Re: [Alsa-user] Bad midi timing

[Clemens L. <cl...@la...>]

Markus Sundstr=F6m wrote:
> it was the 2.4.16 I downloaded to be able to cleanly apply the patc=
h (I
> thought it easier than searching the makefile). However, the rtc-ti=
mer
> module did not build fir that kernel either.

Probably you didn't enable the "Enhanced RTC support" in the kernel.

> snd-rtctimer now loads when I start a sequencer, but the timing
> problems remain, without a change.

Then it's probably that some driver disables all interrupts during a
lengthy operation.

When the problem occurs, are there any disk accesses or graphics
operations?

Try enabling dma or changing the unmaskirq setting of your hard disk
with hdparm.


HTH
Clemens