Lee Revell wrote: > On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 09:55, Mark Knecht wrote: >>For me this is not a mere curiosity. Yesterday I brought up FC2 and >>then, with much help from Steve Harris and Fernando, got a new Planet >>kernel installed. No sooner than I had started Jack I then started using >>my USB mouse and getting huge xruns. Since USB is shared with the sound >>chip I think it's an example of what we ae talking about here. > > > Not quite. If you have a USB sound card it's a different ball game, > because you don't just have two separate devices sharing the interrupt, > you actually have them competing for USB bus bandwidth. Although it > should work if they are on different USB controllers. Unfortunately I > am not an expert on USB so I can't help much more. > > Lee > > It is a PCI sound chip sharing an interrupt with a PCI USB OHCI (EHCI?) contoller. There is no sharing of USB bandwidth. Sorry - that was badly worded before...