[CentOS] multimedia kernel

Fri Jun 3 22:34:08 UTC 2005
Robin Mordasiewicz <robin at bullseye.tv>

On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 18:07 -0400, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:
>> On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>> On Fri, June 3, 2005 9:46 am, Phil Schaffner said:
>>>> On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 16:59 -0400, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:
>>>>> Is anyone using any type of multimedia patched kernels such as the one
>>>>> available at planet CCRMA.
>>>>
>>>> No, but am using FC3 kernels for hardware not supported by CentOS/EL 4.
>>>>
>>>>> Or does anyone know where I can dl multimedia patched kernel rpm for
>>>>> centos.
>>>>
>>>> No, but you can install apt (if not already present - I got the one from
>>>> Dag) and fetch the PlanetCCRMA FC 2 kernel (They don't seem to have FC 3
>>>> sources available) with the following...
>>>>
>>>> # yum install apt
>>>>
>>>> Create /etc/apt/sources.list.d/planetccrma.list:
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> # Name: Planet CCRMA Repository
>>>> # URL: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/
>>>>
>>>> # Planet CCRMA RPM Repository for Fedora Core 2
>>>> rpm http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt fedora/2/i386 core updates
>>>> rpm http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt fedora/2/i386 planetccrma
>>>> rpm http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt fedora/2/i386 planetcore
>>>> rpm-src http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt fedora/2/i386 core
>>>> updates
>>>> rpm-src http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt fedora/2/i386
>>>> planetccrma
>>>> rpm-src http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt fedora/2/i386 planetcore
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> # apt-get update
>>>> # apt-get source kernel
>>>> # cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
>>>> # rpmbuild -bb --target=i686 kernel.spec
>>>>
>>> I have a CentOS PLus kernel here that supports just about everything
>>> available in the 2.6.9 kernel:
>>>
>>> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/centosplus/
>>>
>> Does it contain the low latency patches.
>> I just built the planetCCRMA rpm for Centos3.4
>
> No patches ... but it does have all the multimedia items enabled as
> modules (all sound cards, Video4Linux, firewire, etc.)
>
hmmmm. Now I am thinking that I may try to use the stock 2.4 kernel rpm, 
but add the low latency patches. Too many things are changing. I am just 
not ready for the new kernel. :)