On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:50:52PM +0100, tim hall wrote: > Last Tuesday 13 July 2004 13:11, kmd was like: > > can i use the 2.6 kernel or should i use > > the special compiled multimedia 2.4 kernel (for mandrake, via contrib > > sources). and i have trouble as well to play with jack without being > > root, > > General consensus seems to be that a 2.4 multimedia kernel is the 'stable' > approach. You won't have to run Jack as root if you run a patched multimedia > kernel. You probably won't need to do a lot of tweaking. Best approach is > probably to get a working system with 2.4 and then upgrade to 2.6 only if > you're really not happy with results. Personally, I will be happy to wait > until 2.6 is more stable. Agreed, I would only go to 2.6 is you really need some features in it - its basicly stopped one of my machines from being a useful audio box. - Steve
