[LAU] Best realtime audio dstro for Eee

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On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:50:44 -0700 (PDT)
Norval Watson <norv2001 at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> 
> Hi y'all,
> I want to install a realtime audio distro on my new Asus Eee 901.
> I need a 2.6.29 realtime kernel or higher to support the hardware on my Eee.
> I have got the 2G RAM (haven't swapped it in yet).
> AFAIK, options include:
> DebianEeePC http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC
> ArchLinux http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Asus_Eee_PC_901
> Eeebuntu http://www.eeebuntu.org/
> Indamixx USB stick, when it's available, (and it's not free)
> 
> I have been using Debian unstable for some years so I'm most familiar with that.
> Any suggestions welcome, particularly regarding optimizing the kernel.
> TIA
> Norv

Hi,

I like Debian the best and have great results with realtime on my  
eee-pc 901. You might like to enter my thread "Pianoteq on Linux  
netbook" on http://www.forum-pianoteq.com, where I described a few  
tunings I've made. Because I was too lazy to build my own RT-kernel, I  
installed the kernel from AV-Linux (which seems to be a very good  
distro btw):
http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux2/linux-image-2.6.29-rt1-rt_2.6.29-rt1-rt-10.00.Custom_i386.deb

I can play the physical modeled pianos with latencies of 2,9ms at 44,1  
kHz for example.