On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:34:11 -1000 david <gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Fritz Meissner wrote: > > 2009/11/10 david <gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> > >> My understanding is that Ubuntu doesn't have a working RT kernel. > >> And it appears to me that they're not even trying to have a > >> working RT kernel, they think they don't need it. > >> > >> -- > >> David > >> > > I think the RT kernel fell behind in 9.04, but it is back again in > > 9.10. From the release announcement : > > > > "For Ubuntu Studio 9.10 we have continued to grow our feature set, > > update packages, and fix critical bugs to better the Ubuntu Studio > > user experience. > > > > We are happy to announce that the real time kernel will be an > > official upstream release patch. It will be installed by default > > if the audio task is selected. We have tested it heavily and are > > very happy with it's performance in audio environments. > > > > Features/Improvements: > > > > * Official upstream RT kernel release (i.e. it's very stable)" > > Well, the only downloadable images I see there are "alternate > install" images, I guess they don't have regular install ones yet. > Guess I'll download one and see if musicbox will run it. Thanks for > the news. If this doesn't work for you, I'd try netboot or whatever of normal ubuntu of the same version and work from there. It should be easy to get the rt-kernel and you'd have a reasonably minimal system to start with. I thought about going this route a year ago but then decided to switch distro, away from debian-based. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
