fredag 05 februari 2010 15:07:01 skrev Brett McCoy:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:55 AM, james morris <james@email-addr-hidden-art.net> wrote:
> > I've started trying to get a RT pre-empt system using Gentoo. It's
> > painful. Spent most of my time so far just trying to boot a custom
> > kernel which I had zero problems with in Debian.
> >
> > Is the pro_audio overlay any good? does it have the latest s/w?
> >
> > Before I built a custom 2.6.31-rt20 kernel, I used the pro_audio overlay
> > to get rt-sources which gave 2.6.16 which seems ancient.
> >
> > Would anyone actually recommend gentoo for setting up an RT audio system?
>
> I'm running a gentoo audio workstation, using 2.6.30 kernel, with
> realtime. I do use the audio overlay for some things, like jackd, but
> other things I compile by hand since the overlay is a little behind
> the releases. The 2.6.24 kernel is also known to work well with audio
>
> Gentoo is not for the faint of heart, to be sure. You will spend a lot
> of time getting it setup and tweaked.
I can confirm this. I did run a Gentoo audio workstation for some years and
it's nice once you get it up and running. But if you haven't done it before I
wouldn't recommend it. If you would like to learn though, it's a great distro.
I do run gentoo on servers and love it.
/bengan
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