I added your suggestion to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=597354#c5 which resolves the coredump in drumstick-sysinfo ///////// ///////// ///////// ///////// Upstream author Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas suggested doing 'sudo modprobe snd-hrtimer' prior to running Jackd. Now drumstick-sysinfo doesn't crash. Furthermore, it looks like ALSA is using the HRTimer: gnulem-15-~/Documents> cat /proc/asound/seq/timer Timer for queue 0 : HR timer Period time : 0.001000000 Skew : 65536 / 65536 gnulem-16-~/Documents> cat /proc/asound/timers G0: system timer : 1000.000us (10000000 ticks) G3: HR timer : 0.001us (1000000000 ticks) Client sequencer queue 0 : running P0-0-0: PCM playback 0-0-0 : SLAVE P0-0-1: PCM capture 0-0-1 : SLAVE P1-0-0: PCM playback 1-0-0 : SLAVE P1-0-1: PCM capture 1-0-1 : SLAVE P1-0-2: PCM playback 1-0-2 : SLAVE P1-0-3: PCM capture 1-0-3 : SLAVE P1-1-0: PCM playback 1-1-0 : SLAVE P2-0-0: PCM playback 2-0-0 : SLAVE P2-0-1: PCM capture 2-0-1 : SLAVE P4-0-0: PCM playback 4-0-0 : SLAVE Client application 2396 : stopped Client application 9950 : stopped P4-0-1: PCM capture 4-0-1 : SLAVE ///////// ///////// ///////// ///////// Niels http://nielsmayer.com _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user