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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