[PlanetCCRMA] added: even _more_ kernels; updated: rtload

[Shayne O'Connor]

On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 08:11, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> Hi all, let's enter 2005 booting into yet another new kernel! (as if we
> did not have enough of them :-)
> 
> I just released kernel version 2.6.9-2.3.rdt.rhfc2.ccrma, the Fedora
> Core 2 version of the one that I released yesterday. Regretfully Pato
> (de la Cuadra) reports that it does not solve the video binary driver
> problem. 

correct - i get the same error as before ... however, with the 2.6.10
kernel, i was able to install the latest nvidia driver (6629) which
would boot into xfce, but only behind the "smokescreen" of the nvidia
splashscreen (really wierd - i could see the "stopped" of qjackctl as
well as the taskbar icon but nothing else - the desktop is still there,
just invisible). 

a patched earlier driver (6111) was able to install and boot (on 2.6.10
as well) from runlevel 3, but just gave a black screen when booting from
scratch.

i guess 2.6.10 looks a lot less buggy as far as issues with the nvidia
driver goes ...

> 
> But there's more....
> 
> I also released kernel version 2.6.10-2.1.ll for Fedora Core 2 and
> Fedora Core 3. This is the stock 2.6.10 kernel with the realtime linux
> security module added (so that you can run Jack and his friends with
> realtime priority as a non-root user). 
> An "apt-get update", "apt-get dist-upgrade" will automatically take you
> (assuming you have the planetccrma-core-* package installed) to the
> safer 2.6.10 based kernel. This is the "stable" kernel so you should not
> have problems booting your machine. I would not bet on that, of course
> :-) The performance of this kernel is terms of low latency is definitely
> not as good as the more risky kernel based on 2.6.9-rc3-mm1 and Ingo's
> patches, but it should work fine on more hardware. 
> For those of you that are in a position to boot into the rdt kernels
> with no problems, 
 
does this mean that the 2.6.9 kernel is the better option if that indeed
works on my machine (which it does quite well)
.... both kernels seem to run okay on my system - which would be better
to test (ie - which one has the likeliest future?) 

> I have created a new set of meta packages to install
> it and keep it up to date when new releases land on the Planet. Just:
> 
>   apt-get install planetccrma-core-edge
> 
> You can, of course, have both planetccrma-core and planetccrma-core-edge
> (and its smp versions) installed at the same time. 
> 
> Another version (0.0.2) of the rtload script has been released, without
> a stupid bug in the script itself :-(
> 
> BTW, the current kernel-module-alsa packages have a problem in the
> postuninstall script. For some unknown reason the absolute path of
> /sbin/depmod is being changed to /bin/depmod, which of course is wrong.
> I have no idea why this is happenning, I swear I have /sbin/depmod in my
> spec file. So you will get a script failure when you uninstall the
> package. Ignore it. Will be fixed in future releases but there is no way
> of retroactively fixing scripts :-)
> 
> Enjoy!
> -- Fernando
> 
> 
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