Thank you Frank and Clemens for your precious help. I will try your solutions as soon as I have a few minutes (-: Frank >> I run Pd 0.38.4 latest from Miller's website. Cheers J? columbiatwo@xxxxxxx a ?crit : > Hello everyone. > > I decided to upgrade to a 2.6.11 kernel following the advices Maarten de Boer > and Pau Arumi who gave a nice presentation at AES 2005. > > I was previously running a 2.6.8 kernel and everything was fine with my Asus > L2000D laptop (SiS soundchip onboard running Trident4D ALSA driver, Evolution > UC33 MIDI controller up and running). The only lack was realtime audio. I never > dared taking the first step into realtime kernel tuning. > > I upgraded to the 2.6.11 using make oldconfig and tuning it for realtime > (Security options and other stuff). Compilation went right. I compiled Pd again > and when I tried starting it it froze the whole system: no mouse nor keyboard > control, no X response (no graphical refresh)... > > I recompiled the kernel 3 or 4 times changing a few options, recompiled Pd as > well. Nothing changes: complete system freeze. > > I'm running a Debian unstable, Fluxbox desktop. > > Anyone got a clue on what's wrong? > > Alternatively, what benefits will I really earn upgrading from 2.6.8 to 2.6.11? > Maybe I can tune my good old 2.6.8 to do realtime as good as a 2.6.11? > > Cheers list. > >