20 Feb
2009
20 Feb
'09
9:37 p.m.
A quick heads up for those who may be interested.
After my G4 laptop (museum piece) had a large cough and required
brain surgery, i needed to install a new OS, so i'd thought i'd give Debian
5 (Lenny) PPC a try.
Works a treat, 'out of the box', so to speak.
No PPC RT kernel but sound, vid, etc, all installed and ran without any
tweaks or workarounds.
The new LXDE Desktop Environment is rather special, particularly for my old
laptop, and its meagre 512mb ram, and quite a bit more responsive than
heavier offerings. (I ran both Kubuntu, and Ubuntu on the LT before this
using KDE and Gnome respectively)
The kernel is 2.6.26-1, and midi works fine.
I'd be interested to know if Debian 5 works well on 32 or 64 bit PCs, and if
there's an RT option.
The only apps that won't install are Denemo, and Musescore, at the moment.
(Denemo can't find my fluidsynth or Sndfile libs which is no doubt user
error, and Musescore keeps giving me a T1 key error/RTC timer error, and
won't play at all, but it's been doing that on my Linux PPC for a while.)
Thumbs up to the Debian team. Based only on my brief personal observation, i
reckon they've done well.
"Out of the box."
Alex.
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22 Feb
22 Feb
9:42 a.m.
lenny works well on both 32 and 64 bit (I have amd64 at home and a intel in
the rehearsal"room", both dual core)
There is no RT option in debian but recompiling the kernel using the debian
way is very straightforward.
Raffaele
2009/2/21 alex stone <compose59(a)gmail.com>
I'd be interested to know if Debian 5 works well on 32 or 64 bit PCs, and
if there's an RT option.
The only apps that won't install are Denemo, and Musescore, at the moment.
(Denemo can't find my fluidsynth or Sndfile libs which is no doubt user
error, and Musescore keeps giving me a T1 key error/RTC timer error, and
won't play at all, but it's been doing that on my Linux PPC for a while.)
Thumbs up to the Debian team. Based only on my brief personal observation,
i reckon they've done well.
"Out of the box."
Alex.
Parchment Studios (It started as a joke...)
11:26 a.m.
Cassiel wrote:
lenny works well on both 32 and 64 bit (I have amd64
at home and a
intel in the rehearsal"room", both dual core)
There is no RT option in debian but recompiling the kernel using the
debian way is very straightforward.
Raffaele
2009/2/21 alex stone <compose59(a)gmail.com <mailto:compose59@gmail.com>>
I'd be interested to know if Debian 5 works well on 32 or 64 bit
PCs, and if there's an RT option.
The only apps that won't install are Denemo, and Musescore, at the
moment. (Denemo can't find my fluidsynth or Sndfile libs which
is no doubt user error, and Musescore keeps giving me a T1 key
error/RTC timer error, and won't play at all, but it's been doing
that on my Linux PPC for a while.)
Thumbs up to the Debian team. Based only on my brief personal
observation, i reckon they've done well.
"Out of the box."
Alex.
Parchment Studios (It started as a joke...)
Hi,
I'm running Sidux/Lenny/64Studio mutant in my laptop, and 64 Studio's
latest kernel 2.6.29-1-multimedia by Free Ekanyaka works fine.
Add "deb http://apt.64studio.com/backports hardy-backports main" in
sources.list
(Yes, Hardy.)
and install linux-image-2.6.29-1-multimedia
Should work with plain Lenny as well?
Tapani
3:37 p.m.
Raffaele, thanks for the info. I'm not sure how well i'd do making an RT
kernel for a powerpc build. I couldn't get it working when i tried Ubuntu,
but i just might have another try with Debian ppc, and see what happens.
Alex.
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Cassiel <raffaele.morelli(a)gmail.com> wrote:
lenny works well on both 32 and 64 bit (I have amd64
at home and a intel in
the rehearsal"room", both dual core)
There is no RT option in debian but recompiling the kernel using the debian
way is very straightforward.
Raffaele
2009/2/21 alex stone <compose59(a)gmail.com>
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I'd be interested to know if Debian 5 works well on 32 or 64 bit PCs, and
if there's an RT option.
The only apps that won't install are Denemo, and Musescore, at the moment.
(Denemo can't find my fluidsynth or Sndfile libs which is no doubt user
error, and Musescore keeps giving me a T1 key error/RTC timer error, and
won't play at all, but it's been doing that on my Linux PPC for a while.)
Thumbs up to the Debian team. Based only on my brief personal observation,
i reckon they've done well.
"Out of the box."
Alex.
Parchment Studios (It started as a joke...)
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23 Feb
5:40 a.m.
Starting from the standard config file in /boot/ and applying the RT patch
(and related features in menuconfig) should be really safe on ppc too.
Once you get a bootable kernel you can prune it step by step according to
your hardware.
I always suggest
this<http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Low_latency_howto>how…
(apolgize for repetitiveness) except for alsa compilation (we are on
debian ;-) ) and for OSS support which I always turn off during menuconfig.
Furthermore, regarding the make-kpkg command is better to issue something
like:
make-kpkg --append-to-version -rt-xx --revision xx --initrd kernel_image
raffaele
2009/2/22 alex stone <compose59(a)gmail.com>
Raffaele, thanks for the info. I'm not sure how
well i'd do making an RT
kernel for a powerpc build. I couldn't get it working when i tried Ubuntu,
but i just might have another try with Debian ppc, and see what happens.
Alex.
2:45 p.m.
Raffaele, thanks again for the useful info. I'm close to going home in the
next few days, so i'm keen to try this out, and see what happens.
You convinced me. :)
Alex.
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Cassiel <raffaele.morelli(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Starting from the standard config file in /boot/ and
applying the RT patch
(and related features in menuconfig) should be really safe on ppc too.
Once you get a bootable kernel you can prune it step by step according to
your hardware.
I always suggest
this<http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Low_latency_howto>how… (apolgize
for repetitiveness) except for alsa compilation (we are on
debian ;-) ) and for OSS support which I always turn off during menuconfig.
Furthermore, regarding the make-kpkg command is better to issue something
like:
make-kpkg --append-to-version -rt-xx --revision xx --initrd kernel_image
raffaele
2009/2/22 alex stone <compose59(a)gmail.com>
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Raffaele, thanks for the info. I'm not sure
how well i'd do making an RT
kernel for a powerpc build. I couldn't get it working when i tried Ubuntu,
but i just might have another try with Debian ppc, and see what happens.
Alex.
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24 Feb
2:55 a.m.
Raffaele, it works.
Took me a couple of tries, but i now have PPC rt on the laptop, and firing.
Thanks for the help!
Alex.
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:45 PM, alex stone <compose59(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Raffaele, thanks again for the useful info. I'm close to going home in the
next few days, so i'm keen to try this out, and see what happens.
You convinced me. :)
Alex.
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On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Cassiel <raffaele.morelli(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
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Starting from the standard config file in /boot/ and applying the RT patch
(and related features in menuconfig) should be really safe on ppc too.
Once you get a bootable kernel you can prune it step by step according to
your hardware.
I always suggest
this<http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Low_latency_howto>how… (apolgize
for repetitiveness) except for alsa compilation (we are on
debian ;-) ) and for OSS support which I always turn off during menuconfig.
Furthermore, regarding the make-kpkg command is better to issue something
like:
make-kpkg --append-to-version -rt-xx --revision xx --initrd kernel_image
raffaele
2009/2/22 alex stone <compose59(a)gmail.com>
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Raffaele, thanks for the info. I'm not sure
how well i'd do making an RT
kernel for a powerpc build. I couldn't get it working when i tried Ubuntu,
but i just might have another try with Debian ppc, and see what happens.
Alex.
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3:59 a.m.
Great!
"First you master your instrument, then you master your music...then you
master rt kernels .... then forget all of that and just play!"
(Paraphrasing C.Parker)
Have fun
r
2009/2/24 alex stone <compose59(a)gmail.com>
Raffaele, it works.
Took me a couple of tries, but i now have PPC rt on the laptop, and firing.
Thanks for the help!
Alex.
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