Every distro seems to have their quirks, but I found that latency is not the huge problem with suse that it is with a basic redhat install, but I found that few of their distro audio apps work right, maybe Geentoo or Mandrake are better, though I've also heard that debian is good, but a lot of work. Anyways I wound up recompiling alsa, jack, and terminatorX, so if I recompile rosegarden and muse, and get ardour working I should be doing fine, I just need to recompile everything from cvs to get the best possible experience. On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 02:56, Chris Cannam wrote: > On Sunday 16 Nov 2003 9:42 pm, Christain Bunge wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 16. November 2003 22:01 schrieb Brian Redfern: > > > Hi there, since I'm sure I'm not the only one running suse (8.2), > > > I'm wondering how other suse users are running jack, are you > > > using suse jack rpms or have you compiled all your jack using > > > apps from source, such as getting the latest cvs versions of > > > jack, rosegarden, fluid synth, etc... > > With SuSE 8.2 it's a bit tricky, as the version of JACK included is > old enough that some recent applications won't even compile with it > (as it doesn't include the new transport API etc). But if you > install a newer JACK for the purposes of building newer apps, you'll > get into trouble with any JACK-based apps already installed that were > built against the old one, because they aren't compatible at the > protocol level. > > I would probably recommend uninstalling the SuSE JACK package and > everything that depends on it, and going for the 0.90 release > instead. In my experience the packaged audio apps often don't work > as well as any you might build yourself anyway (e.g. the Rosegarden-4 > package doesn't work for me as supplied in either SuSE 8.2 or 9.0 -- > on 8.2 you unfortunately need to do "CXXFLAGS=-O0 ./configure" to > build Rosegarden without optimisation to work around a compiler bug). > > > Hi, I`m working with suse 8.2, I try to patch the suse kernel but > > that don`t work. [...] Maybe > > somebody know if suse has integrated the lowlatency patch to the > > suse kernel? > > Don't know, but I do find the stock SuSE kernel gives better audio > performance than the stock RedHat one. So it's possible they have > some of the patches. > > > Chris >
