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

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

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

Re: [Cooker] Status of multimedia kernel?

2003-02-28 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

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

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

Re: [Cooker] Status of multimedia kernel?

2003-02-28 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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:

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

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

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 -- Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc.

Re: [Cooker] Status of multimedia kernel?

2003-02-28 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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,

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

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

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

Re: [Cooker] Status of multimedia kernel?

2003-02-28 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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:

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

[Cooker] Status of multimedia kernel?

2003-02-27 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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