Re: Trying to find a realtime patched kernel for Etch

On Sunday 30 September 2007, debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> realise there are no realtime patched kernels on the main debian repo's,
> and have been googling a bit, and found this.
>
> http://pkg-freebob.alioth.debian.org/lowlat.html
>
> It says to add the line below to /etc/apt/sources.list, but after running
> apt-get update, and opening synaptic, I can't find a source pkg for the
> 2.6.21 kernel.
>
> deb http://pkg-freebob.alioth.debian.org/debian unstable main
>
> The only 2.6.21 kernel there appears to be a realtime patched one, but is a
> k7 one. As my machine uses a 1.3GHz celeron, I don't suppose this is going
> to work, is it?
> linux-image-2.6.21-2-k7rt8
>
> Anyone any suggestions to get realtime working, if the above kernel is a no
> goer?
>
> The problem I have is that when starting jackd there are loads of xruns
> showing in it's messages, and when playing a music app, horgand for
> example, I am getting static like noise every so often when playing notes.
>
> Any help/suggestions appreciated.

Add this to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/deb/ ./

After apt-get update, you will see various 2.6.21 rt patched kernels, modules and sources (as well as most recent Ardour and Rosegarden to use them.

This repository is slow mollasis, however.

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