It would be funny to end up running Gentoo but *having*
to build my
kernels on a Fedora box! ;-)
- Mark
I've done quite well using jack with the default gentoo-dev-sources. An hour long
ardour session recording 16 tracks at once onto one harddrive on an AthlonXP 2100 box
using the kde desktop without any xruns can't be too bad. :)
Part of your problem may not have so much to do with software as with hardware. The two
boxes you describe sound quite different. Even though the laptop has a much faster
processor, if it has poorly supported hardware it can cause all sorts of problems relating
to xruns.
good luck.
-Reuben