[ardour-users] realtime kernel on ubuntu

[Nicola Mattei]

2007/5/3, Ulrich Steffens <ulrich at barfuss-jerusalem.org>:
> Am Donnerstag, den 03.05.2007, 11:55 +0200 schrieb Nicola Mattei:
> > >
> > Ops, sorry, I didn't read that your arch was amd64. AFAIK it's already
> > in main in gutsy and there's the build for x86_64 too there so you can
> > try backporting it putting a deb-src line in your sources.list
> > pointing to the gutsy archive like this:
> > deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe main
> > multiverse restricted
> > then
> > sudo apt-get update
> > mkdir linux-rt-2.6.22
> > cd linux-rt-2.6.22
> > sudo apt-get build-dep linux-source-2.6.22
> > (here it will install some dep if needed)
> > sudo apt-get source -b linux-source-2.6.22
> > (builds all the kernel images, take a _long_ time...)
> > then you should have a
> > linux-image-2.6.22-x-rt
> > (or something like that) debian package, the right image is the one
> > with -rt in the name.
> >
> > Of course use this at your own risk, I was able to do the same (and
> > all went well) to backport the lowlatency image from feisty (when it
> > was the unstable branch) to edgy, now I'm not at home so I can't try
> > it but if you try it keep also your current kernel installed in your
> > system in order to be able to boot with it if something goes wrong
> > with the new one.
> >
> > Hope it helps, but be carefull as you are installing a kernel from a
> > development branch so it may work or not.
>
> isn't the lowlatency kernel in feisty what he wants?
>
No, it's not a realtime kernel with ingo molnar's patches, it's only a
kernel built with some lowlatency options