20 Nov
2002
20 Nov
'02
1:07 a.m.
* Brian Redfern <bredfern(a)calarts.edu> [Nov 19 02 22:57]:
Yeah, more and more I think the real culprit is Redhat
8.0, I was using
7.3 and had both my systems set for low latency with the 2.4.19 kernel, I
think its the ol' blue curve, it could possibly be the cd, but the
frequncy of over runs I'm getting is really bad, like one every two
seconds. I don't think I'm going to bother running any tests, I just need
to first off try a different window manager, and then if my over runs are
still bad under fluxbox, then I'll at least know its not gnome. But then
if I stop having xruns I don't have to do that work to be back in
shape. I'm just glad its not an issue of needing to upgrade my
motherboard.
OTOH I don't agree here I either. I have run enlightement/gnome on
this platform with decent success (BTW its a 600 MHz Celeron). The
only reason I run fluxbox is because I like it. CD polling *is* a real
killer, but if the xruns are frequent I would look at hardware
settings. Did you do the whole IRQ thing Mark Knecht commented on? It
made a huge difference when I got my card down to IRQ 5. Are you sure
LL is enabled? Are your disk tuned. Maybe you've heard all that
before. Anyway, good luck.
Are there any low-latency checklists out there?
--ant