[PlanetCCRMA] jackd xruns problem: solved? (FC2 2.6.8.1+P9 kernel)

Tue Aug 24 19:04:00 2004

On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 13:36, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 16:54, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 15:26, Steve Harris wrote:
> > > On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 06:14:02 -0700, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > > > Ok, Steve and other Fedora Core 2 bleeding edge users, I have the latest
> > > > and greatest (as of yesterday, 2.6.8 final was released in between :-)
> > > > over the fence. Has been tested to boot on all of two (2) machines, a P4
> > > > latop and an Athlon64 desktop...
> > > 
> > > This kernel looks good.
> > > 
> > > I had to run everything as root, as I couldn't build network drivers for
> > > this kernel and I couldn't remeber how to run the realtime lsm, but I got
> > 
> > /sbin/modprobe realcap allcaps=1
> > (to get the behavior that enables you to run jackstart)
> > 
> [MUNCH]
> > On to downloading 2.6.8.1 and voluntary P0 (new series, Ox is already
> > old)
> 
> So, another test kernel available on the PlanetEdge repository. This one
> is 2.6.8.1 with Voluntary Preempt P0 (and with the "nice all realtime
> tasks" option in the sysrq key code - not tested). 

Yet another test kernel for the FC2 daredevils! :-) 
I would dare say that this one works better than 2.4.x! (woohoo!)

To install (after you have planetedge in your repository list):
  apt-get install kernel#2.6.8.1-1.520.1vP9.ll.rhfc2.ccrma
To install the matching alsa driver:
  apt-get install kernel-module-alsa-2.6.8.1-1.520.1vP9.ll.rhfc2.ccrma

I have also included SMP builds (only i686 for now) but be WARNED, I
have not managed to boot into them on two uniprocessor machines. In both
cases the SMP kernel had problems that I think are related to interrupt
handling. I don't have a _real_ SMP system I can use, probably I'll try
on one tomorrow. 

For tunables and more details see last weeks' post:
http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrma/2004-August/005789.html

This kernel also includes a patch for the radeon/mga/r128 dri modules.
Seems to be working fine so far. 

Anyway, in the FC2 planetedge repository there are also new versions of
alsa-driver, alsa-lib, alsa-utils and others, now up to a very recent
post 1.0.6a cvs snapshot. 

Let me know of any problems (or successes). 

-- Fernando