[LAU] suspending with realtime kernel

[Justin Smith]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Robert Persson
<halfbeinghalfthing at gmail.com> wrote:
> Geoff King a écrit :
>
> I've been having a problem which isn't directly to do with audio—it's to
> do with the Ubuntu realtime kernel—but I haven't got any answers from
> the Ubuntu forums and this is a real showstopper as far as doing audio
> work goes.
>
>
>
> I've tried the ubuntu realtime kernel several times. I'm not suprised by
> your
> findings.  Check out these links. I would suggest you file a bug report to
> ubuntu launchpad.
>
>
>
> Thanks David and Geoff.
>
> It doesn't look very well, does it? I certainly had realtime working on this
> machine at some time in the past because I remember launching and using
> Ardour. Did all these problems creep in with Intrepid?
>
> I actually tried disabling networking before suspending last night. This
> time the interface didn't lock up immediately, but a whole raft of things
> went weird one after the other, taking me to the point where I had to hold
> down the power button for five seconds. Disabling networking altogether is
> not an option because I need to be able to switch between different
> activities easily; this isn't a dedicated audio workstation.
>
> Do you really need -rt for your work?
>
>
>
> Unfortunately, because I do actually need to work with audio in real time, I
> do need -rt. I shall certainly file a bug report, but I notice that the
> existing bug reports have been assigned low priority. Since it doesn't look
> like these problems are likely to be fixed anytime soon, I'm getting to the
> point where I have to consider ditching Linux and using Windows for
> everything. I need to be able to do a bit of audio work here and there and
> then get back onto other things, so rebooting all the time is not an option.
> The only other option would be to consider switching to a more
> audio-oriented distribution, by which I mean one that will also let me do
> normal desktop stuff (Gnome, Skype, Amarok, aMule etc. etc.) without too
> much hassle – I don't have the time to do the Gentoo thing over again.
> Would something like Fedora/Planet CCRMA fit the bill? I notice however that
> on the main Planet CCRMA page it says that not all packages have been
> compiled in 64 bit versions. Does that mean I should forget the idea?
>
> Robert
>
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Regarding RT and ardour, you can run jack and ardour without RT.