On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 17:32, Jack O'Quin wrote: > Russell Hanaghan <hanaghan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Have installed Thacs 2.6.5 MM kernel, modprobed "realtime allcaps=1" > > manually. Installed the regular set of apps also from Thacs recently > > updated page for 10.0; > > > > Qjackctl > > Jackit .98 > > Ardour most recent > > etc,etc,etc. > > > > I can get Jack to fire up no problems but the Xrun callbacks run like > > crazy! It seems to do it only on the playback side of the duplex I/O. > > (tested in options of Qjackctl) Does not appear to do it on Capture. > > Ardour connects as client etc. Seems fine although I've not tried to > > record anything yet. Just realized that the only thing I have not set up > > is "tmpfs" although I did on the last install with the exact same setup > > and it still did the same thing. Just tried messing with some jack parameters...If I set jack to the following: jackd -R -t500 -m -dalsa -dhw:0 -r48000 -p256 -n3 -i2 -o2 The extra "period/buffer" seems to do the trick! Must be a picky sound chip? But Qjackctl reports 8ms latency and without Xruns, I can live with that for now. > > This will print the tmpdir JACK is using... > > $ jackd -V > > > Any ideas?? > > There are lots of things that can cause xruns. > > For starters, make sure you're specifying the --realtime (-R) option > and running `jackstart' rather than `jackd'. This is required for > using capabilities as a normal user (modprobe realtime allcaps=1). > > IIRC, Thac's packages may require a command named `jackd-realtime', > instead. Someone will correct me if that is wrong.