Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Tres Melton <tres@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] kernel.org vs. Gentoo-64 bit kernels (xruns)
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:12:10
Message-Id: 1127174984.6208.31.camel@thor.tres.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] kernel.org vs. Gentoo-64 bit kernels (xruns) by Mark Knecht
1 On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 11:16 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 > Is there a simple document around that would tell me something
4 > about the differences between the Gentoo 64-bit kernel and the
5 > standard 2.6.13.2 kernel from kernel.org? I'm a audio user, live audio
6 > recording, etc., and use Jack all the time. My new AMD64 machine is
7 > giving me many xrun problems that I have not seen on other Gentoo
8 > machines running Gentoo kernels. However all previous Gentoo machines
9 > were 32-bit and here I'm running the 64-bit kernel.
10
11 The homepage for that is: http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches
12 The patches are in /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/files/
13 And the ebuild is
14 here /usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/gentoo-sources-2.6.13.ebuild
15
16 > I'm considering building a kernel from kernel.org with the realtime
17 > patches applied which will probably fix things according to the
18 > Jack-audio developer folks. Unfortunately the patch set for 2.6.13
19 > does not apply cleanly against the Gentoo 64-bit kernel source, so I'm
20 > wondering what I'd be missing by using the kernel.org kernel instead.
21 >
22 > I also need to determine if the problems are possibly because of
23 > this new NForce4 chipset but that may take awhile.
24 >
25 > Thanks in advance for any info you might provide.
26 >
27 > Cheers,
28 > Mark
29 >
30 --
31 Tres Melton
32 IRC & Gentoo: RiverRat
33
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