[LAU] jack2 set to realtime / soft mode, normal kernel ?

[Jonathan E. Brickman]

Harry, rather good guess :-)  Not Firewire.  AudioTrak Prodigy HD2, PCI.
It has been extremely well-behaved.  

In your opinion, what is the advantage of the Firewire approach?
Cabling?  Replaceability?  Ease of multitrack functionality?  The
Firewire daisychain capability (does it still exist)?

I just checked out the Pure::Dyne web site.  Very promising and
up-to-date, not like I last saw it a while back.  Questions:  

1.  Does it install onto hard drive reasonably easily?  I noticed that
that page in the wiki isn't there yet, just a title/placeholder.  Can it
do RAID-1 without terrible pain?

2.  If it's designed explicitly for DVD/USB use (and it looks like it
is), is that how it's updated?  In other words, can I expect to just
update my system device and it will use an existing older-version
profile reliably?  This would be a very good way to keep a production
machine.

3.  Does it include thorough current compilation capabilities?

J.E.B.

On Sat, 2010-07-10 at 18:35 +0100, Harry Van Haaren wrote:
> Hey Johnathan,
> 
> Mind expanding a bit on what soundcard your using, kernel version,
> jack frames & period? 
> 
> If im to guess, you're not on a firewire card, usually the -RT is
> really nessiary to ensure
> no XRuns.. 
> 
> Maybe you are though.. that's when I'd be really intrested! -Harry
> 
> PS: I'm not on Fedora at the moment, running Pure::Dyne latest stable.
> Very good -RT performance
> on this laptop with that kernel & firewire stack. :-)
> 
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Jonathan E. Brickman
> <jeb at joshuacorps.org> wrote:
>         I was very surprised to see Jack2 working well set to realtime
>         + soft mode, with a normal (non-rt) kernel, giving me 2.67 ms
>         stated latency without kernel crashes in Fedora 13.
>