[PlanetCCRMA] Low Latency Patch

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

> Oh no, I think I'm hosed.
> 
> I tried installing the the core kernel and I couldn't boot my machine.
> Probably hardware issues. That's why I went with the capabilities
> kernel.

I see, what kind of problems did you find? Do you remember what were the
messages? What hardware are you running on?

> Don't tell me I'll have to go back to Windows and buy a copy of
> Cuebase... :-(  major, major bummer.

Hopefully that won't be necessary :-)
-- Fernando

> On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 20:23, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > > I'm running RH9 from a pure install of the Planet CD's from April
> > > something 2004. I have a slow modem connection to the internet. The
> > > version I'm running, to be precise, is Redhat 9
> > > 2.4.20-31-1-CAPS.RH90.ccrma.
> > > 
> > > The question is do I need to manually install the low-latency patches?
> > 
> > Nope. 
> > 
> > > When I get to the chapter in the instructions that talks about setting
> > > low latency to 1 and I issue the command it says the patch isn't
> > > installed. Here is the output from the cat command:
> > > 
> > > [root@mars]# cat /proc/sys/kernel/lowlatency
> > > cat: /proc/sys/kernel/lowlatency: No such file or directory
> > 
> > That is correct. There are two kernels available. The one you are
> > booting is the one derived from the RedHat kernel and has a partial low
> > latency patch. And the patch is not user configurable (by RedHat's
> > decision). 
> > 
> > There is another kernel you could install that has better low latency
> > characteristics (currently 2.4.26-1.ll). It has less compatibility with
> > the original RedHat kernel so it might give trouble with some hardware
> > that works well with the RedHat derived kernel. 
> > 
> > See the section on installing kernel and alsa in the Planet CCRMA site,
> > the one you want to try would be installed by saying:
> >   apt-get install planetccrma-core
> > (for uniprocessor machines). 
> > 
> > -- Fernando
> > 
> 
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