Kubuntu 10.10 and real-time kernel

[Alexandros Bitoulas]

Στις Δευ 28 Φεβ 2011 23:18:14 Victor henri γράψατε:
> > From: albitoulas at yahoo.gr
> > To: ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
> > Subject: Re: Kubuntu 10.10 and real-time kernel
> > Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:56:10 +0200
> > CC: ubuntu-studio-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > 
> > Στις Δευ 28 Φεβ 2011 11:42:19 Ralf Mardorf γράψατε:
> > > On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 23:24 +0200, Alexandros Bitoulas wrote:
> > > > Hello Ralf! Firstly thank you for all your information and
> > > > suggestions for all your mails!
> > > > 
> > > > >Στις Κυρ 27 Φεβ 2011 14:54:03 Ralf γράψατε:
> > > > > On my machine (ASUS M2A-VM HDMI, AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core Processor
> > > > > 
> > > > > BE-2350, 2GB RAM, 2 PCI Terratec EWX 24/96 Envy24 cards and a
> > > > > NVIDIA
> > > > > 
> > > > > GeForce 7200 GS graphics) Edubuntu 10.10 x86 plus Ubuntu Studio
> > > > > from
> > > > 
> > > > the
> > > > 
> > > > > repositories seems to be stable since I
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > - build a kernel-rt by the attached script rt4us_[snip]
> > > > > 
> > > > > (Note: for running the kernel-rt the package rtirq-init needs to be
> > > > > 
> > > > > installed and the user has to be member of the group
> > > > > 
> > > > > 'audio', /etc/security/limits.d is set up
> > > > > 
> > > > > automatically by the packages)
> > > > > 
> > > > > If you're booted to the current kernel 2.6.35-25-generic, you only
> > > > > 
> > > > > need to push enter all the times.
> > > > 
> > > > Does this script build the same kernel with the one if I just run
> > > > sudo apt-get install linux-rt linux-headers-rt ?
> > > > 
> > > > I mean, is this script essential for my real-time performance? Is
> > > > this a better kernel for audio production?
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks once again!
> > > > 
> > > > Alex
> > > 
> > > It's the latest kernel-rt, a kernel-rt from the repositories should be
> > > (nearly) the same.
> > 
> > Dear friends,
> > 
> > To Ralf: I had some problems with the script and didn't manage to build
> > the kernel (missing packages like make-kpkg and others which I couldn't
> > even sudo apt-get install them). Furthermore, If I got the right
> > picture, this script has a default configure scheme set up which
> > probably is not suitable for my hardware (am I right?) and due to my
> > lack of knowledge and experience I abandoned the efforts in order to not
> > mis-configure something. For the record, in 10.10 real-time and
> > low-latency kernels are not included at the official repositories.
> > 
> > After researching on the net I decided to install the low-latency or the
> > real- time kernel, after adding Alessio Igor Bogani's ppa to my system
> > (Kubuntu 10.10, x64) with sudo add-apt-repository ppa:abogani/ppa.
> > 
> > However when I sudo apt-get install linux-lowlatency or linux-realtime no
> > package can be found! I realized that this does not work for the 10.10
> > distro as it is mentioned that it works only for Lucid or Natty!
> > 
> > What can I do to install the latest low-latency or real-time of Alesio
> > Bogani?
> > 
> > I found also this:
> > http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10072326&postcount=10
> > but it seems to download an older version of the low-latency and
> > real-time kernels?
> 
> I installed the repository for Lucid in my Maverick; i could install the
> Real-time kernel without problem :-)
> 

Hello Victor,

I also changed the ppa from maverick to lucid and I can only sudo apt-get 
install only the linux-realtime kernel, not the lowlatency one (terminal 
returns that it can't find the packet) which I would prefer to try.

Thanks,
Alex

> Victor
> 
> > Please, I need your advice!
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Alex