[linux-audio-user] Re: linux-audio-user Digest, Vol 10, Issue 55

Brian Redfern bredfern at calarts.edu
Tue Jul 13 13:44:44 EDT 2004


2.6 on suse is also different than 2.6 fedora, because suse has a couple
of audio programmers who work to make sure their kernel works with audio,
so I can use all my audio apps out of the box with 9.2, and the 2.6
kernel, without latency problems, and without needing a kernel recompile.



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>    1. Re: Note tuning and quantizer in audio files (Paul Winkler)
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> From: Paul Winkler <pw_lists at slinkp.com>
> Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Note tuning and quantizer in audio
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> In case anyone's interested, I just found an interesting
> closely related thread on rec.audio.pro:
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> http://groups.google.com/groups?th=e1a8a02e65f3da0c&seekm=jmtpe0t9ru3q4qst7gldjecc9aq1jrjvqb%404ax.com
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> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:02:53 +0100
> From: Steve Harris <S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] distros
> To: A list for linux audio users <linux-audio-user at music.columbia.edu>
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> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 03:50:52PM +0100, tim hall wrote:
> > Last Tuesday 13 July 2004 13:11, kmd was like:
> > > can i use the 2.6 kernel or should i use
> > > the special compiled multimedia 2.4 kernel (for mandrake, via contrib
> > > sources). and i have trouble as well to play with jack without being
> > > root,
> > 
> > General consensus seems to be that a 2.4 multimedia kernel is the 'stable' 
> > approach. You won't have to run Jack as root if you run a patched multimedia 
> > kernel. You probably won't need to do a lot of tweaking. Best approach is 
> > probably to get a working system with 2.4 and then upgrade to 2.6 only if 
> > you're really not happy with results. Personally, I will be happy to wait 
> > until 2.6 is more stable.
> 
> Agreed, I would only go to 2.6 is you really need some features in it -
> its basicly stopped one of my machines from being a useful audio box.
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> - Steve
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