Hi Ralf,

I can only confirm that 3.10.9-rt5 gives plenty xruns and frequent Ardour crashes on my Arch install (x86_64, Asus UL30JT with i5 processor). I didn't get the other problems you mention though, but that's probably because I have a very light install which I only use for audio. Following a comment by the package maintainer on AUR, I downgraded yesterday to 3.8.11-rt8. The xruns disappeared and Ardour is usable again. It did freeze a couple of times for 2-3 secs, but no xruns and it recovered fine after that.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I'll check 3.8.13-rt14 to see if it still works for audio, and maybe solves the freeze problem too.

Cheers,

Victor

On 26 August 2013 11:00, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:

Hi :)

on my machine 3.10.6-rt3 and 3.10.9-rt5 x86_64 don't work properly.
Linux 3.10.9 doesn't cause issues. The last kernel-rt I used before the
3.10-rt kernels was 3.8.13-rt14, not used for audio production, but for
daily desktop usage without issues.

When running 3.10.9-rt5 even a terminal can't be opened anymore.
Xfce-terminal and xterm open without a prompt, Ctrl+Alt+F-keys don't
work. A shutdown does start delayed and then takes an hour without
completely finishing.

Does a 3.10-rt kernel work for someone on x86_64 architecture without
issues? The mobo is an ASUS M2A-VM HDMI with an AMD Athlon dual-core 2.1
GHz, BE-2350 and 4 GiB RAM.

Only tested with Arch Linux, perhaps I should test linux-3.10-rt on
Ubuntu Studio too, not done until now, because building takes around two
hours.

Regards,
Ralf

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