with Fluxbox windowmanager under Gentoo on a laptop. I do notice that if I have another app running that does something with the screen space [the animations played in the Gkrellm2 system monitor, for example], then I get periodic interruptions of sound. However, I can use grids, sliders, and even open up subpatches and drag them around without fear of boo-boos.
So what is the differences between my system and yours? It could have something to do with PCI interrupts, I suppose. Where is your sound card and where is your video card in regards to IRQ assignments? Are you on a desktop or a laptop? What is your sound card and what is your video card? Can you reassign IRQs in the BIOS, or failing that, try the card-rearrangement-voodoo-dance? Low-latency and/or preemptive kernel patches? Kernel version? Need...more...information.... ;-)
my system: laptop, gentoo linux, kernel 2.4.23-ck1, maudio quattro, ati radeon... since it's laptop, i can't reassign irqs ... but since the soundcard is a usb device and the video card an agp device, i don't think that it has something to do with interrupts (although i'm not sure...)
anyway, i'll try yves patch first...
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