kernel question

[David Adler]

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:44 PM, altern <altern2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi
>
>  i have an up to date Ubuntu Studio system, i am a bit confused about
>  which kernel i should boot my system with 2.6.21-1-multimedia-486 or
>  2.6.22-14-generic?

For audio work you should always boot the multimedia-kernel to make
sure your audio-apps  can nicely work in realtime without xruns
occurring in Jack, especially when CPU-usage runs high.

The advantage of the generic kernel is IMHO lower power consumption,
which is relevant on Laptops but apart from that the multimedia-kernel
works fine for all tasks.

You might have a look at this thread
http://www.nabble.com/Realtime-Kernel-to16126537.html#a16382326
where a similar question was discussed in more depth.