On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:39 AM, david<gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Raffaele Morelli wrote: >> 2009/6/30 Norval Watson <norv2001@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: >>> Hi y'all, >>> I want to install a realtime audio distro on my new Asus Eee 901. >>> I need a 2.6.29 realtime kernel or higher to support the hardware on my Eee. >>> I have got the 2G RAM (haven't swapped it in yet). >>> AFAIK, options include: >>> DebianEeePC http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC >>> ArchLinux http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Asus_Eee_PC_901 >>> Eeebuntu http://www.eeebuntu.org/ >>> Indamixx USB stick, when it's available, (and it's not free) >>> >>> I have been using Debian unstable for some years so I'm most familiar with that. >>> Any suggestions welcome, particularly regarding optimizing the kernel. >>> TIA >>> Norv >> >> >> Debian testing here, 2.6.29.5-rt22, ASUS Mobo (don't remember exatly >> what model... I am at work now) >> >> Optimizing the kernel? ... it depends from your hardware but, apart >> from binary size, I can not really say if turning off wireless stuffs >> from kernel config could improve RT performances. I am sure somebody >> else can comment bettere on this. > > I'm slowly turning my wife's old laptop (2.8GHz Celeron, 768MB RAM, > saddled with older Intel chipset) into a synthesizer/effects box. It > currently has Ubuntu Studio on it. While I have the wireless antenna > turned off (we have no wireless network around here), I've never > disabled the wifi kernel modules or drivers. And it runs along quite > happily at latencies between 5-10 msec using an external USB audio > interface ... > > I seem to recall that the problem with wifi wasn't the presence of the > drivers, it was the fact that the system was incessantly trying to make > a wifi connection. Maybe that's something Network Manager does that > doing your networking using command line stuff doesn't? > > -- > David > gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > authenticity, honesty, community > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > Yeah, there is a command line utility that searches for wireless access points and lists their respective signal strength etc. (iwlist), and I only run it if I think an access point should be there and I am not finding it or getting a poor connection. It seems like networkmanager runs iwlist or does some equivalent on a frequent basis (even if it already has a wifi connection), and uses quite a bit of CPU doing it. I no longer need to worry about this since switching to debian, where the /etc/network/interfaces config file plus the ifup/ifdown commands that reference that configuration have served me just fine. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
