[linux-audio-user] Is a stock 2.6.12 enough?

Eric Robert roberteric at neuf.fr
Wed Jun 22 10:56:41 EDT 2005


Shayne O'Connor wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 13:08 -0300, Ignacio Ramírez wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> If you have an independent kernel module, such as the semi-closed one
>>> that NVidia provides, it is clearly not patched for realtime! This is
>>> my
>>> case. Maybe for audio I should use the nv module included in the
>>> kernel
>>> distribution.   
>>
>>
>> Of course all bets are off if you load a closed source module.  You
>> should definitely use the nv driver.
>>
>>  
>>
> my system works fine with 2.6.12RC6 + rt_preempt + nvidia drivers (need 
> 3d acceleration to use Mixxx at its best) - no xruns, latency down to 
> 256 (can go to 128, but with the odd hiccup).
> 
> just about to compile the 2.6.12 vanilla with rt_preempt (if it's a 
> goer) ...
> 
> shayne
> 
Just compiled the 2.6.12 vanilla with rt_preempt but cannot build nvidia 
drivers, how did you do that?
Eric



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