[PlanetCCRMA] Fedora 1 or 2

[Mark Knecht]

Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> 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

I am currently looking for my copy of System Commander 7 so that I can 
investigate partitioning my Gentoo laptop and doing an FC2 install. Like 
Steve I think I'm best going this direction, but only using FC2 as a 
comparison point for the realtime problems I'm having.

Who knows...there are too many options and decisions just get confusing.

Thanks for your help,
Mark