[LAU] Xruns and Thinkpad T60

Karsten Wiese annabellesgarden at yahoo.de
Wed Dec 19 10:55:12 EST 2007


Am Montag, 17. Dezember 2007 schrieb Raphael Bollen:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I'm struggling to transform a Thinkpad T60 into a decent audio system. I've installed ubuntu studio Feisty and a realtime kernel from texware.it. When I run jack in realtime mode using for 
example 512 frames/period, it shows in its messages a lot (>10/sec) late driver wakeup warnings and does a lot of xruns (>1/sec). I've changed the IRQ priority of the sound card (an HDA intel) to 
realtime but this does not change the warnings/xruns. It's not the first time I setup a computer for audio and so far succeded using 64 frames/period. Here I tried every settings I could 
(periods/buffer, samplerate, even tried with a Maudio Fast track pro) but still no joy.
> 
> This Thinkpad has an ATI graphic card (not on the same IRQ as the sound card) and uses fglrx driver. Could this be the culprit? Is there another (free) driver I could use? Does anyone have an 
idea of what to try next?

Maybe this helps:
Using a 2.6.24-rc5 kernel with jackd @builtin hda intel soundcard:

$ jackd -t100 -RP 80 -d alsa -d hw:0 -p128 -n3

The -t100 and the -n3 took me some time to find out.
With em the only thing noticed so far to stall jackd was $ lsusb.

      Karsten



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