2009/5/3 Scott <lau@troutpocket.org>
I used to put up with an occasional xrun with the older kernels.  But I'm writing to
report that I just installed 2.6.29.1-RT4 from CCRMA on Fedora 10 and I didn't see a
single xrun.  In case anyone is interested, I record 12 simultaneous mic'd inputs from
an Echo AudioFire12 to a Dell XPS laptop:

   Dell XPS M1210 laptop
       1GB RAM
       Intel T5600 1.8GHz Core2Duo
       Intel 945GM Video controller
       Sigmatel 9220 internal audio controller
       Internal Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
       http://tinyurl.com/clr43l

   Echo Audio Audiofire12
       http://www.echoaudio.com/Products/FireWire/AudioFire12/index.php

Thanks to the kernel team for making such an awesome product!

-Scott

+1
The only problem was the iwl4965 module which was missing dbg related one on default 2.6.29.2 config.

For debian users: I must say that make-kpkg doesn't generate initrd (--initrd option) with linux-2.6.29.2 sources so I had to create one with update-initramfs and then add the following line to menu.lst in /boot/grub dir.

initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.29.2-rt10

I am currently switching to 2.6.29.2-rt11.

regards
-r