On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 22:23 +0000, james morris wrote:
> On 16/12/2009, "Martin Horn" <martin.horn@ostec.org> wrote:
>
> >Hi All,
> >
> >I need a 2.6.32 kernel for my soundcard to run, but I can't find it by:
>
> For what reason?

This is the important question.

It is reported that my soundcard (Native Instruments Audio 4 DJ) works best with 2.6.32 and that kernel 2.6.30 is required as minimum. The card uses the snd-usb-caiaq module and 2.6.32 is higly recommended because of Git commits a9b487f, ac9dd9d. I don't understand these in detail so I don't know how they would affect performance.

>
> >apt-cache search linux-headers
> >
> >only 2.6.28 is available on my ubuntustudio 8.04 machine and 2.6.31 on my
> >64studio 3.0 machine.
> >
> >How can I get a 2.6.32-rt kernel? Do I have to compile it myself?
>
> By Downloading the 2.6.32 kernel source and then downloading a patch
> (which does not exist yet) to make it rt.

You should NOT do this on Ubuntu Studio (or any Ubuntu) unless you want
to fix real borkage. Try upgrading to the latest Ubuntu Studio, it may
have 2.6.31 at least (not sure on whether they have 2.6.32, maybe in the
latest alpha?).

I installed a 2.6.31 kernel via apt-get on my 64studio machine but booting the kernel doesn't work ("this kernel requires the following features not present on your cpu: pae"). If anybody can help with this - thanks a lot!

A bit of an explanation, in Ubuntu (like most distros) the kernel
version and various packages in the system are closely tied together,
such that a jump from 2.6.28 to 2.6.32 is likely to result in quite a
few problems.

I understood that now, though I hope I will not have to wait for the next release to get my card to work...

Thanks again,
Martin