[LAU] arch users?

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 08:58 -0600, Josh Lawrence wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Ray Rashif <schivmeister at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Just use the stock kernel and do your stuff. Once you have an optimal Jack
> > configuration, and you know how your workflow is, try a realtime kernel and
> > see if it helps. Any significant difference will be immediately noticeable.
> > If it's not significant enough, you won't notice anything, and therefore can
> > skip it altogether, i.e no point.
> 
> OK, well I've tried the stock kernel last night, and I have xruns
> galore.  should I now go build the kernel from aur?
> 
> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15224
> 
> ...appears to be the only one that isn't out-of-date and is generating
> some usage.
> 
I use kernel26-ice myself (with the BFS patchset) as well as maintaining
kernel26-rt-ice (rt and ice patchsets merged). I don't recommend the
latter, as there's serious crashing issues which I have as yet been
unable to track down. The former is just about as stable as you please.
The stock kernel config provided there (if you're 64-bit its mine) is
almost identical to the one in stock Arch kernel, so you should not get
any lack of functionality.

On the other hand, kernel26rt is maintained by schivmeister, I believe,
and he strives to keep it as up-to-date and stable as possible. It just
looks less used because -ice is much more popular than -rt (more people
have laptops than make music in Arch), but I've used it before I got my
-ice fetish, and it worked.