[linux-audio-user] No luck moving for the 2.4 kernel to 2.6

Hi. I'm wondering how good the new 2.6 kernel is at recording live audio. I managed to get my 2.4 kernel with Andrew Morton low latency patch to record without any of those troublesome xruns but when I tried using the stable 2.6 I get more more problems than I ever did when I was first experimenting with the 2.4 (and that wasn't pretty) I intend to use my box mainly for recording live audio and editing in rezound and ardour. I used the instructions from http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=88781&highlight=jack+howto to finally get the 2.4 kernel to work properly but have had no luck with the 2.6 Essentially, jack coughs up LOTS of xruns when using ardour and often jack will shut ardour down or the whole computer will freeze (even the mouse won't move) Another problem I've noticed is that seeing alsa is now built in, how am I to get the midi keyboard to work? In the 2.4 I used #modprobe snd-seq (because it can't be added to /etc/modules.autoload) but in the 2.6 alsa is built in and the midi keyboard doesn't work by default. I notcied there is an Andrew Morton version of the 2.6 at http://www.kernel.org/patchtypes/mm.html Should I be using those? and what does mm stand for anyway? Is there anything else besides what's mentioned in that above howto that I should be aware of? Thanks