Cannot help you with anything Suse related but why settle for a kernel as old as 2.6.19? With 2.6.23 stuff starting to appear it seems like a lot of work to end up quite far behind. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/ On 9/16/07, David Haggett <david(a)haggett.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Hello, List > > Until recently I have been running SUSE 9.3 x86_64 with a self-compiled > realtime kernel (using the realtime-lsm). I have now upgraded to openSUSE > 10.2 because I was having difficulties installing the latest versions of > certain applications. > > I'm very happy with the distribution generally, but I'd now like to get my > audio performance back to what it was. Via the installation and set-up forum > at jacklab, I have been directed to realtime kernel, kernel-source and PAM > packages for x86_64 at: > > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/appleonkel/openSUSE_10.2/x8… > > Have downloaded the packages but have not yet installed them. Unfortunately > the thread dried up before it answered my supplementary questions. > > Firstly I noticed that the kernel and kernel-source packages have different > release numbers. Does this matter? I need to compile the nvidia driver to > get X back after the install. > kernel-rt-2.6.19.1-4.1.x86_64.rpm > kernel-source-2.6.19.1-3.1.x86_64.rpm > > The other point I'm confused on is how to safely install the RPM. Is it > really as simple as rpm -Uvh or are there other steps. Does installing the > new kernel wipe out the old one, or will it install alongside the default > one?

Am Sonntag, 16. September 2007 schrieb david: Here removable devices are detected the right way on 2.6.21-* (both amd64 and intel32 but with both with gentoo). Maybe 2.6.18 was the last version with devfs and you didn't yet make that switch?

Or its just a Suse-patch that breaks it?

Did you try a vanilla 2.6.21?

And: 2.6.21 isn't "latest and greatest", 2.6.2[23] or git is ;-)

Am Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:54:52 +0100 schrieb David Haggett <david(a)haggett.demon.co.uk>uk>: > Hello, List > > Until recently I have been running SUSE 9.3 x86_64 with a > self-compiled realtime kernel (using the realtime-lsm). I have now > upgraded to openSUSE 10.2 because I was having difficulties > installing the latest versions of certain applications.

It will. Anway you can't install nvidia without the matching sources. Try http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/x 86_64/kernel-rt-2.6.22.5-18.x86_64.rpm with http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/x 86_64/kernel-source-2.6.22.5-18.x86_64.rpm This is the kernel for the coming openSUSE-10.3 but it still works under 10.2.

Some kernel modules needs kernel-syms. If you want only compile nvidia it isn't needed at all.

> ERROR: The kernel header file >        '/lib/modules/2.6.22.5-18-rt/build/include/linux/version.h' > does not exist.  The most likely reason for this is that the kernel > source files in '/lib/modules/2.6.22.5-18-rt/build' have not been > configured. > > Can boot back into the default kernel without a problem, but am > completely at a loss.  I know this is getting a bit off topic for the > list but would be grateful for any further advice.

Maybe try a more recent version of nvidia drivers. Sounds yours is quite old, version.h is gone some time already. Latest nvidia should work fine.

> > Maybe try a more recent version of nvidia drivers. Sounds yours is > > quite old, version.h is gone some time already. Latest nvidia should > > work fine. > > Erm, no. > > I'm using the latest NVidia driver with a release date of June 2007. > There isn't a more recent one. > NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.11.pkg2.run > > I needed to update it when I upgraded my video card. So maybe NVidia > need to update their drivers to work with 2.6.22?

Oh, that indeed is the latest one. I successfully compiled and installed that here today against 2.6.22.5-18 kernel-source. That's why I thought you must be using an older one. But that box is running openSUSE 10.3beta - so maybe there is some incompatibility between 10.3 and 10.2 after all?

Le Dimanche, 16 Septembre 2007 14:54:52 +0100, David Haggett <david(a)haggett.demon.co.uk> a écrit : This raises an interesting question. How come I can use the plain Fedora Core 6 kernel (and not the real-time CCRMA kernel) to do audio works on a x86_64 dual core with 4 GB RAM without any problems ? Is it because I'm not doing much ? I mean, I do not record a chamber orchestra in real time while jiggling the screen with beryl, compiling OpenOffice and letting goddamned beagle run loose all at the same time ? And leaving Konqueror open with one of those pages that mysteriously drains CPU cycles to make good measure. Or is it the dual core ? Or the RAM ?

Or is it because the Fedora team already incorporates real-time mechanism into their kernels ?