Help me get back to a functional DAW (Xruns Galore)

[Michael Willis]

Hey, now that I have that worked out, what's the best way to get Ardour6 on AVLinux? I tried doing a flatpak, but it can't connect to Jack. Should I just compile it?

Shell out a few dollars and download it prebuilt from the official site.

[lykwydchykyn]

Fair enough. I'm not settled on this current install yet, but it would be nice to have an official version.

[Toejam76]

On my rig turning off wifi and changing the audio usb interface to another usb port made those pesky xruns go away.

[LAM]

Changing CPU governor to "performance" was the solution for me.

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echo -n performance | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor

[ahellquist]

I have been running linux and Ardour since long time ago and x-runs and tweaking has been an ongoing battle. I am using both FireWire and USB and tried all kinds of computers and newer laptops seems to be a lot harder to successfully run with low latency. Running Ardour with just alsa seems to work better than with Jack if no interconnect outside Ardour is necessary.

A weird power brick was new to me and I will try that with my current misbehaving laptop.

There should exist a database of things to try to minimize x-runs and also a way to report what was the culprit.

/Anders