[LAU] Trying to get rid of xruns

[david]

Matthew Smith wrote:

> After a long (15 years) break in music making/recording, I have just set 
> myself up with a new virtual studio - bit of a culture shock when all my 
> previous experience was analogue plus Notator on an Atari.

Well, my music making was pen and paper, an acoustic piano, classical 
and electric guitars, and a portable cassette tape recorder ... I still 
have that recording!

> I'm running Gentoo Linux (x86_64) on a dual-core ThinkPad with 1.5Gb 
> RAM.  To save unnecessary processing overhead and because I like a 
> 'clean' desktop, I am using the Fluxbox window manager.

I like it, too. Reminds me a bit of the design philosophy of the Targa 
TIPS video painting program AT&T made for use with their line of Targa 
video capture and editing cards ...

My guess about your xruns problem is ... do you have hardware on this 
Thinkpad that perhaps is sharing interrupts with your audio hardware? 
People on the list have mentioned getting xruns when a laptop had audio 
and video hardware sharing the same interrupt and the system had to 
update the display at the same time the audio hardware was in use. 
Another source was unused wireless networking hardware - the system 
would keep checking for a network connection even though there was none.

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David
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