[LAU] Realtime, but many xruns when jack is started. Debian Etch

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On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:37:35 +0200
Nigel Henry <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr> wrote:

> On Sunday 30 September 2007 16:11, Lars Luthman wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 16:09 +0200, Lars Luthman wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 16:02 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > > > On Debian Etch, using kernel 2.6.18-5-686, which I presume is a
> > > > realtime one, as when I start jack with qjackctl, and with the realtime
> > > > box checked, jack doesn't complain.
> > >
> > > You presume incorrectly. There are no realtime kernels in the main
> > > Debian repositories, and a patched kernel would have the version suffix
> > > -rtX. I don't know when jackd was changed to refuse to start with -R
> > > unless it could actually get realtime scheduling, but it was fairly
> > > recent - if you're using 0.101.1 it will probably start anyway.
> 
> I'd got so used to jack complaining when trying to use realtime, when it 
> wasn't available, that I presumed it was still the same, and the kernel was 
> realtime. I should have got used to the rt suffix by now, having used the 
> patched kernels from planetccrma for so long.
> >
> > Sorry for confusing things - you can of course get realtime scheduling
> > without having an RT-patched kernel. It's hard to get jackd to run
> > xrun-free without it though.
> 
> So what your saying, is that the realtime-lsm package of scripts may not be 
> too successful.
> 
> Do you know if there are any debian rt patched kernels available for other 
> debian based distros, that might work on Etch, or Lenny?
> 
> > --ll
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> Nigel.

64studio (V2) is based on debian etch and comes in 64 & 32 bit
versions. It is fully RT patched.

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