I compiled my kernel without any fb type of support and I'm still getting dropouts. I recall that when I first booted my new kernel, I don't think I was getting dropouts and it's only later when I installed some custom modules like lirc or vmware or bttv that things started to get bad, but I can't seem to pinpoint the bad guy. Here are the list of devices registered (/proc/devices). I also have a promise ide ultra100 card that I use. I'd have to maybe do a really slim kernel and then try adding modules one by one. I could maybe try the low-lantecy as well but since oss/free and oss/commercial run fine on the same kernel there must be something killing alsa's performance.
Character devices: 1 mem 2 pty/m%d 3 pty/s%d 4 tts/%d 5 cua/%d 7 vcs 10 misc 14 sound 61 BaseRemoteCtl 81 video_capture 116 alsa 119 vmnet 128 ptm 136 pts/%d 162 raw 180 usb 195 nvidia 202 cpu/msr 203 cpu/cpuid Block devices: 2 fd 3 ide0 11 sr 22 ide1 33 ide2 34 ide3 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
