James Stone wrote: >>I run jack with: >>jackstart -R -v -d alsa -d hw:0 >> >>...and I get xruns whenever I open a program, move windows around. Hell >>sometimes it does it when I'm just looking at it. More specifically, if >>I want to record in ardour, jack chokes up an xrun after about 2 seconds. >> >>Now, if I whip up my 2.4.2 with Andrew Morton's Low latency patch, >>install alsa-lib, alsa-driver and alsa-utils version 1.0.1with the >>gentoo ebuilds, then compile jack like above... presto, no problems. >>So I'm thinking somethings missing in the kernel somewhere. Or perhaps >>the system settings are disagreeing with the way the kernel is setup. >> >> >> >Ah.. I have just tried 2.4.23 with the low latency patch again.. and I >agree.. Jack is much more stable. I am not sure I was getting as many >xruns as you, but in 2.4.23 I am getting absolutely none, even being >quite rough with opening and closing things.. Even running kernel >compile in the background! > > phew, it's good to see I'm not the only one. > >This paired with the kernel panics I was getting on shutdown makes me >think that 2.6.x is not quite ready for audio yet. > >James > > >
