I built 2.6.10 with the realtime-lsm patch pointed to by Lee and things are looking good. I did modprobe realtime gid=(my gid, one user machine) and started jackd using qjackctl as I did as root on my old kernel and got about the same results... ...as far as I can tell. I cannot connect PD to jack for some reason now. I usedto run both PD and Jackd as root. PD drops its root status after setting up scheduling (I think) but now I get a seg fault if I have jackd running as me, and pd as me, or pd runs with Jackd as me if I start PD as root; but then PD cannot connect to jackd. What do I do now? Im anxious to test jackd and this realtime kernel! Thanks! -thewade