On Tuesday 01 August 2006 13:14, Jonty Needham was like: > I'm running Suse 9.3 on a reasonable machine. (1.6GHz AMD athlon, 512MB > ram). My studio at the moment consists of Rosegarden, Hydrogen, > zynaddsubfx, qsynth and Ardour(when I don't get CPU overflows). > > I've been using KDE, and upon reccomendation I tried FVWM as it's > lighter, but I had the same number (lots!) of xruns and problems. It did > run slightly better; I had 9 extra megs of ram free but realistically I > want no xruns. I'm not running a patched kernel as I'm unable to find > out what patches SUSE needs to run that conflict with the realtime > patches. My kernel is 2.6.11 atm. Any advice? Apologies as this is > really trivial; it's just that I have very little idea what to do about > it. Your choice of Window Manager should not make that much difference. Using a much more recent kernel and recompiling it to allow realtime capabilities should do the trick. You shouldn't be getting xruns on a machine like this unless you really push it. -- cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim We are the people We've been waiting for.
