On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Robert Persson <halfbeinghalfthing@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Geoff King a écrit : > > I've been having a problem which isn't directly to do with audio—it's to > do with the Ubuntu realtime kernel—but I haven't got any answers from > the Ubuntu forums and this is a real showstopper as far as doing audio > work goes. > > > > I've tried the ubuntu realtime kernel several times. I'm not suprised by > your > findings. Check out these links. I would suggest you file a bug report to > ubuntu launchpad. > > > > Thanks David and Geoff. > > It doesn't look very well, does it? I certainly had realtime working on this > machine at some time in the past because I remember launching and using > Ardour. Did all these problems creep in with Intrepid? > > I actually tried disabling networking before suspending last night. This > time the interface didn't lock up immediately, but a whole raft of things > went weird one after the other, taking me to the point where I had to hold > down the power button for five seconds. Disabling networking altogether is > not an option because I need to be able to switch between different > activities easily; this isn't a dedicated audio workstation. > > Do you really need -rt for your work? > > > > Unfortunately, because I do actually need to work with audio in real time, I > do need -rt. I shall certainly file a bug report, but I notice that the > existing bug reports have been assigned low priority. Since it doesn't look > like these problems are likely to be fixed anytime soon, I'm getting to the > point where I have to consider ditching Linux and using Windows for > everything. I need to be able to do a bit of audio work here and there and > then get back onto other things, so rebooting all the time is not an option. > The only other option would be to consider switching to a more > audio-oriented distribution, by which I mean one that will also let me do > normal desktop stuff (Gnome, Skype, Amarok, aMule etc. etc.) without too > much hassle – I don't have the time to do the Gentoo thing over again. > Would something like Fedora/Planet CCRMA fit the bill? I notice however that > on the main Planet CCRMA page it says that not all packages have been > compiled in 64 bit versions. Does that mean I should forget the idea? > > Robert > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > Regarding RT and ardour, you can run jack and ardour without RT. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
