Ok, ok =) Thanks everybody for the answers, now I'm a little less confused maybe. I just wanted to make it clear that 1) *I* did echo "1" >/proc/sys/kernel/lowlatency, thus "virtually" enabling lowlatency, infact I can't say wether it is really enbled or not just because I've set that to 1 instead of 0. 2) Those xruns I get are so many! And I get them even when I'm absolutely idle, ie. not recording and the such. 3) Anybody knows where do I get that capabilities patch? I'd prefer to compile the kernel myself... * * * Question to Fernando: thanks for the Planet CCRMA project, I've tried out some rpm's in my tests partition with mandrake. But what's the difference between CCRMA and the soon-to-be-released (maybe) RehMuDi? Aren't them more or less the same thing? As far as I know DeMuDi (debian version) and RehMuDi (redhat version) have lowlatency kernels together with the same large deal of multimedia software. For you debian fans out there, I simply added this line: deb http://http.demudi.org woody demudi to my sources.list and now I have demudi packages in my apt database :) Thanks everybody for existing references: http://www.agnula.org http://www.demudi.org -- Prendi GRATIS l'email universale che... risparmia: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Erboristeria.com: Fanghi Guam con sconti irresistibili Clicca qui: http://adv2.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=800&d=4-2