9 Feb
2004
9 Feb
'04
3:48 p.m.
Hi,
On Monday 09 February 2004 20.06, Chris Pickett wrote:
mmm, 128 is a little on the low side when running X ... possibly there are
some daemons you could turn of ?
Some alternatives would be:
* Use something a bit more lightweight than Ardour, you mention ecamegapedal,
did you try anything else? There is a bunch of similar apps. E.g. JackRack. I
think there are some that don't require jack also... they might give better
mileage.
* don't run X, would definitely improve on the memory issue. Probably your
best choice then would be to run ecasound directly (ecamegapedal is a kind of
wrapper around ecasound). There is a bit of learning curve to understand all
the features but ecasound is very capable. Jack would not be needed then
either.
/Robert
I am still
unable to run Jack at anything less than 1024 without having
Xrun hell. I set the HD to DMA "on" I had apm as opposed to acpi
running...turned it off and found no difference.
Check that your CPU speed is not getting screwed up by the power
management (i.e. you have the full 650 MHz). I don't know if it's even
a problem for Dell laptops, but it was/is for certain Thinkpads.
I notice that running Ardour (Beta .9beta 9 RPM
from Thacs RPMs), after
I have fired up Jackstart or Jackd-realtime from Qjackctl with -d alsa
hw:0 1024 2 as root and then fire up Ardour and add a track, the pcm
chain is connected (also visible in Qjackctl "Connect")and I have sound
but the pc starts running slow and the Hard drive light is constantly
on. I'm not recording anything...is this Jack writing to disc? I only
have 128 megs in this machine...
It's worth maxing out the RAM in your laptop. I have a Thinkpad with
similar specs, and I found upgrading from 128 to 384 Mb RAM made a huge
difference in performance. Make sure you get the right kind, or at
least a compatible kind. It seems likely that this is the problem; even
if it isn't, it's still a very worthwhile (and cheap) upgrade.
Cheers,
Chris