[LAU] Installing realtime kernel - getting it to work.

[Lee Revell]

On 4/3/07, Brad Fuller <brad at sonaural.com> wrote:
> > well.. I was just following the directions - I haven't done a
> > realtime kernel on gentoo and am using/trying the proaudio overlay.
> >
> > Yeah well, the howto uses 2.6.16 as example kernel, as 2.6.16 was the
> > current stable kernel when I wrote it. But hmm, Frieder still marked
> > 2.6.16-rt29 as the stable rt-sources in
> > the overlay - not sure why exactly, maybe perceived level of risk -
> > anyways in case of PAM and the kernel, I personally recommend using
> > latest ~ masked pam and =rt-sources-2.6.20-r8 :)
> >
> >
> >   Right, I was using 2.6.16-rt29 and it's working with the pam 0.78.
> > I'll try the newest kernel.
> Ok.. I've finally got some time and am now on the newest kernel:
> bfuller at ives ~ $ uname -a
> Linux ives 2.6.20-rt8 #2 PREEMPT Thu Mar 29 21:32:54 PDT 2007 i686
> Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1700MHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
>
> but, I get clicks and jumps when playing anything. I don't get clicks
> and jumps with standard kernels. What could I look at? dmesg didn't seem
> to have anything of relevance to this. Should it?

Did you set the priorities of your soundcard IRQ and jackd correctly?

Lee