[linux-audio-user] Frustrated bigtime

[Lee Revell]

On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 22:04 -0700, Noah Roberts wrote:
> I just got a new laptop.  It's an Asus A6U with an AMD64 Turion ML-37,
> which runs at 2G and has 1M L2 cache.  The system also has 1G of
> 333Mhz RAM.  The HD is a 5200 80G drive.  I have installed linux
> 2.6.12, which comes with the RT-Limits patch and I patched PAM myself
> to use it.  If I run jackd without realtime priority it sounds like
> shit but it works.  If I try to make it sound better with -R then
> ardour gets disconnected from jackd because it is "too slow".  Here is
> jackd's output:
> 

You're not likely to get xrun-free performance from a standard 2.6.12
kernel.  Try it with the realtime-preempt patch.  This will at least
allow you to debug the cause of the xruns using /proc/latency_trace.

Also what sound card are you using?  What is the exact JACK command line
being used?

Lee