Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Stefan Kost
Dennis Schulmeister schrieb: Hi, On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 15:08 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 18:00 -0400, drew Roberts wrote: I don't think I saw any assertion in the thread as to the benefits of enabling RT by default for all desktop users? (I may

Re: [LAD] [RFC] LADSPA 1.2

2009-06-23 Thread Stefan Kost
Stefano D'Angelo schrieb: 2009/6/18 Stefano D'Angelo zanga.m...@gmail.com: 2009/6/18 Luis Garrido luisgarr...@users.sourceforge.net This has been debated already. Several times. For instance, please follow this (long) thread:

Re: [LAD] [RFC] LADSPA 1.2

2009-06-23 Thread Krzysztof Foltman
Stefan Kost wrote: I like the idea of the function. A nice feature of buzzmachine plugins is that plugins can have a describe_value() function. It returns a port value as a string. This is very flexible as plugins can include the unit values or other characters in the string (e.g. 90°, 4½ or

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:49:40AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: Just downgrade to FC5 or so. Or pick a different distro that is suited more to your needs. Actually F8 would be enough. ConsoleKit was a service there and I just disabled it without any ill effect. In F10 that choice has been

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 22.06.09 23:46, Jörn Nettingsmeier (netti...@folkwang-hochschule.de) wrote: What is so difficult to understand that rtkit is not intended to be a solution for hardcore rt users? rtkit is not for you! Let me repeat this: RTKIT IS NOT FOR YOU! this is

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 20:13 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: If you don't do RT development or doing RT development only for embedded cases, or if you are a [/*intended explicitives deleted*/] then it doesn't mean anything for you. However, if you are a desktop developer interested to get

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Patrick Shirkey
On 06/22/2009 04:20 PM, Chris Cannam wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Paul Davisp...@linuxaudiosystems.com wrote: Finally, as Chris said - many of us are writing apps that target multiple platforms Well, my comment (from the point of view of applications rather than library

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Bob Ham
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 00:49 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Tue, 23.06.09 00:36, Fons Adriaensen (f...@kokkinizita.net) wrote: Since you claim that all the *Kit stuff is optional, (as a side note, I didn't claim that) and you will still allow us to run our systems as we see fit,

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread alex stone
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Patrick Shirkeypshir...@boosthardware.com wrote: On 06/22/2009 04:20 PM, Chris Cannam wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Paul Davisp...@linuxaudiosystems.com wrote: Finally, as Chris said - many of us are writing apps that target multiple platforms

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Patrick Shirkey
On 06/23/2009 06:02 PM, alex stone wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Patrick Shirkeypshir...@boosthardware.com wrote: On 06/22/2009 04:20 PM, Chris Cannam wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Paul Davisp...@linuxaudiosystems.com wrote: Finally, as Chris said - many of us are

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Krzysztof Foltman
Patrick Shirkey wrote: As a point of interest and comparison that has very little to do with this debate, I just noticed that pulseaudio *is* being used in the Palm Pre http://opensource.palm.com/packages.html While Jack and Portaudio are not. Yes, also, Palm Pre doesn't ship with

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Chris Cannam
Well, I think this is fundamentally a good idea. I just thought someone ought to say that. I quite understand the frustration Paul expresses about the existing methods of doing this never having being fully exploited, but I can see why this has happened. It's still simple enough to put your

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Esben Stien
Dennis Schulmeister linux-audio-...@windows3.de writes: If you do a regular phone call from one mobile phone to another you easily get 1 second latency. The point is you don't notice it unless you're standing next to the other person. Well, 1 second is totally unacceptable on VoIP;). I don't

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:59:19AM +0100, Bob Ham wrote: It's great that all these new Kits are putting free software in the hands of average users. What isn't great is that they seem to be hastily developed and without concern for the wider free software community. There will be

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Paul Davis
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Gene Heskettgene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: PA is one of the biggest screwups ever, but red hat can't see it. This type of response is incredibly unhelpful. Lennart and others involved with PA have made their goals clear, their design assumptions clear, their

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Stéphane Letz
Le 23 juin 09 à 17:04, Paul Davis a écrit : On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Gene Heskettgene.hesk...@verizon.net wrote: PA is one of the biggest screwups ever, but red hat can't see it. This type of response is incredibly unhelpful. Lennart and others involved with PA have made their

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 23 June 2009, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote: +10,000 PA is one of the biggest screwups ever, but red hat can't see it. I don't think PA is a bad thing. On my laptop, PA works as follows: 1) takes care of general desktop stuff as needed 2) when JACKD connects directly to ALSA, PA ceases to

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 08:46 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: Patrick Shirkey wrote: What I see is that Lennart and the others who have worked on pulseaudio have done such a good job at making the platform accessible to the desktop community that it has now become the defacto standard for

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Dave Phillips
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 08:46 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: Patrick Shirkey wrote: ... we do have a problem now that needs to be sorted with integrating pa and jack in a way that is easy for everyone to work with. Do they need integrated at all ?

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread nescivi
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 12:26:01 Dave Phillips wrote: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 08:46 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: Patrick Shirkey wrote: ... we do have a problem now that needs to be sorted with integrating pa and jack in a way that is easy for everyone to work

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:44 +0200, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: Lennart Poettering wrote: On Mon, 22.06.09 23:46, Jörn Nettingsmeier (netti...@folkwang-hochschule.de) wrote: What is so difficult to understand that rtkit is not intended to be a solution for hardcore rt users? rtkit

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Paul Davis
2009/6/23 Fernando Lopez-Lezcano na...@ccrma.stanford.edu: [ ... good attempt at a summary elided ... ] fernando, unfortunately, you still missed the mechanisms described here: http://ww2.cs.fsu.edu/~rosentha/linux/2.6.26.5/docs/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt which are intended to

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Chris Cannam
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Ivica Ico Bukvici...@vt.edu wrote: PA is one of the biggest screwups ever, but red hat can't see it. I don't think PA is a bad thing. PulseAudio works well for me, and I can't believe I'm the only one. I have far more confidence in being able to get sound

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 13:12 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: 2009/6/23 Fernando Lopez-Lezcano na...@ccrma.stanford.edu: [ ... good attempt at a summary elided ... ] fernando, unfortunately, you still missed the mechanisms described here:

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Paul Davis
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcanona...@ccrma.stanford.edu wrote: This is what Lennart wrote in his original announcement: Why not use cgroups for this? Because it's simply a horrible API, and using this for media applications has non-obvious consequences on using

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Dennis Schulmeister
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 12:19 +0100, Krzysztof Foltman wrote: Patrick Shirkey wrote: As a point of interest and comparison that has very little to do with this debate, I just noticed that pulseaudio *is* being used in the Palm Pre http://opensource.palm.com/packages.html While Jack and

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 15:27 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcanona...@ccrma.stanford.edu wrote: This is what Lennart wrote in his original announcement: Why not use cgroups for this? Because it's simply a horrible API, and using this for

[LAD] Plugin group Boolean-oriented from lv2 rdf spec?

2009-06-23 Thread Ulrich Lorenz Schlüter
Hello everybody, is the lv2 plugin group Boolean-oriented from lv2 rdf spec? I find it as ingen menu item but not in the lv2 rdf spec. Does someone maybe know how I get into there. Regards and thank you Uli ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Paul Davis
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcanona...@ccrma.stanford.edu wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 15:27 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcanona...@ccrma.stanford.edu wrote: This is what Lennart wrote in his original announcement: Why

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Chris Cannam
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Fons Adriaensenf...@kokkinizita.net wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:59:19AM +0100, Bob Ham wrote: It's great that all these new Kits There certainly do seem to be a lot of new Kits on the block. are putting free software in the hands of average users.  

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 09:56:08PM +0100, Chris Cannam wrote: Auditor: OK, show me a list of all processes on this system. System engineer: ps -ef ps -ef? Well, there's your problem right there. Shoulda been using BSD... First projects we did were actually on Solaris and Sun boxen..

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
[something appears to be wrong on the list, I'm not seeing your posts there, I'm just getting the emails directly addressed to me] On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 16:27 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcanona...@ccrma.stanford.edu wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-23 at

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Paul Davis
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcanona...@ccrma.stanford.edu wrote: see here for an interesting entry:  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442959 that is hilarious :) and  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10361  (referenced inside the previous ticket)

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 18:44 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcanona...@ccrma.stanford.edu wrote: see here for an interesting entry: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442959 that is hilarious :) and

[LAD] palm pre [was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!]

2009-06-23 Thread Patrick Shirkey
On 06/24/2009 02:31 AM, Dennis Schulmeister wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 12:19 +0100, Krzysztof Foltman wrote: Patrick Shirkey wrote: As a point of interest and comparison that has very little to do with this debate, I just noticed that pulseaudio *is* being used in the Palm Pre

Re: [LAD] palm pre [was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!]

2009-06-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Patrick Shirkey wrote: On 06/24/2009 02:31 AM, Dennis Schulmeister wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 12:19 +0100, Krzysztof Foltman wrote: Patrick Shirkey wrote: As a point of interest and comparison that has very little to do with this debate, I just noticed that pulseaudio *is* being

Re: [LAD] palm pre [was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!]

2009-06-23 Thread Patrick Shirkey
On 06/24/2009 09:26 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Patrick Shirkey wrote: On 06/24/2009 02:31 AM, Dennis Schulmeister wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 12:19 +0100, Krzysztof Foltman wrote: Patrick Shirkey wrote: As a point of interest and comparison that has very little to do with this debate, I

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 18:44 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcanona...@ccrma.stanford.edu wrote: see here for an interesting entry: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442959 that is hilarious :) Hmmm, well, not really. It means he

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 15:14 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Sun, 21.06.09 20:58, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano (na...@ccrma.stanford.edu) wrote: The question is relevant, I think, as the kernels that I use (Planet CCRMA) are the rt patched kernels, currently limited to 2.6.29.5 (I

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Patrick Shirkey
On 06/24/2009 10:24 AM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 18:44 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcanona...@ccrma.stanford.edu wrote: see here for an interesting entry: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442959

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 10:33 +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote: On 06/24/2009 10:24 AM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 18:44 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcanona...@ccrma.stanford.edu wrote: see here for

Re: [LAD] palm pre [was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!]

2009-06-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Patrick Shirkey wrote: On 06/24/2009 09:26 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Patrick Shirkey wrote: On 06/24/2009 02:31 AM, Dennis Schulmeister wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 12:19 +0100, Krzysztof Foltman wrote: Patrick Shirkey wrote: As a point of interest and comparison that has very little to do

Re: [LAD] palm pre [was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!]

2009-06-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
You should go and ask people in open forums, instead of asking developers or even users in closed mailing lists. Maybe forums for audio and multimedia users (and users are consumers and producers), not especially for Linux users and don't ask them if they want JACK and/ or ALSA, ask them

Re: [LAD] [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on the desktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!

2009-06-23 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 20:25 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 15:14 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Sun, 21.06.09 20:58, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano (na...@ccrma.stanford.edu) wrote: The question is relevant, I think, as the kernels that I use (Planet