[LAU] PITA: RME HDSPe AIO

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Thu Jun 9 08:03:28 UTC 2011


Goran Mekić wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:10:33 -1000
> david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
> 
>> Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
>>> On 06/07/2011 10:27 AM, david wrote:
>>>> The last couple of Ubuntu releases have not included RT kernels because
>>>> Ubuntu thinks no one needs one. 
>>> Hello David,
>>>
>>> This is not entirely true. The maintainer of the rt kernel package has
>>> decided to call it a day a while ago and no one stepped up. Ubuntu (as
>>> an entity part of Canonical) thinks nothing, it's the community that
>>> dropped the support for this package because no one within the community
>>> stepped up to take over maintaining the rt kernel package. The Ubuntu
>>> dev maintaining this package was in no way affiliated with Canonical, he
>>> was a volunteer, just like a lot of other package maintainers. So imho
>>> it was not the fact that pro-audio users are being routinely ignored
>>> that caused the rt kernel package to get dropped, the cause was the fact
>>> that none of those pro-audio users saw the need of keeping this package
>>> in the official repo's. And even if they did see it they were unwilling,
>>> incapable or simply too little in number to participate in maintaining it.
>> Thanks, wasn't aware of that.
>>
>> I still don't like Ubuntu. ;-)
>>
>>> Linux and pro-audio is really about finding your balance if you care
>>> about the Linux OS. Sometimes that is friggin hard because in the end
>>> you want to make some music, not test kernels.
>> If I simply had an RT-kernel in a DEB package that worked, I'd be fine. 
>> None of my hardware here provides glitch-free audio performance except 
>> for effectsbox, which is running an audio distro that includes an RT 
>> kernel. Maybe a non-RT kernel work for people with heavier-duty hardware 
>> than mine. They don't on my hardware.
>>
> 
> 	Parts of RT kernel are in the main tree now, so maybe .39 would work for you. Have you tried it?

Upgraded the desktop machine to it, will see!

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David
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