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* Brian Redfern  [Nov 19 02 22:57]:

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> Yeah, more and more I think the real culprit is Redhat 8.0, I was using

> 7.3 and had both my systems set for low latency with the 2.4.19 kernel, I

> think its the ol' blue curve, it could possibly be the cd, but the

> frequncy of over runs I'm getting is really bad, like one every two

> seconds. I don't think I'm going to bother running any tests, I just need

> to first off try a different window manager, and then if my over runs are

> still bad under fluxbox, then I'll at least know its not gnome. But then

> if I stop having xruns I don't have to do that work to be back in

> shape. I'm just glad its not an issue of needing to upgrade my

> motherboard.

> 

OTOH I don't agree here I either. I have run enlightement/gnome on

this platform with decent success (BTW its a 600 MHz Celeron). The

only reason I run fluxbox is because I like it. CD polling *is* a real

killer, but if the xruns are frequent I would look at hardware

settings. Did you do the whole IRQ thing Mark Knecht commented on? It

made a huge difference when I got my card down to IRQ 5. Are you sure

LL is enabled? Are your disk tuned. Maybe you've heard all that

before. Anyway, good luck.
Are there any low-latency checklists out there? 
--ant