> Also, if you are using KDE, > Mandrake has this stupid idea of renicing X to -10, which makes the > mm kernel very stop-and-go. Adjust the -n level to 0 in > /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. If you're using gdm (as all sane people > do), you don't have to worry, X is not reniced by gdm. Thanks Austin! This tip has solved a long-running Audacity 'bug' for me, which I couldn't figure out. I wasn't seeing it on my gdm/blackbox studio machine, but my kdm/kde/blackbox office machine was always affected, no matter which IRQ the soundcard was on or how many different builds of Audacity I tried. Both were running otherwise similar Mandrake 9.1 installations. For the record, with n set to -10 I got consistent skip-forwards of the Audacity cursor during playback, whenever I moved the mouse. That's why I was thinking it was an IRQ problem, but it persisted even with optimised IRQs (10 for the soundcard, 11 for the network card, 12 for the mouse.) I was able to replicate this on two very different hardware machines running kdm, so other Mandrake 9.1/Audacity users must have been affected. I'll post the fix to the Audacity lists. Cheers! Daniel
