On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 21:16 -0500, Preston C. wrote:
   (not
necessarily :-)
 If it works with the standard kernel (and it is also 2.6.24) then it is
 probably an interaction between the realtime preemption patch and that
 particular alsa driver.
 [but if the kernel base versions are not exactly the same for the
 standard and realtime kernels then it could also be a problem in the
 particular alsa driver - something that changed between versions]
 
 So what should I do you think? I don't know all to much about Linux
 but would the base versions have to do with my Nvidia graphics card
 not working with the RT kernel? 
 
That is a different issue. The binary nvidia kernel blob needs some glue
code to be rebuilt for each different kernel you install, how to do that
depends on how you installed the nvidia driver originally.
-- Fernando