[linux-audio-user] Jackstart - realtime capabilities issues

[tim hall]

Rachel,

On Monday 16 February 2004 10:30 pm, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> With some more work it is
> possible to use all AGNULA packages on a Debian machine. Just add:
>
> # Demudi:
> deb http://apt.agnula.org/demudi unstable main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://apt.agnula.org/demudi unstable main contrib non-free

I agree up to this point. It is precisely what I have done.

> into /etc/apt/sources.list, run "apt-get update" and something like
> "apt-get upgrade" while online.

I feel that I should point out that the AGNULA developers don't recommend 
installing it on anything other than a very basic 'Woody' install. I'm not 
saying don't do it - Agnula unstable works very well on top of Sarge, but 
there are some critical differences with the set up which you may come up 
against and there are no standard answers for. So no guarantees, no safety 
net, but hey, this /is/ Linux after all :-]

I still think this is _probably_ the best option, but have a browse through 
all this first :-]

http://www.agnula.org/download/demudi/demudi_1_1_0_apt
http://www.agnula.org/documentation/dp_tutorials
http://lurker.agnula.org/list/users_at_lists_agnula_org.html

The reason for this caution is that Agnula-1.1.0 is built on top of a 'Sid' 
snapshot which is not in sync with 'Sarge'. My way round this has been to 
temporarily disable all sources apart from the ones explicitly mentioned in 
the Agnula download instructions when upgrading or installing multimedia 
software. Then you just have to be careful about not accidentally upgrading 
those packages when you upgrade the other packages from 'Sarge'. (I'm 
assuming this is what you are using). If all you want is the kernel, this may 
not be an issue at all.

This is all from personal experience as a relative newbie. For my own purposes 
I'd be very interested in comments from anyone else who is making music using 
Debian Sarge. The Agnula bods are amazed that I get anything to work at all 
on my system, I think it's the way to go and I would be glad of more people 
to compare notes(sic) with but it does neeed a little more work :-]

cheers

tim hall