[PlanetCCRMA] Easy Question - Keyboard / Mouse

[Bob Wilkinson]

You didn't have to say that Fernando - I really don't want to set up this system twice this quickly, and until you said that you were working on the 64-bit system I was quite content sticking with FC5 dual processor for a while.  Now I'm itchy to see these 64 bit processors running at their full capabilities.



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From: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
> On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 14:50 -0500, John Dey wrote:
> > Hi Fernando,
> > 
> > I assume the Athlon x2 is 64 bit.  If so, do you run with the 32 bit 
> > operating system with real-time or are you using a stock F5 64 bit OS 
> > without real-time scheduling.  If so, how has the performance been?
> 
> I'm just running 32 bit FC4 at the moment...
> 
> Working on FC6, and for now including also 64 bit in the mix :-O
> 
> I'm testing the raw rt kernels that Ingo posted and they seem to boot
> fine in both FC6 64 bit dual processor and FC6 32 bit single processor.
> I had less luck with my previous attempt using 2.6.18-rt7 on top of an
> already patched FC6 kernel (some kernel bug popping up - impossible to
> know why, I have not yet posted them to LKML). 
> 
> -- Fernando
> 
> 
> > > On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 17:46 +0000, Bob Wilkinson wrote:
> > >> Well, I'm finally setting up a dual core Athlon X2 box, and one
> > >> rather seemingly simple question showed up - would it make more
> > >> sense to run with a PS2 keyboard and mouse, or USB?  Does the USB
> > >> driver take enough processor that it makes a difference?  Is the
> > >> USB option actually more processor efficient than PS2?
> > >
> > > I have no idea about the relative merits, but I'm using usb
> > > keyboards/mice here at ccrma (in Athlon x2 boxes) with no problems...
> > > The only gotcha with the motherboards I selected was that you needed to
> > > enable usb keyboard/mice support in the BIOS, otherwise grub would not
> > > see them.
> > >
> > > -- Fernando
> > >
> > >> I guess I always just assumed that it was better to stay with the
> > >> "old" technology PS2 keyboards and mice, but I don't have enough
> > >> hardware and interrupt background to know that positively.
> > >>
> > >> Either a "Big Bird" simple answer or a college course "101" level
> > >> explanation would be fine.  Come to think of it, the college level
> > >> "101" answer would actually be kinda nice to know.
> > >
> > >
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