Reinstalling fresh

Mike Holstein mikeh789 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 29 04:09:39 UTC 2011


On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:58 PM, tommy <allornothin.tommy at gmail.com> wrote:

> The bios doesn't give me any options to change it., lspci gave me  :
> JMicron Technology Corp. IEEE 1394 Host Controller,     Kernel driver in
> use: ohci1394 Kernel modules: firewire-ohci, ohci1394
> Is there a way to adjust irq settings to something that would work better?
>
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Mike Holstein <mikeh789 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:36 PM, tommy <allornothin.tommy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hey Mike, this is the output from cat/proc/interrupts, thanks for the
> help
> >> :)
> >>            CPU0       CPU1       CPU2       CPU3
> >>   0:        128          9          3          1   IO-APIC-edge
>  timer
> >>   1:          0          1          1          0   IO-APIC-edge
>  i8042
> >>   8:          1          0          0          0   IO-APIC-edge
>  rtc0
> >>   9:          0          0          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi
> acpi
> >>  12:          1          0          0          3   IO-APIC-edge
>  i8042
> >>  16:         14          4    34994 10236   IO-APIC-fasteoi
> >> uhci_hcd:usb3, nvidia
> >>  17:          3          7          5      229   IO-APIC-fasteoi   eth1
> >>  18:    2264329    1667668 58      58   IO-APIC-fasteoi
> >> ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb8, ohci1394
> >>  19:  1082    1087 866209     182664   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ata_piix,
> >> ata_piix
> >>  20:          0        0          0            0   IO-APIC-fasteoi
> >> uhci_hcd:usb7
> >>  21:          0          0          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi
> >> uhci_hcd:usb4, uhci_hcd:usb5
> >>  22:         78         75         67      69   IO-APIC-fasteoi   HDA
> >> Intel
> >>  23:         40         41  109995 86864   IO-APIC-fasteoi
> >> ehci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb6
> >>  28:         16     306117        11     16   PCI-MSI-edge      eth0
> >>  NMI:          0          0         0          0   Non-maskable
> interrupts
> >>  LOC:    4235366  4175547 4002622    3956454   Local timer interrupts
> >>  SPU:          0          0          0        0   Spurious interrupts
> >>  CNT:          0          0          0         0   Performance counter
> >> interrupts
> >>  PND:          0          0          0        0   Performance pending
> work
> >>  RES: 2754223  417620 396099 587164  Rescheduling interrupts
> >>  CAL:  5387   4362     3863       2625   Function call interrupts
> >>  TLB:       5392       5471  4287 5591   TLB shootdowns
> >>  TRM:          0          0          0        0   Thermal event
> interrupts
> >>  THR:          0          0          0        0   Threshold APIC
> >> interrupts
> >>  MCE:          0          0          0          0   Machine check
> >> exceptions
> >>  MCP:         13         13         13         13   Machine check polls
> >>  ERR:          0
> >>  MIS:          0
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Mike Holstein <mikeh789 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:06 PM, tommy <allornothin.tommy at gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi all,
> >> >> I was wondering if anyone knew what the most stable setup (Ubuntu
> >> >> Studio version, Jack'd version, Ardour version) would be for using
> >> >> primarily Ardour.
> >> >> I have been recording large sessions (30-40 tracks) for about 3
> months
> >> >> with Studio 10.04 and the 2.6.31-9 rt kernel and have been having
> >> >> issue's with ardour and jackd crashing what seems like randomly. I
> >> >> haven't been able to reproduce it. It doesn't matter if it is a giant
> >> >> session or a small session I will get a segmentation fault anywhere
> >> >> between 10 minutes to 4 hours. Sometimes several in a row and
> >> >> sometimes not at all for an entire 5 hour recording session. I am
> >> >> using 2 mackie onyx 1640's via onboard firewire on a Dell studio
> >> >> (desktop) with a 2.33 Ghz quad core and 6 gig's of DDR2. Also an
> >> >> Nvidia 9800 GTX. I'm just not sure where to go to fix my stability
> >> >> problems. I don't know if it is my firewire chipset or the drivers
> I'm
> >> >> using. I read somewhere that using nvidia drivers could cause the
> >> >> problems. Maybe my harddrives are to slow? I am willing to go to a
> >> >> barebones install if need be. I don't need the install to do anything
> >> >> but record in ardour and master in jammin. It just looks really bad
> >> >> when I am recording a band and I have to tell them to hold on while I
> >> >> restart ardour or the computer. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated!
> >> >> Thank you!
> >> >> Tommy
> >> >>
> >> > check your firewire chipset, and also run in a terminal
> >> > cat /proc/interrupts
> >> > and see what devices are sharing IRQ settings...
> >> > i have ubuntu 10.04 and i have started using the KXstudio ppa's with
> >> > it...
> >> > however, even before that, with your same sofware setup, and a P4 with
> a
> >> > gig
> >> > of ram, i had a very stable firewire rig using a texas instruments
> >> > chipset,
> >> > and a presonus firepod... i have a faster machine now, but still, its
> >> > running 10.04 and with any kernel, its stable... check on those couple
> >> > things, and lets go from there
> >> >>
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> >
> > you see the line ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb8, ohci1394, thats not
> ideal..
> > that means that your firewire device is shared with 2 other USB ports...
> you
> > should look in the bios and see if you can change that, and also, run
> lspci
> > and see what firewire chipset you have...
>
if i were you, i would probably just get a nice TI chipset in a pci or
express card and solve the IRQ port issue and the chipset all in one go...

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