Re: [LAU] Arch Wiki Professional_audio

Let's focus on the important parts.

It's a Wiki about professional usage. I don't claim that low latency is
unimportant. It's also important when playing virtual synth, but users
shouldn't try to archive latencies between 1 ms and 5 ms, because this
is hard to archive. If this works it's very good, if just latencies
around 10 ms are possible it's ok, too. More important is to optimise
everything to get a reliable system.

Again, I don't claim that it's absolutely irrelevant to e.g. compile
with "Timer Frequency is set to 1000Hz (CONFIG_HZ_1000=y" but usually
hrtimer is used by default, e.g. by Qtractor. To optimise more for
e.g. MIDI usage users should consider to run jack2 with -Xalsarawmidi.
There also is an option for jack1, but I'm not a jack1 user, so
hopefully somebody could help to edit the Wiki.

It's the Arch Wiki, the recommended kernel from AUR (btw. there's also
a LTS RT patched kernel available) for good reasons dropped 1000 Hz.
IOW the AUR kernel is opposing to the hints provided by the Wiki. If
1000 Hz are still required, then we should clarify this.

I just asked you to help to get the Wiki up to date and to _discuss_
controversial opinions, as well to explain some things that aren't
explained.

I can't understand the resistance and hostilities. What's wrong with
trying to make the Wiki better? It was good, but seemingly isn't up to
date.

For example, I already removed "If you want to use any MIDI hardware
you need to ensure the ALSA MIDI driver is loaded. You can set the MIDI
driver to load at boot by creating the
file /etc/modules-load.d/alsamidi.conf containing:"

For what reason? This happens automatically.

"Warning: Enabling threadirqs seems to be causing system lockups in
conjunction with usb devices in at least some kernel versions starting
with 3.13 and including at least 3.14-rc2. See for example
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1279081 and
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg102504.html also linked from
there. EDIT: The changelog seems to indicate that this has been fixed
in the 3.13.6 vanilla kernel. (Search for threadirqs in
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.13.6)"

No such kernel is still provided by Arch Linux, even the LTS kernel is
4.9.18.

Does somebody need flash for pro-audio?

In short, if somebody wants to set up an Arch Linux PC for pro-audio
it's better to avoid clutter and to focus in short, of the important
things.

This are my opinions and _questions_:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Talk:Professional_audio

On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:16:51 +0200, Michael Jarosch wrote:
>Sometimes, one should think twice before posting. I wouldn't call it
>exactly "offending", but, you know, it just sounds like you're blaming
>people writing shit.

Did you read my talk section?

I didn't add "This article or section needs expansion". Somebody else
did ;).

The Wiki is confusing and needs to be reworked.
expansion.

Regards,
Ralf

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