[PlanetCCRMA] kernel 2.6.14 and Alsa 1.0.10 for FC3

[Frode Petersen]

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 19:52 +0100, Frode Petersen wrote:
> 
>>Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>>
>>>At this point I have reached a dead end, there is a problem with Jack
>>>and the current dual core machines I have here at CCRMA. The [Mark's
>>>answer just got here, I'll keep writing anyway :-] problem manifests
>>>itself through warnings in Jack that do not translate into xruns, but
>>>should not happen anyway[*]. 
>>
>>I'm about to buy a dual core A64 machine, so this made me wonder:
>>Does this affect all versions of kernel/ALSA/Jack? Would I be better off 
>>not getting a dual core?
>>Is it possible to run a normal kernel using only one core instead of the 
>>smp kernel? Would that be a possible (temporary) solution?
>>
>>I have no experience with SMP setups, as you probably see from my 
>>questions. :-)
> 
> 
> Go ahead and buy it. This is more (at this point) annoying than a real
> problem. Jack spews warnings - which I guess we could disable - but it
> does not normally has dropouts (xruns). In the worst case scenario you
> can boot into the uniprocessor kernel anyway. 
> 
> Anyway, I have to find a way to solve this, we have 40 new machines I
> built using athlon dual xore cpus :-)
> 
> -- Fernando
> 
> 
> 
> 

Thanks! Now I can go to sleep tonight!
;-)

Frode