On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 22:04 -0700, Noah Roberts wrote: > I just got a new laptop. It's an Asus A6U with an AMD64 Turion ML-37, > which runs at 2G and has 1M L2 cache. The system also has 1G of > 333Mhz RAM. The HD is a 5200 80G drive. I have installed linux > 2.6.12, which comes with the RT-Limits patch and I patched PAM myself > to use it. If I run jackd without realtime priority it sounds like > shit but it works. If I try to make it sound better with -R then > ardour gets disconnected from jackd because it is "too slow". Here is > jackd's output: > You're not likely to get xrun-free performance from a standard 2.6.12 kernel. Try it with the realtime-preempt patch. This will at least allow you to debug the cause of the xruns using /proc/latency_trace. Also what sound card are you using? What is the exact JACK command line being used? Lee