On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 10:10 +0000, Jamie Bullock wrote: > 2. Xruns created by battery polls: I don't know if this is the same > problem that you are experiencing, but I used to run the gnome battstat > applet on my gnome panel. It took me a while to diagnose that this was > causing a lot of xruns, presumably every time it checks the battery > status. You might want to check that you don't have any status applets > running. You might also want to check that you don't have the kacpid > bug (check google for this). Known issue. Alan Cox sez "you have a severely broken BIOS that implements ACPI via SMM". You would have exactly the same problem no matter what OS you ran on it, because SMM bypasses the OS completely. The only workaround is to disable ACPI daemons, batter monitors, etc while doing audio work. Lee
