[TriLUG] Wireless Broken WAS Re: Getting sound to work in WINE

Daniel T. Chen crimsun at fungus.sh.nu
Wed Nov 7 22:31:59 EST 2007


On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 22:14 -0500, Douglas A. Whitfield wrote:
> I get the error E: Couldn't find package
> linux-backports-modules-2.6.22-9-generic

-9 is an obsolete epoch (from several months ago).  You meant
linux-backports-modules-$(uname -r).

> My current kernel is  2.6.22-14-rt.  What are the benefits and
> drawbacks of having the rt kernel?

Ingo's realtime flavour is much better suited for audio production.
Briefly, it offers much lower latency.  One tradeoff is significantly
reduced battery life (it's not tickless).

> also, I didn't understnad the part about
> linux-backports-modules-$(uname -r).  am I supposed to apt-get that or
> what?

$(uname -r) is a shell expansion that one would type literally at the
shell prompt.  I used it precisely so you can avoid the -9 (epoch)
issues above; it resolves to your current running kernel flavour.  So
yes, sudo aptitude install linux-backports-modules-$(uname -r)

-Dan
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