[PlanetCCRMA] trouble with FC5 install

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 23:01 -0400, Paul Coccoli wrote:
> 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!!
> > 
> 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

Yeah... missing deps, I'll fix this asap and release together with the
new pam. Thanks again. 

-- Fernando

> 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.