[linux-audio-user] xruns every 30 seconds

[Paul Davis]

On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 14:05 +0200, Dominic Sacré wrote:
> On Thursday, 7. September 2006 04:12, Paul Davis wrote:
> > > I'd like to run jack on a rather old laptop (IBM Thinkpad X21, P3
> > > 700MHz). The problem is that I'm getting xruns almost every 30
> > > seconds. That is, not every time, but the interval between two xruns
> > > is always an exact multiple of 30 seconds.
> >
> > CD media detection? power management features?
> 
> Well, actually this seems to be somehow related to power management. If I 
> boot with acpi=off, I'm not getting these xruns.
> As I'd still like to use ACPI on this laptop, is it possible to disable it 
> just temporarily while jack is running? Or is there some other way to 
> keep ACPI from interrupting jack?

many win32-DAW web forums are full of recommendations to turn of ACPI
too. i think you have to do without it for low latency audio, at least
on some h/w.