[PlanetCCRMA] Fedora 1 or 2

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 10:11, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 09:56, Steve Harris wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 09:43:19AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 06:46, R Parker wrote:
> > > > The solutions for low latency in 2.6 are in the early
> > > > stages of development. I think the average 2.6 user on
> > > > these lists is someone that's interested in testing
> > > > and reporting performance. The 2.4 kernel has been
> > > > running stable for a pretty fair amount of time. Maybe
> > > > a couple years or even longer.
> > > > 
> > > Some of us are stuck. I have a new laptop with a new chipset. I get no
> > > DMA support with a kernel older than 2.6.3, and I get no realtime
> > > support with a kernel newer than 2.4.X.
> > 
> > I'm in a similar situation (suspending doesnt work usefully in 2.4), sp
> > I'm using bleeding edge Planet. FWIW, its working very well as long as I
> > temporarily disable the CPU frequency sclaing features (I have a script to
> > do it).
> > 
> > I've also installed FC2 on my studio desktop machine (I was feeling daring
> > :) and thats running well too. A bit better than it was in 2.4 infact.
> > It's an Athlon + via chipset + nvidia + hammerfall.
> > 
> > For people playing with the IRQ threading stuff or using laptops I have a
> > script that tries to intelligently turn on/off the 2.6 realtime features:
> > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~swh/rtsettings
> > 
> Steve,
>    The info is very useful. Thanks.
> 
>    Can you say at this point that with FC2 and the newest Jack 0.99-x
> that you arent having any *major* problems? On my machines, and
> apparently a number of other folks judging by the list trafic here and
> elsewhere over the last week or so, it seems that something is going on.

The temporary problem with prelink and jack (fixed in 0.99.0-2) were
Fedora Core 1 specific. They should not have affected Fedora Core 2
users... let me know otherwise. 

-- Fernando