> 1) The current kernel from Ingo would be 2.4.16-rt9. I think that rt5 > didn;t last very long and had some problems. Please try -rt9. OK, will do. > 2) Make sure you reinstall the realtime-lsm package after building that kernel. If I remember correctly this also included a PAM patch: does it still? I will investigate. > 4) Making best use of the kernel requires that you understand the ISR > number for your sound card and reset it's priority higher. This helps > a lot in reducing or eliminating xruns. How does one control the IRQ number of the device? I thought this was determined by the hardware. Can you point me to a URL so that I might learn more? (I dont really know what terms to search for) > 7) Make sure you have the Jack FIFOS mounted on tmpfs. Of course! > As a comment, I don't personally like Jack in /usr local. You might > consider rebuilding Jack one of these days with: > > ./configure --prefix=/usr I was using a modified jack.spec file from the CVS distro of jack. I will change my version but perhaps I should suguest this change to the jack people as well? > Hope this all helps a bit,. It does very much! I didnt really realize that the LSM module ran on top of the rt patch! Does your kernel have Default linux capabilities enabled? I cannot remember if this is supposed to be on or off with the LSM module... Thanks for the help Mark! -thewade