[LAU] Low Latency Kernel for openSUSE 10.2 x86_64 - please help

[david]

Well, on my laptop ... with kernel 2.6.18-3, removable devices are 
detected and automounted. With 2.6.21-2, they are not. So there might be 
other reasons for not going with things closer to "latest and greatest". ;-)

Mark Knecht wrote:
> Cannot help you with anything Suse related but why settle for a kernel
> as old as 2.6.19? With 2.6.23 stuff starting to appear it seems like a
> lot of work to end up quite far behind.
> 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/
> 
> On 9/16/07, David Haggett <david at haggett.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hello, List
>>
>> Until recently I have been running SUSE 9.3 x86_64 with a self-compiled
>> realtime kernel (using the realtime-lsm).  I have now upgraded to openSUSE
>> 10.2 because I was having difficulties installing the latest versions of
>> certain applications.
>>
>> I'm very happy with the distribution generally, but I'd now like to get my
>> audio performance back to what it was.  Via the installation and set-up forum
>> at jacklab, I have been directed to realtime kernel, kernel-source and PAM
>> packages for x86_64 at:
>>
>> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/appleonkel/openSUSE_10.2/x86_64/
>>
>> Have downloaded the packages but have not yet installed them.  Unfortunately
>> the thread dried up before it answered my supplementary questions.
>>
>> Firstly I noticed that the kernel and kernel-source packages have different
>> release numbers.  Does this matter?  I need to compile the nvidia driver to
>> get X back after the install.
>>   kernel-rt-2.6.19.1-4.1.x86_64.rpm
>>   kernel-source-2.6.19.1-3.1.x86_64.rpm
>>
>> The other point I'm confused on is how to safely install the RPM.  Is it
>> really as simple as rpm -Uvh or are there other steps.  Does installing the
>> new kernel wipe out the old one, or will it install alongside the default
>> one?

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