[LAU] Ubuntu slowing down when using Ardour

[Brett McCoy]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Aurélien Leblond <blablack at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm using 12.10 because of other issues in 12.04 (especially USB soundcard
> requiring a higher kernel to run ok).
> Over the past 2 years I am having this laptop, I haven't been able to get a
> single stable version of Ubuntu for playing music:
> - Soundcard not supported
> - EHCI not supporting USB 2.0 soundcard
> - XHCI not supporting USB 2.0 soundcard
> - Compiz being too slow
> - FGLRX creating xrun
>
> Now I re-installed FGLRX and it runs ok, but I forgot about another bug in
> the couple FGLRX and Compiz that makes my CPU go 100% (this issue was
> already in 12.04)...
> I have all these issues reported or fixed...

Are you using plain vanilla Ubuntu or Ubuntu Studio? If you want to do
audio & video work, you should use Ubuntu Studio, the stock kernel
will work correctly with jackd if you want to use the realtime
scheduling

-- 
Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.brettwmccoy.com
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