[Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-dev] snd-hdsp oddities

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 01 Jul 2004 22:16:39 -0400,
Paul Davis wrote:
> 
> >I am using the latest 2.6.7 kernel (tried also 2.6.5) but with hdsp I cannot s
> >elect anything lower than 1024x2 buffer settings in jackd without having massi
> >ve xruns.
> 
> Give up on 2.6 for now. If you can't give up on it, then at least run
> all (audio) apps with the environment variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL set to
> 2.4.19. 
> 
> When the dust settles from the kernel and NPTL, 2.6 will be more
> viable. Right now, even though it works for some people, its not a
> generally viable platform for realtime audio.

Hmm, except for some sched policy setting problems on NPTL, I don't
see bigger problem than 2.4+preempt kernel.  For some people,
2.4+preempt might work _casually_ better than 2.6, but it can happen
vice versa.

Shouting "DON'T USE 2.6" isn't a good solution.  Though, we need to
inform to "set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL as a workaround"...


Takashi