[linux-audio-user] low latency kernel

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Joern Nettingsmeier hat gesagt: // Joern Nettingsmeier wrote:

> Frank Barknecht wrote:
> >* How's it working? Would you recommend going 2.5?
> 
> fine. EXCEPT: DO NOT USE TAGGED COMMAND QUEUING FOR ATA DISKS !!!!!!
> sorry for yelling, but this thing ate 200G worth of data....
> :)
> other than that, it's been quite well-behaved.

Thanks for that info! But we all have backups. haven't we. (/me
blushes)

> >* What is needed to use 2.5? 
> 
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes
> expect to update a number of userspace tools, most notably modutils.

I'm running Debian unstable, so I probably already have most of these. 

> >* When will 2.6 come out?
> 
> when it's ready :)
> you might be happy to hear that linus has released 2.6.0-test1. not that 
> this has any significance whatsoever. :)

I expected this answer. ;) 2.4 had a very long 2.4.0-testX phase, but
at least this has started the beta phase for the next version. 

Actually I'm asking for experiences with 2.5 because I'm writing an
article on setting up a Linux audio workstation and I'm wondering if I
should cover the 2.5-series in more depth than just saying: "2.5 has
better latency built in, but use it only if you know what you're
doing". But then, maybe instead of explaining how to patch the
2.4-kernel, I could just say: "install 2.5 and enable ALSA. Now on to
installing Jack..." ;)

ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__