20 Jan
2004
20 Jan
'04
6:24 p.m.
I run jack with:
jackstart -R -v -d alsa -d hw:0
...and I get xruns whenever I open a program, move windows around. Hell
sometimes it does it when I'm just looking at it. More specifically, if
I want to record in ardour, jack chokes up an xrun after about 2 seconds.
Now, if I whip up my 2.4.2 with Andrew Morton's Low latency patch,
install alsa-lib, alsa-driver and alsa-utils version 1.0.1with the
gentoo ebuilds, then compile jack like above... presto, no problems.
So I'm thinking somethings missing in the kernel somewhere. Or perhaps
the system settings are disagreeing with the way the kernel is setup.
Ah.. I have just tried 2.4.23 with the low latency patch again.. and I
agree.. Jack is much more stable. I am not sure I was getting as many
xruns as you, but in 2.4.23 I am getting absolutely none, even being
quite rough with opening and closing things.. Even running kernel
compile in the background!
This paired with the kernel panics I was getting on shutdown makes me
think that 2.6.x is not quite ready for audio yet.
James