Re: [ecasound] OSS vs ALSA for Andrew Morton's low-latency patches

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 05:06:33PM -0600, Kito wrote:
> As i mentioned above, I would suggest utilizing the arch profiles
> instead of adding ebuilds, not sure you'd need a seperate bootstrap.sh
> either, as most things can be handled through the profiles.

Sounds good.
We'd only need ebuilds for things that aren't already in portage,
and those should get contributed back to the core gentoo
repository anyway.

btw, gentoo is already pretty darn good for audio.
On x86 you already get a lowlatency kernel by default :-)
The kernel I've been running is gentoo-sources 2.4.28-r5.
It comes with the lowlatency and preemptible patches already
applied. I ran latencytest the other day and got excellent results,
except from the X stress test which I suspect is something to
do w my vid card config.

The only real complaint I've had with gentoo is that
it lags behind a bit in updating some of my favorite
audio apps. So, some I either install from source or
if there's a decent version masked by being "unstable", I just
do: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge foo

Some of the great goodies I've got:

media-sound/alsa-utils
media-plugins/swh-plugins
media-sound/audacity
media-libs/alsa-oss
media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit
media-sound/cdcd
media-libs/alsa-lib
app-cdr/cdrdao
media-sound/alsa-patch-bay
media-sound/ardour
app-cdr/cdrtools
media-libs/flac
media-sound/alsa-tools
media-plugins/alsa-jack
media-sound/mpg123
media-sound/qjackctl
media-sound/timidity-shompatches
media-sound/timidity-eawpatches
media-plugins/live
media-libs/libsamplerate
media-sound/seq24
media-libs/ladspa-cmt
media-sound/rosegarden
media-sound/timidity++
media-sound/sox
media-sound/qjackconnect
media-sound/madplay
media-libs/ladspa-sdk
media-sound/wavesurfer
media-sound/snd
dev-python/id3-py
media-sound/amsynth
media-sound/ecasound
dev-python/cddb-py
media-sound/alsa-firmware
media-libs/libhydrogen
media-sound/hydrogen
dev-python/pyvorbis
media-sound/alsaplayer
media-sound/easytag
media-sound/fluidsynth
media-video/realplayer
media-sound/alsa-driver
net-libs/meanwhile
media-libs/libogg
media-sound/jack-rack

-PW
 

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