Daniel Chen <seven.steps <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Are you actually using rtp actively? If not, disable it. Well, after things have settled down (see below) it's only using about 10% of the CPU, about 5% each for making audio devices available to the network and for using audio devices from the network. I do like being able to push audio from the machine I mainly work at to other machines around the network where I might go to temporarily. > You *really* want to use either > linux-backports-modules-alsa-lucid-generic This didn't resolve the issue... > or > linux-alsa-driver-modules-$(uname -r) from ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev. But this did. Given that this was the solution in Karmic too, I'm wondering why, whatever installing this packages fixes, didn't make it into Lucid. It's frustrating to have to have to piece together a working distribution from various places, release after release. But I digress. > Note: > they're exclusive. Indeed, and handled nicely (i.e. properly) by the packages' metadata. Very nicely done. b.