[PlanetCCRMA] Announcing Planet CCRMA for CentOS

[Nigel Henry]

On Saturday 15 March 2008 09:37, Nicholas Manojlovic wrote:
> Thanks, I'm actually using CentOs 5 now with CCRMA.
>
> I was wondering, what else do I need to install aside from kernel-rt?

Hi Nicholas. Well this is what gets installed when you install 
planetccrma-core package on Fedora 8, see below.

[root at localhost djmons]# apt-get install planetccrma-core
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
   alsa-firmware (1.0.15-1.fc8.ccrma)
   alsa-tools (1.0.15-1.fc8.ccrma)
   kernel-rt (2.6.24.2-1.rt1.3.fc8.ccrma)
   rtirq (20070101-1.fc8.ccrma)
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   alsa-firmware (1.0.15-1.fc8.ccrma)
   alsa-tools (1.0.15-1.fc8.ccrma)
   kernel-rt (2.6.24.2-1.rt1.3.fc8.ccrma)
   planetccrma-core (2008.02.11-1.fc8.ccrma)
   rtirq (20070101-1.fc8.ccrma)

So. rtirq is needed, alsa-tools gives you the envy24 control, as I mention 
below. Alsa-firmware is probably only needed if you need firmware for your 
soundcard, and the package description in Synaptic says.
<quote>
This package includes firmware for some of the supported sound cards
<end quote>

Also have a look at /etc/security/limits.conf. Planetccrma's 
jack-audio-connection-kit adds some lines to the file on my F8 install. You 
will need to "perhaps/probably" comment out the the 2 lines for the default 
settings for jack-audio-connection, if they exist, as the default, as you 
see, sets the realtime prio to 20.

See below for how my /etc/security/limits.conf is at present.

## Automatically appended by jack-audio-connection-kit
@jackuser - rtprio 20
@jackuser - memlock 4194304

## Automatically appended by the Planet CCRMA jack-audio-connection-kit
* - rtprio 99
* - memlock 4194304
* - nice -10
>
> Is it possible to get envy24control added to the repo?

That should be in the alsa-tools package.

All the best.

Nigel.
>
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale
> <Arnaud.Gomes at ircam.fr>
>
> wrote:
> > Hi Nicholas,
> >
> > "Nicholas Manojlovic" <nicholasmanojlovic at gmail.com> writes:
> > > this looks fantastic. may I ask, how often will you be doing updates to
> >
> > the
> >
> > > major programs like jack and ardour?
> >
> > I don't know. :-)
> >
> > I guess the packages that are in Planet CCRMA for Fedora will get
> > updated at the same rate as long as the OS provides the right
> > dependencies (I would like to avoid upgrading anything that comes from
> > EPEL, let alone from CentOS itself).
> >
> > As for the others (including Ardour and JACK), I will try to follow
> > minor updates at least; I guess the major updates will be included or
> > not on a case by case basis, depending on the scope of the changes. I
> > really don't have plans for these; I don't know if Fernando has an
> > opinion on the subject.
> >
> > --
> > Arnaud
> >
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