Re: [LAU] How do I install kernel 2.6.32

On 12/18/2009 09:10 AM, Martin Horn wrote:
> 2009/12/17 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee@email-addr-hidden <mailto:ngoonee@email-addr-hidden>>
>
> On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 22:23 +0000, james morris wrote:
> > On 16/12/2009, "Martin Horn" <martin.horn@email-addr-hidden
> <mailto:martin.horn@email-addr-hidden>> wrote:
> >
> > >Hi All,
> > >
> > >I need a 2.6.32 kernel for my soundcard to run, but I can't
> find it by:
> >
> > For what reason?
>
> This is the important question.
>
>
> It is reported that my soundcard (Native Instruments Audio 4 DJ) works
> best with 2.6.32 and that kernel 2.6.30 is required as minimum. The
> card uses the snd-usb-caiaq module and 2.6.32 is higly recommended
> because of Git commits a9b487f
> <http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a9b487f>,
> ac9dd9d
> <http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ac9dd9d>.
> I don't understand these in detail so I don't know how they would
> affect performance.

You probably just need to install the kernela headers and compile a new
version of alsa from source.

Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd

>
> >
> > >apt-cache search linux-headers
> > >
> > >only 2.6.28 is available on my ubuntustudio 8.04 machine and
> 2.6.31 on my
> > >64studio 3.0 machine.
> > >
> > >How can I get a 2.6.32-rt kernel? Do I have to compile it myself?
> >
> > By Downloading the 2.6.32 kernel source and then downloading a patch
> > (which does not exist yet) to make it rt.
>
> You should NOT do this on Ubuntu Studio (or any Ubuntu) unless you
> want
> to fix real borkage. Try upgrading to the latest Ubuntu Studio, it may
> have 2.6.31 at least (not sure on whether they have 2.6.32, maybe
> in the
> latest alpha?).
>
>
> I installed a 2.6.31 kernel via apt-get on my 64studio machine but
> booting the kernel doesn't work ("this kernel requires the following
> features not present on your cpu: pae"). If anybody can help with this
> - thanks a lot!
>
> A bit of an explanation, in Ubuntu (like most distros) the kernel
> version and various packages in the system are closely tied together,
> such that a jump from 2.6.28 to 2.6.32 is likely to result in quite a
> few problems.
>
>
>
> I understood that now, though I hope I will not have to wait for the
> next release to get my card to work...
>
> Thanks again,
> Martin
>
>
>
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