added bonus, MSI Wind laptops have a manufacturer built-in BIOS
feature allowing CPU overclocking from 1.6GHz up to 2GHz by simply pressing
fn+f10.

Ico

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-audio-user-bounces@email-addr-hidden [mailto:linux-audio-
> user-bounces@email-addr-hidden] On Behalf Of Dan S
> Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 11:43 AM
> To: LAU
> Subject: Re: [LAU] another eeepc success story
>
> Cool. I have an Eee 701 on which I installed "Ubuntu Eee" (an
> unofficial buntu), and then I recompiled the "array kernel" (kernel
> tweaked for the eee, "2.6.27-8.17eeepc1" I think,
> <http://array.org/ubuntu/>) with the realtime patches added. I didn't
> overclock - I have had no problems with SD cards.
>
> That aside, I had a very similar experience to you: solid low-latency
> audio I/O as long as I deactivate networking (I habitually just turn
> off wifi from the eee-control applet). I do realtime
> analysis/processing/synthesis using supercollider.
>
> I also have an Eee using the stock Xandros which doesn't have an rt
> kernel but (as long as you sudo) is surprisingly solid for realtime
> audio.
>
> Dan
>
>
> 2009/5/6 James Stone <jamesmstone@email-addr-hidden>:
> > Following on from Ken Restivo's amazing work getting RT linux
> > working on the eeepc, I decided to have a go. I am using a 701,
> > which I have slightly overclocked using the eee.ko module
> > (required on my eee to boost voltage to get SD cards working
> > reliably YMMV).
> >
> > http://code.google.com/p/eeepc-linux/
> >
> > I patched the latest 2.6.29.2 kernel with the rt11 patch, and
> > just built it...
> >
> > Running Jack with qjackctl, I can set periods to 128, full
> > duplex, 44100 and get no xruns. I have to set prio to 89, and
> > force 16 bit. Importantly, I also have to kill NetworkManager and
> > NetworkManagerD or I get xruns. With all this, it seems really
> > solid. I am running ardour with no problems.. 6 individually
> > recorded tracks writing to the SD card seems to work fine.
> >
> > James
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