Is there anything I´m missing?? When I wrote "recompile the kernel for having realtime" I was thinking about simply what I have done -- download the kernel-sources-2.6.11 package from a Debian repository, run "make xconfig", toggling capabilities, marking the Realtime-LSM option, and loading the "realtime" module "gid=29" (Debian "audio" group) for running JACK as non-root. I´ve heard about patches for realtime, but only for 2.4.x kernels. Are there OTHER patches for 2.6.x kernels? Well, event if that´s true, it still means (even more) complication for having realtime, and I still think this is not exactly the usability expected by a normal multimedia user who would like to move to GNU-Linux. I hope that all the big distros adopt realtime capabilities as a default in their kernels, so the music apps should simply invoke something like "modprobe realtime", and "voilá", you´ve got a realtime system for your music. By the way, as there is a topic about Debian/DeMuDi/Ubuntu, I run Kurumin Linux, a installable-live-CD Brazilian distro based in Knoppix/Debian. I have installed the 2.6.11 kernel and lots of apps from testing and unstable Debian. I use it for all my daily computing needs, never had a serious bug, and it has been working fine for music. Would there be really any advantage in using DeMuDi? Thanks and regards! Fabricio Rocha Brasilia, Brasil _______________________________________________________ Yahoo! Acesso Grátis - Internet rápida e grátis. Instale o discador agora! http://br.acesso.yahoo.com/