Re: [Cooker] Status of multimedia kernel?

2003-03-01 Thread Danny Tholen
On Friday 28 February 2003 19:26, Buchan Milne wrote:


 How about just jackstart in contrib, requiring jackit and (assuming we
 can get the multimedia kernel in) kernel-multimedia?
yes, split off a small package into contrib, with the script.
Does the script need to be setuid root? Why not become root to use it? The 
jackd itself can still run as the current user?


btw:
Wrote: /home/dtholen/rpm/SRPMS/kernel-multimedia-2.4.21.0.11mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm
Wrote: 
/home/dtholen/rpm/RPMS/i586/kernel-multimedia-preemptsmp-2.4.21.0.11mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm
Wrote: 
/home/dtholen/rpm/RPMS/i586/kernel-multimedia-preempt-2.4.21.0.11mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm
Wrote: 
/home/dtholen/rpm/RPMS/i586/kernel-multimedia-source-2.4.21-0.11mdk.i586.rpm

Austin: can you test the smp version?

d.





Re: [Cooker] Status of multimedia kernel?

2003-03-01 Thread Danny Tholen
On Friday 28 February 2003 19:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I have read something about a kernel patch that makes it possible to use
 jackit with capabilities without running it as root.
eh thac, you might have missed we already did this. The only problem was 
getting the stuff actually uploaded to contrib...

d.





Re: [Cooker] Status of multimedia kernel?

2003-02-28 Thread Danny Tholen
On Thursday 27 February 2003 17:34, Buchan Milne wrote:

 I was wanting to answer that most of the software is already in Mandrake
 contribs in preparation for 9.1, but it seems we do not have the low
 latency/multimedia kernel in contrib yet.
well, I do hardly have the time to put up with contrib sillyness:

My permissions on my homedir on klama keep changing to 99,
I do not get error messages when a package is not acccepted,
according to chmouel I uploaded them to main, while I'm 100% sure that I 
uploaded them to contrib.
I have to keep mailing lenny to add me to maintainers list so that I at least 
know when something gets refused. And still I am not on that list.

Actually, IMO this sucks. It is far easier to put it in clubcontribs. Amazing  
everybody puts up with this.

danny







Re: [Cooker] Status of multimedia kernel?

2003-02-28 Thread Buchan Milne
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Danny Tholen wrote:
 On Thursday 27 February 2003 17:34, Buchan Milne wrote:

I was wanting to answer that most of the software is already in Mandrake
contribs in preparation for 9.1, but it seems we do not have the low
latency/multimedia kernel in contrib yet.

 well, I do hardly have the time to put up with contrib sillyness:

 My permissions on my homedir on klama keep changing to 99,

Lenny, please look into this.

 I do not get error messages when a package is not acccepted,
 according to chmouel I uploaded them to main, while I'm 100% sure that I
 uploaded them to contrib.
 I have to keep mailing lenny to add me to maintainers list so that I
at least
 know when something gets refused. And still I am not on that list.

If necessary (I was not sure if you were subscribed yet) I will forward
you errors on your packages in mainters until you are subscribed.


 Actually, IMO this sucks. It is far easier to put it in clubcontribs.
Amazing
 everybody puts up with this.

I don't know how many people have problems like this. My only issue is I
was only subscribed to maintainers recently, and did not know about it
before.

Chmouel/Warly, can someone give a definitive answer as to whether these
pakages will be accepted into contrib, and if so, what needs to be done
to have them accepted. It would be really good to see this kernel in
contrib.

Regards,
Buchan

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Re: [Cooker] Status of multimedia kernel?

2003-02-28 Thread Lenny Cartier
Hello,

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:57:08PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:

 I was wanting to answer that most of the software is already in Mandrake
 contribs in preparation for 9.1, but it seems we do not have the low
 latency/multimedia kernel in contrib yet.
 
  well, I do hardly have the time to put up with contrib sillyness:
 
  My permissions on my homedir on klama keep changing to 99,
 
 Lenny, please look into this.

Fixed. But I need to see what's really happening on it.

lenny




Re: [Cooker] Status of multimedia kernel?

2003-02-28 Thread Austin Acton
Well, while talking to the Linux Audio User's Group, my idea was that
everything they want in a specialized audio distro, we could easily have
with a little work.  But it's not turning out to be so easy.

Mainly this includes:
1. low-latency, preemptable, capabilities kernel
2. jackd with capabilities
3. ardour
4. lots of cool sound toys

So far we've had problems with 1, 2, and 3.  The kernel was graciously
made by Danny, and I can easily make an SMP version, but we can't seem
to get it into contribs, and we have no commitment that it will be the
same version as that in main at release time.  It would help if we had a
little cooperation from MDK team on this.

As for jackd with capabilities, I had to make it a compile-time option. 
This is fine for experienced users, but a pain otherwise.  I wish there
was an easier way.

Also, I've almost finished ardour, only to learn that 'the author'
doesn't want binary copies distributed, because he's afraid users will
pester him and/or us about bugs/limitations which he already know
about.  He does however allow gentoo to have an emerge script from CVS. 
So either we disrespect his wishes (and they are only wishes; there's no
clause in the GPL saying source-code only distribution), or I will adapt
my SRPM to do a CVS checkout.  Probably go with latter option.  No want
to step on any toes if possible.

I expected to tell people, Hey we've got an easy to use, fully capable
distro that will do all the cool audio stuff you want out-of-the-box. 
Just: urpmi jack ardour kernel-multimedia.

Currently, I will have to make a long page of detailed instructions
like:
1. go to a mirror and download jack and ardour SRPMS
2. install devel packages (cvs, gcc, etc)
3. rebuild jack --with-realtime (a few mintues)
4. rebuild ardour (long download, VERY long build)
5. go to club and get a membership if you don't have one
6. download kernel-multimedia
7. install your new kernel, jack, and ardour rpms
8. reboot and run jackstart

Quite a task for a Windows-user, and not as cool as just running urpmi. 
The one cool thing is it pushes people to join the club, but I
anticipate some resistance to paying just to download the linux kernel
(of all things).

Any ideas/suggestions?
Austin

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Re: [Cooker] Status of multimedia kernel?

2003-02-28 Thread Buchan Milne
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Austin Acton wrote:
 Well, while talking to the Linux Audio User's Group, my idea was that
 everything they want in a specialized audio distro, we could easily have
 with a little work.  But it's not turning out to be so easy.

 Mainly this includes:
 1. low-latency, preemptable, capabilities kernel
 2. jackd with capabilities
 3. ardour
 4. lots of cool sound toys

 So far we've had problems with 1, 2, and 3.  The kernel was graciously
 made by Danny, and I can easily make an SMP version, but we can't seem
 to get it into contribs, and we have no commitment that it will be the
 same version as that in main at release time.  It would help if we had a
 little cooperation from MDK team on this.

Chmouel/Juan, are you guys able to give an answer on this? I am sure if
you Danny can be told This will be the final kernel for 9.1 a few days
in advance, he should be able to get a the multimedia kernel working. I
am also sure that if he has problems uploading it, or has to
repatch/rebuild often he will not be keen ...


 As for jackd with capabilities, I had to make it a compile-time option.

Why? Does it need the mutli-media kernel, or is there some other issue?

How about building it parallel, so that a build of the srpm builds it
once without capabilities, once with, and have the two packages obsolete
each other etc so that you can swap between them with:

# urpmi jackit
or
# urpmi jackit-capabilities

I would guess then that jackit-capabilities would require the multimedia
kernel?

 This is fine for experienced users, but a pain otherwise.  I wish there
 was an easier way.

 Also, I've almost finished ardour, only to learn that 'the author'
 doesn't want binary copies distributed, because he's afraid users will
 pester him and/or us about bugs/limitations which he already know
 about.

If he does not want users to use his software, he should not make it
available. Users should be aware that the first place they file bugs is
with their distro.

  He does however allow gentoo to have an emerge script from CVS.
 So either we disrespect his wishes (and they are only wishes; there's no
 clause in the GPL saying source-code only distribution), or I will adapt
 my SRPM to do a CVS checkout.  Probably go with latter option.  No want
 to step on any toes if possible.

But that is ridiculous. What if you *happen* to get a totally wasted
copy from cvs? It is better to have a binary package that is known to at
least run.


 I expected to tell people, Hey we've got an easy to use, fully capable
 distro that will do all the cool audio stuff you want out-of-the-box.
 Just: urpmi jack ardour kernel-multimedia.

 Currently, I will have to make a long page of detailed instructions
 like:
 1. go to a mirror and download jack and ardour SRPMS
 2. install devel packages (cvs, gcc, etc)
 3. rebuild jack --with-realtime (a few mintues)
 4. rebuild ardour (long download, VERY long build)
 5. go to club and get a membership if you don't have one
 6. download kernel-multimedia
 7. install your new kernel, jack, and ardour rpms
 8. reboot and run jackstart

 Quite a task for a Windows-user, and not as cool as just running urpmi.
 The one cool thing is it pushes people to join the club, but I
 anticipate some resistance to paying just to download the linux kernel
 (of all things).

 Any ideas/suggestions?

1)See if we can campaing Mandrakesoft to assist getting Danny's kernel
into contrib
2)build 2 versions of jackit in the srpm
3)Ignore the ardour author's wishes, but offer to handle bug reports
from Mandrake users (by directing them to bugzilla), and provide binaries.

Danny, where can I get your latest SRPM? Can I give it a try uploading
to contrib on klama?

Buchan

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Re: [Cooker] Status of multimedia kernel?

2003-02-28 Thread Austin Acton
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 10:50, Buchan Milne wrote:
  As for jackd with capabilities, I had to make it a compile-time option.
 
 Why? Does it need the mutli-media kernel, or is there some other issue?

It's the same, except in the capabilities version, there is an extra
script, jackstart, which has to be suid root.  I think it's pretty
harmless without the capabilities kernel, but I'm not an expert.  WITH
the capabilities kernel, it is decidedly unsafe.

 How about building it parallel, so that a build of the srpm builds it
 once without capabilities, once with, and have the two packages obsolete
 each other etc so that you can swap between them with:
 
 # urpmi jackit
 or
 # urpmi jackit-capabilities

That would be great if jack was in contribs.  But since it's in main, I
don't think they want any suid scripts at all.  Not sure about that
though.

  Also, I've almost finished ardour, only to learn that 'the author'
  doesn't want binary copies distributed, because he's afraid users will
  pester him and/or us about bugs/limitations which he already know
  about.
 
 If he does not want users to use his software, he should not make it
 available. Users should be aware that the first place they file bugs is
 with their distro.

Many people are 'respecting' his unpublished wishes (Planet CCRMA,
debian), and others aren't (connetiva has an rpm), and some get around
it (gentoo).

 But that is ridiculous. What if you *happen* to get a totally wasted
 copy from cvs? It is better to have a binary package that is known to at
 least run.

You're preaching to the choir here Buchan.  :-)

 1)See if we can campaing Mandrakesoft to assist getting Danny's kernel
 into contrib
 2)build 2 versions of jackit in the srpm
 3)Ignore the ardour author's wishes, but offer to handle bug reports
 from Mandrake users (by directing them to bugzilla), and provide binaries.

This I really like.  The only real problem is having a suid script in
main.  Maybe we can have jackit in main and jackit-capabilities in
contribs?  I know it's messy though.

Thanks for your help/support Buchan.

Austin
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Re: [Cooker] Status of multimedia kernel?

2003-02-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have been building ardour rpms for Mandrake quite a while now and
i have not seen one question on ardour devellop or user mailinglists
about bugs in my the rpms.
Actually i decided to start building Mandrake 9.0 ardour rpms when i saw 
that over 50% of the messages in ardour devel was about how to build ardour.
Since i started to announce new rpm version this kind of entries has 
dropped down to something like 25%.
I really think that you should build ardour rpms for it but you must 
update them frequently.
And of make it clear that it is a program thats in canstant development.

I have had only positive response on the rpms i have published on my site.
The only thing thats missing is the low-latency kernel.
/thac





Re: [Cooker] Status of multimedia kernel?

2003-02-28 Thread Austin Acton
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 11:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 The only thing thats missing is the low-latency kernel.

And jackd with capabilities.
Unless you are running ardour as root... not a good idea on an unstable
program.
Austin

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Re: [Cooker] Status of multimedia kernel?

2003-02-28 Thread Buchan Milne
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Austin Acton wrote:
 On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 10:50, Buchan Milne wrote:

 It's the same, except in the capabilities version, there is an extra
 script, jackstart, which has to be suid root.  I think it's pretty
 harmless without the capabilities kernel, but I'm not an expert.  WITH
 the capabilities kernel, it is decidedly unsafe.


How about just jackstart in contrib, requiring jackit and (assuming we
can get the multimedia kernel in) kernel-multimedia?


How about building it parallel, so that a build of the srpm builds it
once without capabilities, once with, and have the two packages obsolete
each other etc so that you can swap between them with:

# urpmi jackit
or
# urpmi jackit-capabilities


 That would be great if jack was in contribs.  But since it's in main, I
 don't think they want any suid scripts at all.  Not sure about that
 though.


D'Oh, forgot abot that ...

1)See if we can campaing Mandrakesoft to assist getting Danny's kernel
into contrib
2)build 2 versions of jackit in the srpm
3)Ignore the ardour author's wishes, but offer to handle bug reports
from Mandrake users (by directing them to bugzilla), and provide binaries.


 This I really like.

BTW, in 9.0 Sylvestre and I took a risk putting samba-2.2.6rc2 in (samba
team reckoned they would have 2.2.6 final out at least a week before
final freeze of 9.0), but it was not too much of an issue (there was
really only one visible bug in smbclient, and we had to do updates to
2.2.7 anyway ... plus more shortly I hope). One of the things that we
did to manage this was ensuring that *we* answered such bug reports on
the samba mailing list quickly, so that the authors were not tied up
answering questions stemming from us shipping 2.2.6pre2.

If you (or other Mandrake/cooker users) are willing to stick on
whichever list is applicable and field Mandrake questions, the ardour
author should be pleased to have more people using his software, as he
should get a wider audience for patches, and not have to pay for it by
answering questions from users using Mandrake packages. It would be a
win/win situation instead of an everyone loses situation IMHO.

(please note I am not volunteering to help with this ... I have mailing
list overload already!).

 The only real problem is having a suid script in
 main.  Maybe we can have jackit in main and jackit-capabilities in
 contribs?  I know it's messy though.

Just put it in a seperate package in contrib. Or would this not solve it?

Buchan

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Re: [Cooker] Status of multimedia kernel?

2003-02-28 Thread Austin Acton
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 13:26, Buchan Milne wrote:
 How about just jackstart in contrib, requiring jackit and (assuming we
 can get the multimedia kernel in) kernel-multimedia?

It's a logical idea, but it wouldn't work, as jackd itself requires
compile-time configuration to know jackstart suid root exists.

But capabilities jack in contribs is an option.

 If you (or other Mandrake/cooker users) are willing to stick on
 whichever list is applicable and field Mandrake questions, the ardour
 author should be pleased to have more people using his software, as he
 should get a wider audience for patches, and not have to pay for it by
 answering questions from users using Mandrake packages. It would be a
 win/win situation instead of an everyone loses situation IMHO.

I'm already on linux audio users list.  I answer a lot of Mandrake help
questions.  Was arguing all morning with a guy who says he can't build
anything with Mandrake 8.2.

Ardour-devel and ardour-users are not too busy, so I guess I can watch
them.

Austin
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Re: [Cooker] Status of multimedia kernel?

2003-02-28 Thread Danny Tholen
On Friday 28 February 2003 16:50, Buchan Milne wrote:
 Austin Acton wrote:

 Chmouel/Juan, are you guys able to give an answer on this? I am sure if
 you Danny can be told This will be the final kernel for 9.1 a few days
 in advance, he should be able to get a the multimedia kernel working. I
 am also sure that if he has problems uploading it, or has to
 repatch/rebuild often he will not be keen .
I do not necessarily need to know in advance. At the release moment I can 
build a preempt version, only someone has to move it to 9.1 contrib at that 
moment. Since also in main only bugfixes are allowed this kernel could also 
be considered a bugfix (since it is exactly the same as in main, only with 
the lowlat/preempt patches)

  As for jackd with capabilities, I had to make it a compile-time option.

 Why? Does it need the mutli-media kernel, or is there some other issue?
yes why?

  Also, I've almost finished ardour, only to learn that 'the author'
  doesn't want binary copies distributed, because he's afraid users will
  pester him and/or us about bugs/limitations which he already know
  about.
If it is GPL, the author cannot ask this from you. He should either make it 
non-GPL or allow it. 
 Danny, where can I get your latest SRPM? Can I give it a try uploading
 to contrib on klama?

on klama, actually, I am going to update it to latest cooker kernel _now_ (so 
give me a few hours).


d.




Re: [Cooker] Status of multimedia kernel?

2003-02-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I have been building ardour rpms for Mandrake quite a while now and
i have not seen one question on ardour devellop or user mailinglists
about bugs in my the rpms.
Actually i decided to start building Mandrake 9.0 ardour rpms when i 
saw that over 50% of the messages in ardour devel was about how to 
build ardour.
Since i started to announce new rpm version this kind of entries has 
dropped down to something like 25%.
I really think that you should build ardour rpms for it but you must 
update them frequently.
And of make it clear that it is a program thats in canstant development.

I have had only positive response on the rpms i have published on my 
site.
The only thing thats missing is the low-latency kernel.

/thac


I have read something about a kernel patch that makes it possible to use 
jackit with capabilities without running it as root.

   Snip from this page http://jackit.sourceforge.net/docs/faq.php

   Real-time scheduling

Jack requires real-time scheduling (|SCHED_FIFO|) for reliable, 
dropout-free operation, which the vanilla Linux kernel does not 
adequately support. Andrew Morton's low-latency patches are currently 
the most functional way to add soft-RT scheduling to Linux; you may find 
them here http://www.zip.com.au/%7Eakpm/linux/schedlat.html#downloads. 
However, special privileges are required to enable low-latency 
operation, which can be acquired in two ways.

The first option is to run jackd as root in real-time mode, invoking it 
as |jackd --realtime ...|. This has the disadvantage of requiring that 
all of the apps that use jack run as root, but it gets the job done. 
Real-time scheduling is inherently 'dangerous'; a badly or maliciously 
coded app can hang the system. Requiring that apps be run as root at 
least requires the user to already have full control over the system 
anyway, so this is not a real security risk. This is the way most people 
do things.

A newer way to do things is to use a setuid root app that runs the jackd 
binary as a non-root user and transfers to it the capabilities needed 
for real-time scheduling. This requires processes to be able to grant 
their privileges to other processes using POSIX 1.e capabilities. A more 
in-depth discussion of this issue may be found at Tommi Ilmonen's 
|givertcap| page http://www.tml.hut.fi/%7Etilmonen/givertcap/. To use 
this feature at present (May 2002), a brief kernel patch is required:

   Go to |/usr/src/linux/include/linux| (or wherever you have your
   kernel sources) and in the file |capability.h| change the line
   #define CAP_INIT_EFF_SETto_cap_t(~0~CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_SETPCAP))
 

   to

   #define CAP_INIT_EFF_SETto_cap_t( ~0 )
 

   and the line

   #define CAP_INIT_INH_SETto_cap_t(0)
 

   to

   #define CAP_INIT_INH_SETto_cap_t( ~0 )
 

   You must then recompile your kernel. 

By the way did you implement low-latency by using
/Control low latency with sysctl/.  If you enable this, you can turn the 
low-latency capability on and off with /proc/sys/kernel/lowlatency.  The 
default value is zero - low-latency disabled.

from this page http://www.zip.com.au/%7Eakpm/linux/schedlat.html

/thac




Re: [Cooker] Status of multimedia kernel?

2003-02-28 Thread Buchan Milne
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Danny Tholen wrote:
 On Friday 28 February 2003 19:26, Buchan Milne wrote:

 btw:
 Wrote:
/home/dtholen/rpm/SRPMS/kernel-multimedia-2.4.21.0.11mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm
 Wrote:

/home/dtholen/rpm/RPMS/i586/kernel-multimedia-preemptsmp-2.4.21.0.11mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm
 Wrote:

/home/dtholen/rpm/RPMS/i586/kernel-multimedia-preempt-2.4.21.0.11mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm
 Wrote:

/home/dtholen/rpm/RPMS/i586/kernel-multimedia-source-2.4.21-0.11mdk.i586.rpm


And here I am watching the changelog list ... and nothing happens ...
have you tried uploading?


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Re: [Cooker] Status of multimedia kernel?

2003-02-28 Thread Danny Tholen
On Friday 28 February 2003 19:26, Buchan Milne wrote:


 How about just jackstart in contrib, requiring jackit and (assuming we
 can get the multimedia kernel in) kernel-multimedia?
yes, split off a small package into contrib, with the script.
Does the script need to be setuid root? Why not become root to use it? The 
jackd itself can still run as the current user?


btw:
Wrote: /home/dtholen/rpm/SRPMS/kernel-multimedia-2.4.21.0.11mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm
Wrote: 
/home/dtholen/rpm/RPMS/i586/kernel-multimedia-preemptsmp-2.4.21.0.11mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm
Wrote: 
/home/dtholen/rpm/RPMS/i586/kernel-multimedia-preempt-2.4.21.0.11mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm
Wrote: 
/home/dtholen/rpm/RPMS/i586/kernel-multimedia-source-2.4.21-0.11mdk.i586.rpm

Austin: can you test the smp version?

d.




[Cooker] Status of multimedia kernel?

2003-02-27 Thread Buchan Milne
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I was just reading LWN, where they were discussing how slow progress has
been with demudi and agnula (really bad names ...).

http://lwn.net/Articles/23857/

I was wanting to answer that most of the software is already in Mandrake
contribs in preparation for 9.1, but it seems we do not have the low
latency/multimedia kernel in contrib yet.

Chmouel seemed to imply that it should be able to go in as long as the
names do not conflict. Danny uploaded a new one, which was rejected (IIRC).

Is it going to be possible to get it in for 9.1 contrib?

Regards,
Buchan

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