[linux-audio-user] Latency issues with laptops

[Mark Knecht]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:02:03 -0400, Peter Lutek <plutek at infinity.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 19:01, Lee Revell wrote:
> --snip--
> > But we can at least identify the problematic laptops,
> > complain to the manufacturers, and warn people not to buy them.
> 
> has anyone yet compiled such a list?
> 
> -p
> 
> 

Not yet. I'd also like to go a bit further in my understanding of the
problem before I participate in warning people about something turns
out to be a bit more nuanced.

I suppose my laptop (also a Compaq - an R3070us) could be considered a
'problematic' laptop also, but my thought is that I don't really care
about ACPI when I'm doing audio anyway. I'm not running on batteries
or doing any of that sort of stuff when I'm recording and mixing. I
want ACPI and every other distraction to the machine turned off. For
instance, I'm seeing far fewer xruns still with fluxbox. I see one or
two under Gnome. I see bunches of them under KDE. So, at least with
ACPI off, I think it's not so certain that ACPI is the *only* problem
here.

As long as I can make it work in some configuration then I'm happy and
the laptop is no longer problematic, at least for me...

My guess is that 'users'  just using Alsa would not care so much about
latency and that they'd be happy with the machine.

Just my two cents.

- Mark