21 Dec
2015
21 Dec
'15
12:42 a.m.
On Sun, 20 Dec 2015, Karen Lewellen wrote:
At the same time I am posting here, I am posting on
the talk list of a LUG
here in the greater Toronto Area.
Two situations that members have asked about, referenced are bringing up a
couple of questions for me.
of the popular Linux distributions specifically developed for the
professional audio community, which is more likely to allow for command
line access?
From the login window control alt F1 to F6 will bring
up a terminal
screen. All will also have the Xterm or something like it often with
a
keyboard shortcut to make it open. Rather than using mutiple VTs, I would
suggest using dbus_launch to start a text based session manager such as
screen and use that to switch from one terminal to another. That way
jackdbus enabled commands can connect from one terminal to the next. I use
screen for my login to my server where I can switch between this mail
client (alpine) and irssi for IRC as well as a terminal for server
maintenance (from within my LAN).
My second question is tied to latency. I believe this
issue came up when I
first asked about outfitting a computer for Linux audio work.
One person here tells me that there here are low latency kernel tools that
address the problem. the question is going to be if those tools work with
older distributions, squeeze for example, because more up to date Kernels do
not always support hardware synthesizers.
Any kernel 2.6 and up can be made RT, from the early 3.* kernels there
have been "lowlatency" versions that can work very well with no patching.
so, I have a choice. build Linux audio setup with
zero chance to use the box
directly, seems most likely right now, and does not bother me very much since
the screen readers are rather dreadful, or build a setup with a slight door
open on that use the machine directly front. I already know ssh telnet is
It is fully possible to start a session and using CTL/ALT/F1 get a
terminal and either just log in or ssh user@localhost from the same
machine. So far nobody has dropped VTs that I know of.
--
Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net