On Wed, March 14, 2007 04:48, Ken Restivo wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 10:34:11AM +0100, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > >> David Baron escribe: >> >>> Tried to make a patched 2.6.20.1 using make-kpkg. Cannot find patch >>> for patch-2.6.20-rt8. How do I do this (since this is not a >>> debian-installed patch package)? >> >> Why bothering about 2.6.20 when Musix developers [1]already packaged a >> multimedia 2.6.21 for you? I've tried it and works lovely. >> >> 1. http://linux.ilmainen.net/musix/linux-2.6.21-rc3-SMP/ >> >> > > Wow, I love that they provide a Debian package of the kernel, and the > headers, and the sources! And it's SMP too. > > Now *that* is the way it should be done. > > > Thanks Musix! > > > However, I notice that rtirq does *not* work with this kernel anymore. > > > And yes, I have the 20070101-19 version, which appears to be the latest > one. > > In fact, running /etc/init.d/rtirq status shows just: > PID CLS RTPRIO NI PRI %CPU STAT COMMAND > 3 TS - 19 4 0.0 SN ksoftirqd/0 > 6 TS - 19 5 0.0 SN ksoftirqd/1 > > > > And with no set of ps options on this kernel (i.e. ps -eLf, can I find > the threads for IRQ handlers for things like firewire or the various USB > interrupts at all. > Are you sure that kernel is a -rt patched one? latest should be patch-2.6.21-rc3-rt0. There's no way around: rtirq is fitted and only works on Ingo's -rt kernels. Otherwise it just does nothing, as it seems is your case. Cheers. -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc@xxxxxxxxx