fredag 05 februari 2010 15:07:01 skrev Brett McCoy: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:55 AM, james morris <james@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I've started trying to get a RT pre-empt system using Gentoo. It's > > painful. Spent most of my time so far just trying to boot a custom > > kernel which I had zero problems with in Debian. > > > > Is the pro_audio overlay any good? does it have the latest s/w? > > > > Before I built a custom 2.6.31-rt20 kernel, I used the pro_audio overlay > > to get rt-sources which gave 2.6.16 which seems ancient. > > > > Would anyone actually recommend gentoo for setting up an RT audio system? > > I'm running a gentoo audio workstation, using 2.6.30 kernel, with > realtime. I do use the audio overlay for some things, like jackd, but > other things I compile by hand since the overlay is a little behind > the releases. The 2.6.24 kernel is also known to work well with audio > > Gentoo is not for the faint of heart, to be sure. You will spend a lot > of time getting it setup and tweaked. I can confirm this. I did run a Gentoo audio workstation for some years and it's nice once you get it up and running. But if you haven't done it before I wouldn't recommend it. If you would like to learn though, it's a great distro. I do run gentoo on servers and love it. /bengan _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
