rncbc.org a.k.a. Rui Nuno Capela

ahoy Rui,

first, thanks for all the great work you have done for GNU+Linux/FLOSS audio work. QjackCtl and rtirq are must-haves, and looking forward to Qtractor. hopefully we can make music to match it. thanks for making it possible.

i am running rtirq with Gentoo 2.6.33.7-rt29-libre #3 SMP PREEMPT RT x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHz Genuine Intel GNU/Linux (w/ irqbalance, CPUs on performance), and had some questions after updating to the most recent version 20090920, as well as seeing some posts about how to configure rtirq with the new Juju FireWire stack.

Hey,
I was told that rtirq depends on the kernel used!!
I'm using kernel26rt-2.6.26.5_rt9...

I have been using Redhat products since RH-5, and presently I'm on Fedora Core 6. However, I'm ready for a divorce from Redhat, as I cannot stand their update schedule. Bringing out a new version every 6 months is just ridiculous, and what is worse, anything more then two versions old gets deprecated....hence, no more updates.

I would like to have something that has at least a few years of updates/download support, and I would also prefer to stay with somthing RPM based, as I am most familiar with that. I generally convert all my compiled sources into RPMs at some point.

Well, it's hard to say why I'm writting this here… Maybe due the great warm feeling inside. The arising Opensuse 10.3 (still beta now) contains realtime kernel in base repository again:

http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/i586/

What a good news! Of course I can use kernel-rt from jacklab.org in 10.2, but it breaks o lot of dependencies I have in system e.g. nvidia drivers etc. And now there could be latency under 1ms out of the box. And no xruns.

It's reason for a small celebration.
$cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth