[PlanetCCRMA] Re: the Planet starts to land on Fedora 8

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 09:31 +0000, Alexander Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:08:42 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> 
> > Hi all... I first cut at the core components of Planet CCRMA for i386
> > (lightly tested) and x86_64 (not tested). For risk takers only :-)
> > 
> > [you can always keep making music using Fedora 7, right?]
> > 
> > Instructions in the website here:
> > http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/installplaneteight.html
> > 
> > [MUNCH]
> > 
> > More details in the release notes at the end of the install section.
> > I'll start with the applications build marathon tomorrow. Enjoy!
>
> I decided to be adventurous and tried out your new kernel on my F8 x86_64 
> system :p
> The kernel boots OK, but once the system's started, the GUI has slowed 
> down to an almost unusable rate. 

What do you see hogging the cpu if you start "top" in a terminal?
Are you using binary drivers for your video card? (Nvidia or ATI)

> When I tried to start JACK in realtime I 
> get this error message:
> 'cannot use real-time scheduling (FIFO at priority 10) [for thread 
> -754224400, from thread -754224400] (1: Operation not permitted)'

Hmmm, try installing the jack-audio-connection-kit from the Planet CCRMA
repository. That should take care of that (hopefully). 

> Interestingly, when I tried to copy and paste the error message, QJackCtl 
> produced this:
> 'QClipboard::setData: Cannot set X11 selection owner for PRIMARY'
> 'QClipboard::setData: Cannot set X11 selection owner for CLIPBOARD'
> 
> FWIW, the Fedora 7 rt kernel on the same architecture didn't have these 
> problems on my machine - in fact it performed really rather well! :)

:-(
-- Fernando