I&#39;ve asked about this on the ubuntu forums to little avail...just wondering what you guys might think. Far from a professor of linux audio, but I&#39;m getting more and more into it. <br><br>I&#39;ve built a couple basic machines from scratch recently, amd dual cores w/ 2gb of memory. Not wanting to spend the extra dough on a nice sound card + interface yet, I settle with just using chipset sound. The 9.10 and 9.04 vanilla kernels have worked for me pretty well using Jack, but if I whenever I try to get the RT working, all kinds of problems show up: insane amounts of Xruns just as Jack starts up, Ardour can&#39;t connect, and processor ends up using half its resources to stay running. Needless to say, recording is not really possible. <br>
<br>This is after tweaking memlocks, nice %s , buffers and so on. <br><br>I know that chipset sound, is not a very efficient recording interface, but it seems there is more going on, besides that. <br><br>I have two main questions here (they sum up to: how much of this is the chipset?)<br>
a. i had heard here and there in forums that the RT kernel in 9.04 and on was &#39;broken&#39;. is that true?<br><br>b. Is RT only worth using for higher end machines with more ram and separate sound cards? <br><br>And one more: Would anyone recommend using a different audio OS for this situation, like 64 studio? (i might have mentioned jacklab, but it seems that project has been killed)<br>
<br>Im hoping someone can help settle my curiosity here......<br><br><br><br><br>