[linux-audio-user] Noob...Latency, Mandrake and Dell questions...

[Andreas Kuckartz]

> If I set Jack parameters in Qjackctl any lower than 1024 I get Xrun
> mayhem. (at 44100) I have also tried this running from consoles as root
> and it does not seem to make much difference. Am I expecting too much?

Did you switch on DMA for hard disc accesses?

To do that a command like this needs to be executed:
# hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda

Andreas