[ardour-users] Getting started

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Mon Jan 9 18:29:58 PST 2006


On 1/9/06, Phil Frost <indigo at bitglue.com> wrote:
> 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.

Yes, sorry. I thought that was obvious. Gentoo has no support for
Ingo's stuff so you always have to do that from source. On the other
hand there is no need to do realtime-lsm on your own as that *is* in
portage.

Sorry for any confusion.

Cheers,
Mark



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