[LAU] Decent but not necessarily pro quality USB audio for laptop?

[david]

Arnold Krille wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 January 2009 11:11:44 david wrote:
>> Thanks, but 100E secondhand means it's probably well out of my price
>> range. My laptop does have a PCMCIA slot. I have a compact flash card
>> reader that plugs into it, but data transfers are very slow through it.
>> I wouldn't be surprised to find that the silly laptop shares interrupts
>> with PCMCIA, video and audio hardware!
> 
> You can get your surprise from a simply "cat /proc/interrupts"...

OK, so what does the following mean:

   0:     287954   IO-APIC-edge      timer
   1:         10   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
   8:          2   IO-APIC-edge      rtc0
   9:       3568   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
  12:        122   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
  14:      12851   IO-APIC-edge      ide0
  15:      48253   IO-APIC-edge      ide1
  16:          1   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb1, yenta
  17:      25387   IO-APIC-fasteoi   Intel 82801DB-ICH4, Intel
                                     82801DB-ICH4 Modem
  18:          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb3
  19:      21569   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb2
  20:          2   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ohci1394
  21:       1957   IO-APIC-fasteoi   eth1
  22:       6207   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ath
  23:     192291   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb4

If I have a soft synth running, big updates to the screen display will 
make it start and stop. But I'm not running an RT kernel here.

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