Here is my setup
Laptop Toshiba 8510p , Intel Duo 2.2Mhz
2G ram
Fedora Core 9
External SoundBlaster MP3+ (S80270) or On-Board Intel chipset. (they
both do it)

Planet.CCRMA.apps.i386-2007.11.22-1.fc9.ccrma everything updated.

Now, here's my problem.
I cannot get the sound to stop dropping. Jackd only shows 40% use. Not
running realtime, no XRuns etc etc. It should be fine.  I tried just
about every setting I could think of. I get it to work okay, but the
sound experiences constant tiny drops or gaps.

If I record a song as a WAV file, I can open it in Audacity and see each
drop, which are fractions of seconds where the output just stops. I can
edit and remove the gaps, and everything sounds fine. But I can't do
this all the time. There must be a way.

I've tried disabling APIC, changing priorities of processes for IRQ's
and applications etc etc. Nothing improves.

Where should I be looking?

Thanks.




