Cassiel wrote: (am i the only one to be aware of this?) midi is seriously broken on 2.6.26-rt, specially when driven outboard; events delivered out of time if at all, outrageous jitter and unpredictable drop outs; internally sequenced material (eg. queueing events to a softsynth) might work barely but that is just little comfort. note that this badness applies to PREEMPT_RT kernels >= 2.6.26, vanilla is fine afaict. all that trouble seems to be related to a regression in 2.6.26-rc2 that just made the bkl non preemptible anymore, leaving the -rt people with a herculean task to comply--look after Ingo Molnar's "Kill the BKL" tree for news... cheers -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc(a)rncbc.org

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 09:56 +0000, Rui Nuno Capela wrote: I don't get any messages at all. Well, I do get _one_ and that's it. And the software that uses MIDI (kmidimonitor) is left is a bad hanging unkillable state. I tried several kernel options to try to get my realtime kernel to be as close as the Fedora kernel (which works) but no results so far. The timing problems might be related to the new RTC interface in newer kernels. Apparently ALSA cannot/does not use it, and that might lead to bad timing. As MIDI does not work I could not test for timing but maybe somebody else can try to use CONFIG_RTC instead of CONFIG_RTC_CLASS, if you use the former then ALSA can use CONFIG_SND_RTCTIMER... But this is just a guess on my part. -- Fernando