Arnold Krille wrote: > On Tuesday 06 January 2009 11:11:44 david wrote: >> Thanks, but 100E secondhand means it's probably well out of my price >> range. My laptop does have a PCMCIA slot. I have a compact flash card >> reader that plugs into it, but data transfers are very slow through it. >> I wouldn't be surprised to find that the silly laptop shares interrupts >> with PCMCIA, video and audio hardware! > > You can get your surprise from a simply "cat /proc/interrupts"... OK, so what does the following mean: 0: 287954 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 10 IO-APIC-edge i8042 8: 2 IO-APIC-edge rtc0 9: 3568 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi 12: 122 IO-APIC-edge i8042 14: 12851 IO-APIC-edge ide0 15: 48253 IO-APIC-edge ide1 16: 1 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb1, yenta 17: 25387 IO-APIC-fasteoi Intel 82801DB-ICH4, Intel 82801DB-ICH4 Modem 18: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb3 19: 21569 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb2 20: 2 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci1394 21: 1957 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth1 22: 6207 IO-APIC-fasteoi ath 23: 192291 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb4 If I have a soft synth running, big updates to the screen display will make it start and stop. But I'm not running an RT kernel here. -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user