Lee Revell wrote: > On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 08:47, Joe Hartley wrote: >>So my advice for a Linux audio workstation? Check out the audio distros >>mentioned above, pick one, and configure the system from the ground up >>around it. Just itching to try the latest 2.6 kernel patches? Great! >>I'm really glad people want to blaze that trail! But it's best done on >>a machine other than the one you want to do recording on this weekend, >>or at the very least in another partition that won't affect your working >>environment. And then check out the websites for optimizing IRQs and >>hard drives and turning off CD polling and every other trick compiled >>for setting up a Linux audio workstation. > If you can, it might be better to wait for binaries of the new 2.6 low > latency kernel. All of the stability issues seem to be solved. The > last major issue was getting it working on x86-64 which seems to also be > resolved; it has been stable for a week or two on ia32 UP and SMP as > well as PPC. The only a things that are still being worked out AFAICT > are things like the init scripts to activate the low latency features. > I would expect binary kernel packages for your favorite distro to be > available any day now, if they aren't already. So does mean the stock kernel.org 2.6.9 kernel will include these patches? or that there is now (or will soon be) a standard patch? I see now that Ingo relased an -R6 patch yesterday and -R7 and -R8 today, not 3 hours apart. -Eric Rz.
