> I'm curious, what have you needed to change in the kernel? > I'm on gentoo-sources 2.6.11-r9 and it's been fine. I've been running a vanilla 2.6.10 (no genkernel) with the RT-LSM module loaded which was absolutely OK for my needs (~16msecs latency on my cheap USB soundcard). Unfortunately, I trashed this kernel when playing with some webcams, so I currently run a 2.6.12 without any patches, but I should build a realtime 2.6.12. Unfortunately, I'm not that familiar with kernel building, and since the RT-LSM module got dropped I'm in need on some info how to build a 2.6.12 for audio work before I can continue kernel exploring ;-) . Best regards ce