On 02/07/13 01:32, Stephan Barth wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 08:18:24AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 11:02:22AM +0200, Stephan Barth wrote:
Hi,
I have read several comments about the necessity of a real time kernel for music creation and production. However, others say low latency should be sufficient and our kernel is supposed to provide "lower latency", but this doesn't satisfy all applications. You can't have both, it's pretty much impossible. Not that I want it :) Seems many applications check if a real time kernel is running and show a warning. So I take it that this message is totally bogus nowadays, right?
So what would be the right kernel, settings or compile time options for making music on openSUSE? Why does the existing kernel not work for you? Do you have problems with it? What specific issues? No real issue. Just some doubts.
I often read that other distributions have a real time kernel for specialized music purposes. Therefore a lot of people ignore openSUSE because they are used to using real time kernels.
My main idea was to promote openSUSE more for music production and to write a SDB with general recommendations, etc.
There is a person on the Ubuntu mail list who has to use a real time kernel to control the cutting machinery in his workshop - the normal kernel, he has determined, has a latency of some milliseconds which is just too great and creates problems for the tungsten parts being machined. He therefore uses some kernel - which one I just don't recall but I think I found it in the wikipedia. His query about the kernel only took place a month or so ago so it shouldn't be too hard to find (and I know his name so he can be contacted about it if necessary). BC -- Using openSUSE 12.3, KDE 4.10.4 & kernel 3.9.8-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org