Interesting. So I was doing some googling to try to find out some technical details on what is involved in the low latency kernel , and I came across this to start with. http://askubuntu.com/questions/126664/why-to-choose-low-latency-kernel-over-generic-or-realtime-ones As I was reading I was curious as to my CPU power, so I opened a shell to run "lshw". As soon as I hit "enter" my rip stopped in the usual fashion, but then everything on my desktop slowed right down. My mouse was moving in slow-motion. I tried typing this and it was missing letters (since rebooted). So it seems basically that my system is underpowered, I guess. I have 4 cores, and this is from lshw. Maybe I need a real sound card too? description: CPU product: AMD A8-5600K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] physical id: 35 bus info: cpu@0 version: AMD A8-5600K APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics slot: P0 size: 1400MHz capacity: 3600MHz width: 64 bits clock: 100MHz _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user