[LAU] Re: [Rosegarden-user] Kernel 2.6.21/22

[david]

Richard Cooper wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:47:13 -0400, david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hmmm ... no realtime kernel here, never any problems playing MP3 files.
> 
> I think it was a combination of small buffers on my "SB Live! 24-bit" and  
> ALSA's insistance that the kernel not do anything to enhance a sound card,  
> such as emulate a larger buffer when the one provided by the sound card is  
> too small.  ALSA could have easily done it from kernel space with it's  
> implied realtime priority via interrupts, but no.

That could be. Haven't had an SB card around for a long while - I think 
the last one was an SB Live! 512 PCI, I never used that one with Linux. 
It worked just fine with OS/2 and Windows95 ...

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David
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