4 Aug
2005
4 Aug
'05
2:31 p.m.
For anyone that has a solid audio setup on SuSE 9.3 professional...
please let me know if there's any nessesary steps to take to get things
running properly. In prior versions of SuSE they ran 2.4 kernels, and
everything ran great right out of the box. I haven't gotten to the point
were I can try recording yet, but I thought I would get the scoop from
anyone that has an optimal running audio setup. Please point me to any
docs if there is any patching or recompiling to do because I'm
inexperienced on both points.
I would assume the two main things is making sure everything is set up
for low latency recording and being able to run programs "realtime". Did
I miss anything? Do I still need to make programs suid root to be able
to run realtime?
Right now I've created Redhat 9 boot disks and will be installing Planet
CCRMA. But I'd rather go with SuSE if it's possible to get audio set up
for optimum use. It's just that Redhat 9 has been discontinued, and I
get the impression Redhat isn't as "complete" as SuSE anyways (the
install disk couldn't even reconize my monitor). I'm trying to have
*one* setup that is (both) my "general" computer setup (and) my digital
audio workstation at the same time. And since SuSE is such a "complete"
distrob, I'd prefer to go with it. But if it's just too much to get
audio set up for optimum audio use, then I may have to do a duel boot
situation with SuSE/Planet.
Thanks,
Rocco
7:08 p.m.
On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 12:03, Paul Davis wrote:
Paul,
Is it really ready for prime time? My FC1/CCRMA setup is very
stable but I certainly like FC3 (I use it at work along with RHEL4).
--
Jan "Evil Twin" Depner
The Fuzzy Dice
http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/fuzzy.html
"As we enjoy great advantages from the invention of others, we should be
glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this
we should do freely and generously."
Benjamin Franklin, on declining patents offered by the governor of
Pennsylvania for his "Pennsylvania Fireplace", c. 1744
Right now
I've created Redhat 9 boot disks and will be installing Planet
CCRMA. But I'd rather go with SuSE if it's possible to get audio set up
RH9? Why would you use RH9? Fedora Core 3 would be the starting point
for any current Planet CCRMA system.
4:50 p.m.
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Hello Rocco,
LinuxMedia schrieb:
| For anyone that has a solid audio setup on SuSE 9.3 professional...
Lucky me - i have one, that runs right away with ardour, Jack, H2 and
Muse compiled from source and everything else from Suse-DVD-FTP and Packman.
| please let me know if there's any nessesary steps to take to get things
| running properly.
Fetch a soundcard with an envy24-chipset - these Cards offer
Alsa/Jack-compatible HW-Monitoring - thus you can work with
near-zero-latency as normal user with the Standard-Kernel. No Patches,
no scripts, no trouble - just uncheck "Realtime" in qjackctl and
everything runs flawlessly.
This works fine for me with a Terratec EWX 24/96, i can edit and arrange
in Ardour, play with Muse and H2 and browse the Web and have Open Office
~ opened all at the same Time in KDE as well as in Fluxbox....
Alles Gute, bis bald,
Hartmut Noack
http://www.linuxuse.de/snd
p.s.: of course this works with other soundcards too, everything runs
stable and nicely if Jack does *not* run realtime - yet if you need to
record to multiple Tracks or if you need near-zero-latency for other
reasons, you´ll need better hardware or an own kernel plus self-compiled
packages for audio.
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6:45 p.m.
Am Donnerstag, 4. August 2005 18:19 schrieb LinuxMedia:
For anyone that has a solid audio setup on SuSE 9.3
professional...
please let me know if there's any nessesary steps to take to get things
running properly. In prior versions of SuSE they ran 2.4 kernels, and
everything ran great right out of the box. I haven't gotten to the point
were I can try recording yet, but I thought I would get the scoop from
anyone that has an optimal running audio setup. Please point me to any
docs if there is any patching or recompiling to do because I'm
inexperienced on both points.
I would assume the two main things is making sure everything is set up
for low latency recording and being able to run programs "realtime". Did
I miss anything? Do I still need to make programs suid root to be able
to run realtime?
Right now I've created Redhat 9 boot disks and will be installing Planet
CCRMA. But I'd rather go with SuSE if it's possible to get audio set up
for optimum use. It's just that Redhat 9 has been discontinued, and I
get the impression Redhat isn't as "complete" as SuSE anyways (the
install disk couldn't even reconize my monitor). I'm trying to have
*one* setup that is (both) my "general" computer setup (and) my digital
audio workstation at the same time. And since SuSE is such a "complete"
distrob, I'd prefer to go with it. But if it's just too much to get
audio set up for optimum audio use, then I may have to do a duel boot
situation with SuSE/Planet.
Thanks,
Rocco
Hello Rocco,
I'm using SUSE 9.2 and did some changes to increase the realtime perfomance
for SuSE 9.3 it should be similar. Maybe it's not the best and easiest way,
but it was succesful for me.
1. Install the Kernelsources with Yast.
2. copy the config from /boot (config-"Your Kernel) to /usr/src/linux/.config
(enables nearly all modules . if you know your requirements it might be
better to configurate it by hand)
3. make menuconfig (install make, gcc, and ncurses-devel before)
4. Choose your Processor family and enable preemptible Kernel
5. Set your own suffix at Build-Options (e.g. realtime)
6. make and install the kernel (refer the adminstration manual, there is a
good description) with your suffix (you can see the right name at the folder
where it install the modules after make modules_install)
7. don't forget to make an initrd for this kernel (mkinitrd
-k /boot/"your_new_kernel" -i initrd-"your suffix"
8. add Kernel and initrd to the grub list (similar to the original Kernel but
with your suffix)
9. restart
10. install necessary km_modules (with Yast) (e.g. km_submount, or wireless
lan modules which are not in the kernel. You can find them
at /usr/src/kernel-modules after insatllation with yast.
make and make install
11.Download realtime-lsm and compile it for your new kernel
12.Add the follwing to your /etc/modprobe.conf
#realtime-lsm options
options realtime allcaps=1 gid=17
Group 17 is group "sound" at my SuSE (check it for yours)
13. Open Yast => Editor for etc/sysconfig files and add the module "realtime"
at System/Kernel/MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT
Then SUSE should automatically load the realtime module at boot (you can check
the boot messages or try lsmod|grep realtime after rebooting
Now it should work. Try
jackd -Rv -d alsa -d hw:"Your Soundcard" or use qjackctl
If you have still many xruns. remove jackd in Yast (without removing other)
download the sources. Recompile it with capabilities and a default_temp_dir
e.g. /tmp/jack
create the folder /tmp/jack
add the following line to your /etc/fstab
none /tmp/jack tmpfs defaults 0 0
and restart.
Good Luck
Martin
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