A 2.6.12-rc3 kernel with the realtime patch works great here on a laptop - but that is a 32-bit system. It is better than all other 2.6.x kernels which I tried so far. Cheers, Andreas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Noah Roberts" <roberts.noah@xxxxxxxxx> To: "A list for linux audio users" <linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 5:39 PM Subject: [linux-audio-user] kernel upgrade issues > I upgraded to 2.6.11 from 2.6.5 and it seems that was a mistake. My > thumb drive no longer works with Linux and I get more xruns than ever; > mostly on playback, which is odd. I didn't patch the kernel yet, all > I did was use stock but I enabled the pre-empt this time. Last kernel > didn't even have that. > > Anyone have some thoughts? I thought people where saying that post > 2.6.10 was the best there was for audio. So far it doesn't seem like > it. > > A have an amd64 and I am in 64 bit mode. > > Thanks for any suggestions.