Russell Hanaghan wrote: > So just a follow up here: > > Indeed, PclinuxOS (PCLOS) is up and alive with Thac's splendid sound > packages amongst others. I Just wiped my MDK install from my > production box (Rather an anxious moment) and installed PCLOS from a > single CD. Then after install I fired up APT and added Thac's RPMs > compiled specifically for PCLOS and have all the core audio apps > installed and running on one of Svetjlo's RT kernels with no problems. > hey there russell i've dowloaded and installed the pclinuxos live cd ... got thac's apt repo happening ... had a few troubles getting rid of KDE and switching to Gnome/XFCE4, but i think i'm about there now ... however ... which kernel, from which repository, am i supposed to be using? with the multi-media kernel, i'm able to start jackd realtime, however it says it can't lock memorly lock the RT thread ... if i use Thac's pre-empt kernel, i can't seem to be able to get real-time privileges at all ... it's a bit confusing, since i'm a CCRMAer thru and thru, but it would be great to get a live cd setup with ardour and hydrogen and the other apps i use for recording ... (my recording buddy uses windows, but wants a way to edit the stuff we do on my linux box without actually installing linux). can you give me some general tips on what your alsa/jack/kernel setup is with pclinuxos, which repositories you have enabled etc ... help would be much appreciated, and i hope this can be as good as it sounds :) shayne