Re: Jackd hell and other oddities

2007-04-21 Thread Free Ekanayaka
Hi all, sorry for the delay. |--== Daniel James writes: DJ Hi Free, Well, a possible definition of the group could be the list of the Alioth's project members http://alioth.debian.org/projects/demudi DJ Do you think it would be possible to ask Nicola Bernardini to redirect DJ

Re: Jackd hell and other oddities

2007-04-13 Thread Marco Ghirlanda
Daniel, you are right, sorry. Let's see asking for it to Bernardini... Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Jackd hell and other oddities

2007-04-13 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Daniel James escribe: The point I like to make to them is that the true innovators in electronic music didn't follow what everyone else did, they created their own tools. Still, it does explain why there's so much derivative dance music around. I remember when Rebirth first came out, it was

Re: Jackd hell and other oddities

2007-04-12 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Eric Dantan Rzewnicki escribe: /etc/security/limits.conf needs to be set up as well. It's a simple step, but I guess it would be good if users didn't have to ask about it. A multimedia dedicated distro should ship /etc/security/limits.conf configured for realtime but not a generic distro.

Re: Jackd hell and other oddities

2007-04-12 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:33:32PM +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki escribe: /etc/security/limits.conf needs to be set up as well. It's a simple step, but I guess it would be good if users didn't have to ask about it. A multimedia dedicated distro should ship

Re: Jackd hell and other oddities

2007-04-12 Thread Herman Robak
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 18:03 -0400, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:33:32PM +0200, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki escribe: /etc/security/limits.conf needs to be set up as well. It's a simple step, but I guess it would be good if users didn't

Re: Jackd hell and other oddities

2007-04-11 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 02:37:53AM +0200, Free Ekanayaka wrote: If my interpretation is correct, my question is, Marco according to your experience is the installation of a multimedia/desktop kernel on a plain Debian (or Linux) distribution enough to fill the responsiveness gap?

Re: Jackd hell and other oddities

2007-04-11 Thread Free Ekanayaka
|--== Eric Dantan Rzewnicki writes: EDR On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 02:37:53AM +0200, Free Ekanayaka wrote: If my interpretation is correct, my question is, Marco according to your experience is the installation of a multimedia/desktop kernel on a plain Debian (or Linux) distribution enough

Re: Jackd hell and other oddities

2007-04-11 Thread Daniel James
Hi Ismael, Musix kernels are packaged by Tapani Raikkonen This may have changed recently, but last month they used our 2.6.17 package in their 0.99 release, see under 'New Software Packages' here: http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-announce/2007-March/000932.html The more

Re: Jackd hell and other oddities

2007-04-10 Thread Daniel James
Hi Marco, 1) A multimedia/desktop oriented kernel like the one in 64Studio or here: ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/deb/kernel/n I believe Musix now uses the 64 Studio kernel packages, so that's one less variable ;-) Ubuntu Studio is not going for a Molnar-style RT kernel, according

Re: Jackd hell and other oddities

2007-04-10 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Daniel James escribe: I believe Musix now uses the 64 Studio kernel packages, so that's one less variable ;-) Ubuntu Studio is not going for a Molnar-style RT kernel, according to an interview with Cory Kontros I read. That's not the case. Musix kernels are packaged by Tapani Raikkonen which

Re: Jackd hell and other oddities

2007-04-10 Thread Marco Ghirlanda
Hi Daniel, Hi Marco, 1) A multimedia/desktop oriented kernel like the one in 64Studio or here: ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/deb/kernel/n I believe Musix now uses the 64 Studio kernel packages, so that's one less variable ;-) Ubuntu Studio is not going for a Molnar-style RT kernel,

Re: Jackd hell and other oddities

2007-04-10 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Marco Ghirlanda escribe: 1) a default Linux installation is less snappy (responsive) than a fresh Windows install (in example using the same software like Audacity) As far as both default installations have no software and in Debian all software is just an apt-get away, I admit I don't