[LAU] gentoo pain

Brett McCoy idragosani at gmail.com
Fri Feb 5 09:07:01 EST 2010


On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:55 AM, james morris <james at jwm-art.net> wrote:

> I've started trying to get a RT pre-empt system using Gentoo. It's
> painful. Spent most of my time so far just trying to boot a custom
> kernel which I had zero problems with in Debian.
>
> Is the pro_audio overlay any good? does it have the latest s/w?
>
> Before I built a custom 2.6.31-rt20 kernel, I used the pro_audio overlay
> to get rt-sources which gave 2.6.16 which seems ancient.
>
> Would anyone actually recommend gentoo for setting up an RT audio system?

I'm running a gentoo audio workstation, using 2.6.30 kernel, with
realtime. I do use the audio overlay for some things, like jackd, but
other things I compile by hand since the overlay is a little behind
the releases. The 2.6.24 kernel is also known to work well with audio

Gentoo is not for the faint of heart, to be sure. You will spend a lot
of time getting it setup and tweaked.

-- Brett
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