15 Dec
2008
15 Dec
'08
9:31 p.m.
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Matthias Schönborn <mbs1303(a)gmx.de> wrote:
Well, the day before yesterday I built the
fglrx-modules for linux-rt,
but now each time I try to use ardour it disconnects after a few minutes
with the message that jack disconnected ardour for not being fast
enough. Each time my whole system hangs for a few seconds, and cpu load
is reported to be "e+02", e.g. 100% in qjackctl. Now dmesg tells me:
There are reasons the rt-kernel developers tell us not to use the ATI
closed source driver. I suspect the problems you are seeing fall
pretty much squarely in that domain. The fglrx driver is not (as far
as we know) designed to be real-time safe. No one can tell you what
it's doing internally that might cause a time delay and kick out
Ardour, but it seems to be doing that.
I'm curious as to why are you interested in using this driver on a
platform running Ardour. Is this machine dual-purpose? I.e. - is audio
a part time thing and you also do gaming, etc.? If you must do gaming
I think you're better off to go with NVidia. I've got both here and
have fewer problems with NVidia, but that's just my experience.
Good luck,
Mark