Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] CD audio
From: Patrick Shirkey (pshirkey_AT_boosthardware.com)
Date: Fri Jul 12 2002 - 04:34:23 EEST
Joern Nettingsmeier wrote:
> Patrick Shirkey wrote:
>
>>
>>Also I need to confirm my system is running at lowlatency. I am using
>>2.4.19-rc1-ac2 which someone recently said has all the low latency
>>patches included.
>>
>>What is the correct way to turn on lowlatency? echo something?
>
>
> cat /proc/sys/kernel/lowlatency should yield "1". if not,
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/lowlatency.
>
> if the file is not there, you either don't have the patch, or you did
> not choose to have the sysctl, in which case i *think* it is always on.
> run make menuconfig on your current kernel sources, and see whether the
> lowlatency options are there...
>
It appears that 2.4.19-rc1-ac2 doesn't have the lowlatency options
included because they are not part of the menu.
I will add the info here to the low latency howto as it seems things
have changed since it was written.
-- Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd. For the discerning hardware connoisseur http://www.boosthardware.com http://www.boosthardware.com/LAU/guide/ ========================================
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