I am running Planet CCRMA at Home's 2.4 kernel "with capabilities," and it
does not have low latency enabled. The low latency kernel that I installed
hangs when the GNOME session is starting up.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Phillips" 
To: "Csound Developers Discussion List" 
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 12:28 PM
Subject: [CSOUND-DEV:4729] Re: Linux audio


> Greetings:
>
>   Michael, are you running a stock kernel or one enabled for low-latency ?
>
>   John, what is the output from 'cat /proc/asound/cards' on your
> ALSA-enabled machine ?
>
> Best,
>
> dp
>
>
>
> gogins@pipeline.com wrote:
>
> >Thanks, I understand your situation now. This is not good for Csound. Do
> >you want to experiment with rtaudio in place of PortAudio?
> >
> >I should add that I am still getting dropouts with ALSA. My Linux machine
> >is a 1 gigahertz PIII with 256 megabytes RAM, and top shows only a slight
> >load for rendering trappedrt.csd, so I am starting to wonder if the
> >dropouts are a PortAudio problem and not a PC problem.
> >
> >How important is ASIO on Windows for Csound? Is this something that you
can
> >live without, or wait for the PortAudio developers to do?
> >
> >Original Message:
> >-----------------
> >From:  jpff@codemist.co.uk
> >Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 07:07:58 +0100
> >To: csound-dev@eartha.mills.edu, csound-dev@eartha.mills.edu
> >Subject: [CSOUND-DEV:4727] Re: Linux audio
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>>>>>"gogins@pipeline" == gogins@pipeline com 
writes:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >
> > gogins@pipeline> Well, I seem to recall that you said PortAudio
> > gogins@pipeline> reports only one interface.
> >
> >No, I see exactly 2 devices, /dev/dsp and the sound card, just like
> >you
> >
> > gogins@pipeline> I infer that PortAudio, OSS, and Csound do not play
well
> >together, but I
> > gogins@pipeline> guess that PortAudio, ALSA, and Csound may well be
quite
> >usable - I am
> > gogins@pipeline> probably getting dropouts because my machine is still
old
> >and slow, just
> > gogins@pipeline> not as old and slow as the old one! The aplay utility
> >works just fine, so
> > gogins@pipeline> does xmms.
> >
> >Yes, aplay works correctly.  What does not is csound creating a mono
> >output, or a stereo file on the M-Audio (which is a 12 channel chip)
> >The PA setup does not look at the .asoundrc file and so in my set ups
> >I cannot select the SPDIF output on the Hamerfall or the analog output
> >on the M-Audio.
> >
> >==John ffitch
> >
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gogins@pipeline.com wrote:

>I am running Planet CCRMA at Home's 2.4 kernel "with capabilities," and it
>does not have low latency enabled. The low latency kernel that I installed
>hangs when the GNOME session is starting up.
>  
>
Hopefully you reported that to Fernando. I've had no troubles with GNOME 
+ PlanetC, though I don't use it myself (I prefer the very lightweight 
BlackBox window manager).

dp