[LAU] installation weirdness

Dave Phillips dlphillips at woh.rr.com
Wed Apr 29 08:50:32 EDT 2009


Jostein Chr. Andersen wrote:
> Den Wednesday 29 April 2009 13.38.06 skrev Dave Phillips:
>   
>> Any advice from the experts before I try the 64-bit install ?
>>     
>
> The only two issues I know about is that you should avoid ext4 for now and you 
> might experience (I did) system freeze (on smp machines) with the RT-kernel. 
> If you get system freeze, then just add nosmp to your kernel parameter in 
> Grub's menu.lst and then you're ok.
>   

Thanks, I'll remember that tip.

> I choosed to just install Kubuntu this time and then add the RT kernel. I have 
> also compiled almost every music related apps (from jackd with deps and 
> upwards) and libs from scratch. No problems so far. The reason of compiling is 
> that the libs IMO tends to shortly be to old when some new plugins and apps 
> arrive.
>   

I usually discard unwanted apps and build the ones I want. However, I 
want to write a review of an unaltered Ubuntu Studio 9.04, so I need to 
install it on some machine here. The laptop tends to be my experimental 
box, but I'll install the distro on another machine if necessary.

Best,

dp




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