On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 5:55 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? > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > The pro-audio overlay is fine and running Gentoo as an audio platform has worked well for me for years. Yeah, Gentoo is work, but it's so stable that I would be hard pressed to give it up. I do not understand your comment about 2.6.16. That would be ancient but I don't see it. Build 2.6.31.12-r20. Hope this helps. Ask more questions if you need to. Cheers, Mark firefly ~ # emerge -pv rt-sources These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] sys-kernel/rt-sources-2.6.31.12-r20 USE="-build -symlink" 0 kB [1] Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB Portage tree and overlays: [0] /usr/portage [1] /usr/local/portage/layman/pro-audio firefly ~ # _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
