[LAU] snd-hrtimer ALSA module

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Sat Jan 24 21:07:28 EST 2009


Dan Muresan wrote:

> Has anybody successfully used the ALSA snd-hrtimer module, as present in
> ALSA 1.0.18a and 1.0.19? It seems to cause lock-ups in just a few
> seconds on a 2.6.27 kernel for me.
> 
> The backstory to this is that I am trying to use Rosegarden on a 2.6.27
> non-realtime kernel (a backport for Ubuntu Hardy from the kernel PPA).
> Rosegarden requires an ALSA timer (it cannot use /dev/rtc0 directly).
> The system timer-based snd-timer module works at 250 Hz (too coarse)

IIRC, the usual recommendation is to compile your own kernel with system 
timer set to 1000 Hz.

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