[Fedora-music-list] CCRMA kernel in FC5?

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 16:31 -0700, Anthony Green wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 15:56 -0700, thewade wrote:
> > But I am a long time CCRMA fan and the packages and kernel offered by 
> > CCRMA for FC4 really make my musical life easier. And so I ask: is 
> > there an FC5 CCRMA kernel and packages repository yet?
> 
> I don't think there's a kernel, but there are other packages. See:
> 
> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetccrma/5/i386/repodata/index.html

But also look at...

http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetcore/5/i386/repodata/index.html

> A couple of those packages have subsequently been merged into Fedora
> Extras.  jack-audio-connection-kit just found a Extras sponsor today, so
> I expect many other packages should be arriving in Extras soon.
> 
> > I would really love to not have to go back to building my own kernels 
> > using Ingo M.'s patches and then having to build all my sound tools 
> > myself using rpmbuild.
> 
> The stock kernel works well enough for me.  Just follow the directions
> in /usr/share/doc/jack-audio-connection-kit-0.101.1/README.Fedora.

Nit picking, of course, those directions only tell you how to get memory
locking and realtime scheduler access as a normal non-root user. Those
have been a given for Planet CCRMA users for quite a while :-) While for
many users the stock kernel will be enough, those that want to use very
small buffers for good realtime response for synthesis or digital signal
processing will find the standard kernel will not be enough (ie: they
will experience more xruns than with one patched with Ingo's kernel)

-- Fernando