[PlanetCCRMA] FC3 versus FC2 - experiences (double edge?)

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 23:12, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 22:59, Shayne O'Connor wrote:
> > i finally got it together re: compiling and installing of alsa from cvs ...
> > 
> > and on the latest edge kernel, things have been rocking along nicely all
> > day and night now - no kernel oops, no hanging, no xruns of a
> > significant nature (purely from launching/exiting jack clients), and
> > running for hours at a time under heavy load whether i'm using ardour,
> > rosegarden, muse, hydrogen, dssi-vst, jack_fst, fweelin, or some
> > combination of them.
> >
> > [MUNCH]
> > 
> > it all looks good on the edge :)
> 
> Glad to hear that!
> And without breaking stride:
> Time to break stuff again!! Buahahaha.....
> 
> Nice timing, I just moved a new edge kernel to the edge repository. If
> this sounds confusing then it is perhaps because it is (confusing). The
> "Edge" kernels are the sort of bleeding edge kernels that can be
> installed alongside the more "normal" kernels. But this edge is (for
> now) in the planetedge _repository_, not the normal planetcore
> repository. 
> 
> Anyway, it is 2.6.11-0.7.rdt.rhfc3.ccrma and is based on:
>   2.6.11 +
>   2.6.12-rc2 +
>   realtime preempt 0.7.45-01
> This is all garnished with a very nice:
>   alsa version 1.0.9-0.3.rc2
> sprinkled with tasty kernel modules for:
>   2.6.10-2.1.ll, 2.6.11-0.3.rdt and 2.6.11-0.7.rdt

I forgot to mention, 2.6.11-rc2 has new features in the selinux
(Security Enhanced Linux) infrastructure that cause problems with the
default targeted policy in FC3 - which has seen a couple of updates over
the past few days. 

I ommited part of the patch (new feature), otherwise the browsers would
not work with selinux active. Even then there are a couple of problems
that show up in my logs (portmap and nscd). If you want to use this
kernel and this causes problems you can disable selinux in the "System
Settings" "Security Level" menu (go to the "Selinux" tab). You can
disable enforcing of the policy (and you will get warnings in the logs),
or disable selinux entirely, or just turn off support for the services
that cause problems. 

-- Fernando