Re: [LAU] PITA: RME HDSPe AIO

On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 21:10 -1000, david wrote:
> Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
> > On 06/07/2011 10:27 AM, david wrote:
> >> The last couple of Ubuntu releases have not included RT kernels because
> >> Ubuntu thinks no one needs one.
> >
> > Hello David,
> >
> > This is not entirely true. The maintainer of the rt kernel package has
> > decided to call it a day a while ago and no one stepped up. Ubuntu (as
> > an entity part of Canonical) thinks nothing, it's the community that
> > dropped the support for this package because no one within the community
> > stepped up to take over maintaining the rt kernel package. The Ubuntu
> > dev maintaining this package was in no way affiliated with Canonical, he
> > was a volunteer, just like a lot of other package maintainers. So imho
> > it was not the fact that pro-audio users are being routinely ignored
> > that caused the rt kernel package to get dropped, the cause was the fact
> > that none of those pro-audio users saw the need of keeping this package
> > in the official repo's. And even if they did see it they were unwilling,
> > incapable or simply too little in number to participate in maintaining it.
>
> Thanks, wasn't aware of that.
>
> I still don't like Ubuntu. ;-)
>
> > Linux and pro-audio is really about finding your balance if you care
> > about the Linux OS. Sometimes that is friggin hard because in the end
> > you want to make some music, not test kernels.
>
> If I simply had an RT-kernel in a DEB package that worked, I'd be fine.
> None of my hardware here provides glitch-free audio performance except
> for effectsbox, which is running an audio distro that includes an RT
> kernel. Maybe a non-RT kernel work for people with heavier-duty hardware
> than mine. They don't on my hardware.

David, I guess everybody who makes serious audio work needs a kernel-rt
too, hard to imagine that some people really don't need a kernel-rt.

I'll test kernel 2.6.39.1

$ uname -a
Linux debian 2.6.39.1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 7 01:40:05 CEST 2011 x86_64
GNU/Linux

Just PREEMPT? No RT? I don't know.

I once had a kernel PREEMPT and there were issues when I tried to use it
for audio. But perhaps the vanilla 2.6.39.1 is ok.

Cheers!

Ralf

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Received on Thu Jun 9 12:15:03 2011