On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:39:11 -0600 Gary Morgan <gmorgan777@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've asked about this on the ubuntu forums to little avail...just wondering > what you guys might think. Far from a professor of linux audio, but I'm > getting more and more into it. > > I've built a couple basic machines from scratch recently, amd dual cores w/ > 2gb of memory. Not wanting to spend the extra dough on a nice sound card + > interface yet, I settle with just using chipset sound. The 9.10 and 9.04 > vanilla kernels have worked for me pretty well using Jack, but if I whenever > I try to get the RT working, all kinds of problems show up: insane amounts > of Xruns just as Jack starts up, Ardour can't connect, and processor ends up > using half its resources to stay running. Needless to say, recording is not > really possible. > > This is after tweaking memlocks, nice %s , buffers and so on. > > I know that chipset sound, is not a very efficient recording interface, but > it seems there is more going on, besides that. > > I have two main questions here (they sum up to: how much of this is the > chipset?) > a. i had heard here and there in forums that the RT kernel in 9.04 and on > was 'broken'. is that true? > > b. Is RT only worth using for higher end machines with more ram and separate > sound cards? > > And one more: Would anyone recommend using a different audio OS for this > situation, like 64 studio? (i might have mentioned jacklab, but it seems > that project has been killed) > > Im hoping someone can help settle my curiosity here...... Try 64studio 3(beta). This works very well for me on a dual core athlon. However, I do also have a 2496 sound card. Personally, I've not found any of the plain ubuntu offerings stable enough. Incidentally, it looks like we may end up going straight from there to 4 actually :o -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
