[PlanetCCRMA] trouble with FC5 install

Paul Coccoli pcoccoli@gmail.com
Tue Jun 6 20:02:01 2006


On 6/5/06, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 17:23 -0400, Paul Coccoli wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I just installed FC5 + the planet, following Fernando's instructions.
> > Running "yum install planetccrma-core" did NOT install the rtirq
> > package, nor did it make the change to /etc/security/limits.conf
> > (which is done by the planet's PAM package, right?).  This led to tons
> > of xruns without anything even running.  After installing rtirq and
> > editing limits.conf to allow memlock, I now have no xruns (still with
> > nothing running).  Hopefully I can try some tests with ardour tonight.
> >
> > Just wanted to point out that things didn't go exactly as expected,
> > but appear to be working now.
>
> [just back from a short trip, still catching up]
>
> I'll check this tomorrow, there must be missing dependencies then - now
> that I think about it that is possible as the "low performance"
> PREEMPT_DESKTOP was an addition in the fc5 kernel packages so I must
> have forgotten to add those dependencies. Did you try the
> "planetccrma-core-edge" install?
>
> Thanks for the report!!
> -- Fernando
>

Hey Fernando,

I didn't try planetccrma-core-edge package.  I've never used the edge
stuff; I'm too cowardly.  Not that it would really matter if my system
were unstable, but I'm just too comfortable with the regular stuff.

Here's the scoop on planetccrma-core:
[root@boon paul]# rpm -q --requires planetccrma-core
kernel-i686 = 2.6.16-1.2080.13.rdt.rhfc5.ccrma
kernel-module-alsa-2.6.16-1.2080.13.rdt.rhfc5.ccrma-i686 = 1.0.11-1.rhfc5.ccrma
alsa-driver = 1.0.11-1.rhfc5.ccrma
alsa-lib >= 1.0.11-3.rc2.2
alsa-lib-devel >= 1.0.11-3.rc2.2
alsa-utils >= 1.0.11-3.rc2
alsa-tools = 1.0.11-1.rhfc5.ccrma
alsa-firmware = 1.0.11-1.rhfc5.ccrma
alsa-oss = 1.0.11-1.rhfc5.ccrma
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1

I get 5.8ms latency with my Delta 66.  That's good enough (for now).
I've only record one track at a time, without any plugins.  Hardware
monitoring.  This is in Gnome, too.  I changed the pci latency value
to the max for the Delta 66 with "/sbin/setpci -v -s 00:0a.0
latency_timer=ff" but I'm not sure it helped anything.

paul