On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 15:17 +0000, Chris Cannam wrote: > - ALSA sequencer uses kernel timers by default and > of course they only run at 100 or 250Hz in many > kernels. >
Not anymore, since 2.6.14 when the kernel developers decided to roll back HZ to 250 it uses the RTC by default. > - ALSA sequencer can sync to RTC, but the > associated module (snd-rtctimer) appears to hang > some kernels solid when loaded or used. I don't have > much information about that, but I can probably find > out some more. > Some bugs in the RTC driver were fixed in the 2.6.13.x series, make sure these users try a newer kernel. Lee
