[LAU] rtirq

Will Godfrey willgodfrey at musically.me.uk
Sun Mar 15 09:18:45 UTC 2015


On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 09:29:25 +0100
Jeremy Jongepier <jeremy at autostatic.com> wrote:

> On 03/15/2015 12:12 AM, Len Ovens wrote:
> > 
> > There was a comment a while ago about not listing rtc in rtirq a while
> > ago, that there are other better timers to use on modern systems anyway.
> > 
> 
> Hello Len,
> 
> There is barely any software left that uses rtc, most MIDI software uses
> the ALSA timers (snd-timer or snd-hrtimer). Just installed Muse and the
> version that got installed uses rtc, maybe Rosegarden uses rtc too but
> afaik those are the only ones still relying on rtc for their timing.
> Most other software that uses ALSA for MIDI get their timing from the
> ALSA timers. You

Don't know about others, but Rosegarden gives you a choice of all the timers it
can find.

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