[LAU] MIDI Playback freezes

Bob van der Poel bob at mellowood.ca
Thu Dec 17 11:29:19 EST 2009


A followup to my earlier post. I had no freezes for about 2 weeks.
This week it's done it 3 times.

Anyone have any ideas/suggestions? Probably easiest to just did out
the USB->MIDI connector which always seems to work just fine.

Thanks.

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Bob van der Poel <bob at mellowood.ca> wrote:
> Oh no ... I had this problem a few years ago and thought it'd been
> fixed (forever!). But, since "upgrading" to ubuntu 9.10 I've had a few
> freezes again.
>
> I've got a 24/96 audiophile card which is sending the midi to an external synth.
>
> No Jackd, but pulseaudio is running. Stock kernel  2.6.31-14-generic.
>
> Now, when I had the problem before I solved it by NOT running the RT
> to multi-media kernel. This this that isn't the problem....
>
> When the freeze happens it kills the computer completely. I could
> probably log in via a terminal or network, but haven't tried that. The
> video does display, but the keyboard/mouse is gone. The only way out
> is to hit RESET.
>
> Ideas???? Big problem is that it happens very occasionally. Last time
> was several weeks ago. Hopefully, the next time will be a long time in
> the future!
>
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> Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA **
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