[linux-audio-user] CPU clock - beware - Solved for now?

Russell Hanaghan hanaghan at starband.net
Wed Jul 21 23:35:38 EDT 2004


On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 18:30, Matthew Barber wrote:
> ->I run almost the same setup, except I have a Asus A7N8X mobo with 
> the Athlon 2500 overclocked to 2100Mhz @ 200Mhz fsb  on Fedora with the 
> CCRMA 2.4.26-1.ll kernel.  The problem I always run into is that my 
> setup will not run the low latency (ll) "athlon" kernel without locking 
> up like you described. I have found that if I manually install the i686 
> kernel and ALSA from the  CCRMA rpms, it will boot just fine and is very
> stable. In other words don't use apt-get to install the kernel and ALSA 
> because it will always pick the Athlon versions. I haven't found any 
> problems using apt-get after the kernel,alsa rpm installation, although 
> when a new kernel comes out you do have to install it manually.<-

I have the same mobo and processor. I couldn't find anywhere in the
Award BIOS to over clock? Where iz? And I think mine only runs at 166mhz
fsb. It has 333mhz DDR RAM.

R~
> 
> 
> Thanks to everyone who responded.  My friend Kevin Ernste pointed me to
> one of many forum threads which talk about using "noapic nolapic" (hey,
> that's a good rhyme!) as kernel arguments for the nforce2 chipset.  Like
> this one:
> 
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&postid=1035056#post1035056
> 
> I did that early this morning (actually, I just passed nolapic so far),
> and have not had a single problem at the normal clock speed, throwing
> everything I could at it.  I had qjackctl open running alsaplayer into a
> simple jack-rack amplifier into freqtweak into a rezound record, while
> burning a CD, encoding an mp3, and playing with Celestia.  Aside from
> Celestia and the mp3 encoder being fairly slow and the cpu temp reaching
> 41C during that episode, everything seems pretty solid.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matt
> 




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