[PlanetCCRMA] Re: Using the planet with ordinary fedora kernel...

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 16:15, joseph barrows wrote:
> I am using fedora core 2 but a recompiled version from linuxtant that has 
> 16k stacks - to \support the nvidia gfx drivers. 

Hmmm, I seem to recall that nvidia has rcently released drivers that
work with the 4k stacks of the fc2 kernels...

-- Fernando

> i dont really do sound
> or midi, just pd/gem at the moment, but am having some trouble with file
> formats and gem crashing pd and the system.
> 
> 
> ==============Original message text===============
> On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 20:44:02 +0200 Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 06:54:28PM -0700, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 05:50, rodney wrote:
> > > 	  I may need to use the regular fedora core 1 kernel to maintain
> > > compatability with some other stuffwe are using for video etc. Is it still
> > > possible to use apt with the planet collection, or are they all specific to
> > > the planet kernel? 
> > 
> > It is possible, provided you have ALSA installed for your other kernel.
> > Almost all the apps in Planet CCRMA require ALSA to be installed, and
> > properly configured if you want them to be useful for anything. 
> > 
> > > Is that a realistic option?
> > 
> > Yes. I do not provide ALSA kernel modules for the standard Fedora Core 1
> > kernels but other repositories do. Check Freshrpms, Dag and Atrpms, I
> > think they have ALSA kernel modules for the standard kernels. If you
> > manage to get the proper ALSA kernel module installed and have alsa-lib
> > installed then Planet CCRMA packages should install...
> 
> That's true, but I would suggest a more aggressive schedule, what is
> missing in PlanetCCRMA's kernel? Support for v4l2/ivtv etc for
> PlanetCCRMA's kernel can be found at ATrpms (check for
> kernel-module-<foo>-2.4.26-1.ll.rhfc1.ccrma-* packages).
> 
> > > I am mainly using midi rather than generating audio on my linux box. It is
> > > processing video, then feeding midi out from pd to an external synth.
> > > 
> > > I promise I will try it all with the planet kernel first! :)
> 
> Do so, I don't think you will find anything missing.