At 08:07 PM 22/12/2003, Anahata wrote: >Hi > >While all the excited chat is about the shiny new kernel 2.6.0, >I have a 2.4.x question: > >I used 2.4.18 until recently, when I found that a disk I/O scheduling >problem (lack of responsiveness while writing backups to an optical >disk) was solved by upgrading to 2.4.20. Now I find that recording >audio on 2.4.20 is useless, with long droputs in the recorded sound. >I'm sure this is related to the way the system periodically dozes off for >a few seconds (not echoing console input) while it does some >disk intensive work. Rebooting 2.4.18 restored audio sanity, fortunately. You should upgrade to a newer kernel, as 2.4.20 was known to have some issues with ext3. Luke -- Luke Yelavich AudioSlack Founder and head package maintainer Audio software packaged for the Slackware Linux Distribution http://www.audioslack.com luke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
