[ardour-users] Getting started

[Phil Frost]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 06:10:21PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 1/9/06, Petter Sundl?f <petter.sundlof at findus.dhs.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Matt Carr wrote:
> <SNIP>
> > > I have heard of a low latency patch and real time patch.  Where can I
> > > find those if I need them and how hard are they to install?
> >
> > If you've chose Gentoo, I take it you're familiar with patches and
> > compiling your own kernel.
> >
> 
> If he's on Gentoo he can just emerge it:
> 
> lightning ~ # emerge -pv realtime-lsm
> 
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/realtime-lsm-0.8.5-r1  0 kB
> 
> Total size of downloads: 0 kB
> lightning ~ #
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark

That will get the realtime-lsm module, which is not the same as ingo's
realtime prempt patches. The module allows non-root users to gain RT
priority. The patches reduce kernel latencies.