Folderol wrote: > 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 Maybe try jackdmp AKA Jack2? I've heard jackd (non-mp) might not find dual-processor machines cooperative all the time? -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
