7 Mar
2006
7 Mar
'06
10:20 p.m.
This may sound ridiculously trivial suggestion, but have you tried running
hdspmixer and making sure that the channels are not muted and that their
levels are up?
Also, when using Pd with hdsp, try running it via jackd. I found that this
combination required less low-level setup (if we do not take into account
installing realtime module).
Best wishes,
Ico
-----Original Message-----
From: linux-audio-user-bounces(a)music.columbia.edu [mailto:linux-audio-
user-bounces(a)music.columbia.edu] On Behalf Of we are
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 8:52 PM
To: linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu
Subject: [linux-audio-user] hdsp pcmcia issues, again...
hi crew, this issue is probably getting boring now but i've hit it.
i am trying to get my Multiface PCMCIA card to work under linux and
have tried many things but still a bit lost. i have it running on my
windows setup on the same computer(another partition) without a hitch.
for this reason i can't understnd why it would not function here in
linux.
i am running an Asus v6800v (v6v) laptop and would really appriciate
some advice on where to move next...
i have reached the point where alsa is set up
.....
localhost tom # cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [DSP ]: H-DSP - Hammerfall DSP
RME Hammerfall DSP + Multiface at 0x54000000, irq 17
1 [ICH6 ]: ICH4 - Intel ICH6
Intel ICH6 with ALC650F at 0xdffff800, irq 17
.....
lspci | grep CardBus; lspci | grep RME
03:01.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b3)
04:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: Xilinx Corporation RME Hammerfall
DSP (rev 32)
.....
uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jan 17 05:35:27
EST 2006 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz GenuineIntel
GNU/Linux
.....
i have tried using setpci latency scripts found on this thread http :
lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-pcmcia/2004-April/000750.html
However, i must admit i'm a really lost when it comes to this level of
computing. so i'm stabbing in the dark and currently trying to learn
about what all this means.
script written by Daniel Ritz
#!/bin/sh
# set lateny timers for the bridges
CB=`lspci | grep CardBus | cut -d" "
-f1`
for i in $CB; do
echo "setting latency timer for CB $i"
setpci -s $i 0x0d.b=0xff > /dev/null
setpci -s $i 0x1b.b=0xff > /dev/null
# for EnE only, others should ignore it
setpci -s $i 0xc9.b=0x06 > /dev/null
done
this script did something but i'm not entirely sure what? pd seems to
detect audio input but can't output,(anyone know if i need to compile
pd with rme support to make it work.)
after doing this i can get sound but its all distortorted and
horrible. it feels like on the right track here but i don't understand
the jargon or where to go next with it?
......
no problems loading hdsploader firmware
......
localhost tom # hdsploader
hdsploader - firmware loader for RME Hammerfall DSP cards
Looking for HDSP + Multiface or Digiface cards :
Card 0 : RME Hammerfall DSP at 0x54000000, irq 17
Upload firmware for card hw:0
Firmware uploaded for card hw:0
Card 1 : Intel ICH6 with ALC650F at 0xdffff800, irq 17
......
when trying to access change settings on hdspconf
......
tom@localhost ~ $ hdspconf
HDSPConf 1.4 - Copyright (C) 2003 Thomas Charbonnel <thomas(a)undata.org>
This program comes WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
HDSPConf is free software, see the file copying for details
Looking for HDSP cards :
Card 0 : RME Hammerfall DSP + Multiface at 0x54000000, irq 17
Multiface found !
Card 1 : Intel ICH6 with ALC650F at 0xdffff800, irq 17
1 Hammerfall DSP card found.
Error accessing ctl interface on card hw:0
.....
i have read that some people have had problems when modules are set on
the same IRQ.
i have no idea if this is a problem as my RME cardbus, wireless
(ipw2200), onboard sound (AC97) and Yenta are all on IRQ 17. this is
the same in windows and my bios is pretty limiting when it comes to
changing this stuff around.
/proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 700336 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 6148 IO-APIC-edge i8042
9: 2885 IO-APIC-level acpi
12: 2177 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 4815 IO-APIC-edge ide0
16: 2 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb5, ohci1394
17: 97673 IO-APIC-level yenta, hdsp, Intel ICH6, ipw2200
19: 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb4, skge
20: 92955 IO-APIC-level ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2
21: 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb3
NMI: 0
LOC: 50568
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
.....
Any suggetions links greatly appriciated!
thanks
tom.
also....
have already tried pci=noacpi and acpi=off and there was no difference
to the setups, irq and the like.
bit worried about upgrading my bios as the new asus bios for the v6 is
apparently noisy and has fan issues..... no good for my studio... 
7 Mar
7 Mar
10:27 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] hdsp pcmcia issues, again...
cool thanks for the speedy reply ico.
i'm pretty sure i have the levels up(although i am not near my
computer right now) however i don't doubt that is a posibility.
i have my system setup up for audio with realtime module set up. and i
have been running everything trough jack and for testing.
although i can not get anything out of pd, i have used ardour and am
getting nothing but distortion..
it seems like a very similar problem that caused a huge thread here
last year. alsa, i am still lost.
cheers
tom
On 3/8/06, ico <ico(a)vt.edu> wrote:
This may sound ridiculously trivial suggestion, but
have you tried running
hdspmixer and making sure that the channels are not muted and that their
levels are up?
Also, when using Pd with hdsp, try running it via jackd. I found that this
combination required less low-level setup (if we do not take into account
installing realtime module).
Best wishes,
Ico
-----Original Message-----
From: linux-audio-user-bounces(a)music.columbia.edu [mailto:linux-audio-
user-bounces(a)music.columbia.edu] On Behalf Of we are
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 8:52 PM
To: linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu
Subject: [linux-audio-user] hdsp pcmcia issues, again...
hi crew, this issue is probably getting boring now but i've hit it.
i am trying to get my Multiface PCMCIA card to work under linux and
have tried many things but still a bit lost. i have it running on my
windows setup on the same computer(another partition) without a hitch.
for this reason i can't understnd why it would not function here in
linux.
i am running an Asus v6800v (v6v) laptop and would really appriciate
some advice on where to move next...
i have reached the point where alsa is set up
.....
localhost tom # cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [DSP ]: H-DSP - Hammerfall DSP
RME Hammerfall DSP + Multiface at 0x54000000, irq 17
1 [ICH6 ]: ICH4 - Intel ICH6
Intel ICH6 with ALC650F at 0xdffff800, irq 17
.....
lspci | grep CardBus; lspci | grep RME
03:01.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b3)
04:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: Xilinx Corporation RME Hammerfall
DSP (rev 32)
.....
uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jan 17 05:35:27
EST 2006 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz GenuineIntel
GNU/Linux
.....
i have tried using setpci latency scripts found on this thread http :
lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-pcmcia/2004-April/000750.html
However, i must admit i'm a really lost when it comes to this level of
computing. so i'm stabbing in the dark and currently trying to learn
about what all this means.
script written by Daniel Ritz
#!/bin/sh
# set lateny timers for the bridges
CB=`lspci | grep CardBus | cut -d" "
-f1`
for i in $CB; do
echo "setting latency timer for CB $i"
setpci -s $i 0x0d.b=0xff > /dev/null
setpci -s $i 0x1b.b=0xff > /dev/null
# for EnE only, others should ignore it
setpci -s $i 0xc9.b=0x06 > /dev/null
done
this script did something but i'm not entirely sure what? pd seems to
detect audio input but can't output,(anyone know if i need to compile
pd with rme support to make it work.)
after doing this i can get sound but its all distortorted and
horrible. it feels like on the right track here but i don't understand
the jargon or where to go next with it?
......
no problems loading hdsploader firmware
......
localhost tom # hdsploader
hdsploader - firmware loader for RME Hammerfall DSP cards
Looking for HDSP + Multiface or Digiface cards :
Card 0 : RME Hammerfall DSP at 0x54000000, irq 17
Upload firmware for card hw:0
Firmware uploaded for card hw:0
Card 1 : Intel ICH6 with ALC650F at 0xdffff800, irq 17
......
when trying to access change settings on hdspconf
......
tom@localhost ~ $ hdspconf
HDSPConf 1.4 - Copyright (C) 2003 Thomas Charbonnel <thomas(a)undata.org>
This program comes WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
HDSPConf is free software, see the file copying for details
Looking for HDSP cards :
Card 0 : RME Hammerfall DSP + Multiface at 0x54000000, irq 17
Multiface found !
Card 1 : Intel ICH6 with ALC650F at 0xdffff800, irq 17
1 Hammerfall DSP card found.
Error accessing ctl interface on card hw:0
.....
i have read that some people have had problems when modules are set on
the same IRQ.
i have no idea if this is a problem as my RME cardbus, wireless
(ipw2200), onboard sound (AC97) and Yenta are all on IRQ 17. this is
the same in windows and my bios is pretty limiting when it comes to
changing this stuff around.
/proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 700336 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 6148 IO-APIC-edge i8042
9: 2885 IO-APIC-level acpi
12: 2177 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 4815 IO-APIC-edge ide0
16: 2 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb5, ohci1394
17: 97673 IO-APIC-level yenta, hdsp, Intel ICH6, ipw2200
19: 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb4, skge
20: 92955 IO-APIC-level ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2
21: 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb3
NMI: 0
LOC: 50568
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
.....
Any suggetions links greatly appriciated!
thanks
tom.
also....
have already tried pci=noacpi and acpi=off and there was no difference
to the setups, irq and the like.
bit worried about upgrading my bios as the new asus bios for the v6 is
apparently noisy and has fan issues..... no good for my studio... 
10:32 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] hdsp pcmcia issues, again...
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 13:27 +1100, we are wrote:
cool thanks for the speedy reply ico.
i'm pretty sure i have the levels up(although i am not near my
computer right now) however i don't doubt that is a posibility.
just run hdspmixer to make sure. its a simple step, and the most common
error. without it, there is no sound.
although i can not get anything out of pd, i have used
ardour and am
getting nothing but distortion..
oh, so you can hear something?
it seems like a very similar problem that caused a
huge thread here
last year. alsa, i am still lost.
which thread? link? the one involving ico and his detection of the
register that windows set in the cardbus bridge but linux did not?
--p
10:41 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] hdsp pcmcia issues, again...
which thread? link? the one involving ico and his
detection of the
register that windows set in the cardbus bridge but linux did not?
yeah that sounds right,
i investigated the differences between the WPCREDIT output of the
cardbus bridge and the hdsp PCMCIA card and linux's hexdump, and they
are slightly different. i suspect this is a problem bu i do not
understand how to go about changing the settings to get what i want,
setpci etc....
i have a screen shot of the comparisons but no way to post them at the moment.
is there someone who could show me away to get these hexdumps/WPCREDIT
output looking (and/or) functioning the same? or is this not the
problem....
cheers
tom
10:44 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] hdsp pcmcia issues, again...
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 13:41 +1100, we are wrote:
is there someone who could show me away to get these
hexdumps/WPCREDIT
output looking (and/or) functioning the same? or is this not the
problem....
This is almost certainly not the problem.
10:47 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] hdsp pcmcia issues, again...
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 21:44 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 13:41 +1100, we are wrote:
actually lee, it stands a pretty reasonable chance of being the problem.
it bit ico and me quite hard, although to be fair, it appeared to be
fixed (at least for my cardbus bridge) in the mid-stream 2.6 kernel
series.
however, i think dwayne holsbeck raises some other good issues too.
--p
is there someone who could show me away to get
these hexdumps/WPCREDIT
output looking (and/or) functioning the same? or is this not the
problem....
This is almost certainly not the problem.
9 Mar
9 Mar
1:13 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] hdsp pcmcia issues, again...
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 21:50 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 21:44 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
Can you guys look at this bug:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5736
Could it be the same issue? Maybe you could try to narrow it down, the
bug report mentions a single commit that they think could be the cause.
Lee
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 13:41 +1100, we are wrote:
actually lee, it stands a pretty reasonable chance of being the problem.
it bit ico and me quite hard, although to be fair, it appeared to be
fixed (at least for my cardbus bridge) in the mid-stream 2.6 kernel
series.
however, i think dwayne holsbeck raises some other good issues too.
is there someone who could show me away to get
these hexdumps/WPCREDIT
output looking (and/or) functioning the same? or is this not the
problem....
This is almost certainly not the problem. 
1:21 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Hardware Recommendations
I am having hardware problems and rather than swap pieces to find the bad
hardware, I was thinking of an upgrade. I have a delta 1010 that I want to
keep and the hard drive is fine. Does anyone have any recommendations of a
motherboard / processor combination that they like? I am looking for a
audio / video editing friendly combination in linux.
Thanks,
E
2:52 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: Hardware Recommendations
On 3/9/06, E <espame(a)comcast.net> wrote:
I am having hardware problems and rather than swap
pieces to find the bad
hardware, I was thinking of an upgrade. I have a delta 1010 that I want to
keep and the hard drive is fine. Does anyone have any recommendations of a
motherboard / processor combination that they like? I am looking for a
audio / video editing friendly combination in linux.
Thanks,
E
amd64 seems like a good chip, but avoid ATI motherboard chipsets.
Evil. EVIL. bad. bad.
Loki
3:03 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: Hardware Recommendations
Le 09 Mar à 17:52, Loki Davison ecrivait:
> Does anyone have any recommendations of a
> motherboard / processor combination that they like?
amd64 seems like a good chip,
In true 64 bits mode or running a 32 bits OS ?
Y.
3:53 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: Hardware Recommendations
On 3/9/06, Yves Potin <yves_p(a)nnx.com> wrote:
Le 09 Mar à 17:52, Loki Davison ecrivait:
I'm running in 64 bit mode. I'm not sure it's a good idea though. If
you have huge amount of ram it's okay. Otherwise i think 32 might be
better. I haven't compared both though.
ATI chipsets are crap in any mode. ;-)
Loki
> Does anyone have any recommendations of a
> motherboard / processor combination that they like?
amd64 seems like a good chip,
In true 64 bits mode or running a 32 bits OS ?
Y.
7:05 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: Hardware Recommendations
Wolfgang Woehl wrote:
Some of the boards have been having a double tick problem where the
kernel ticks twice as fast. This was a kernel ACPI problem, not an ATI
chipset one:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=comm…
Also, some of the boards seem to have crappy ACPI implementations. A lot
of the older RS480 boards and earlier seem to be affected. I've recently
had a chance to play with three separate "current" generation ATI boards
(RD480 chipset - Asus A8R-MVP + MSI RD480 Neo2, and RD580 chipsets -
Asus A8R32-MVP) and all seem to work very well with linux when you take
a few things into consideration:
1) You need a really recent kernel (2.6.16'ish). It'll have the fixed
timer support, and the onboard Marvell NICs will actually work (recent
fixes to the skge NIC, and inclusion of the sky2 module make things work).
2) Almost no distro includes the required kernel to get the board to
work nicely. Expect a serious PITA when installing your distro. It's
almost easier to install the distro on an older supported board,
recompile a new 2.6.16 kernel for use with the board, replace the board,
and boot the new kernel.
If you pay attention to the above, you'll most likely have a really
nicely running system.
On the other hand, if you get an nvidia based board, almost everything
should be supported out-of-the-box with current generation distros.
later,
Steve
ATI chipsets
are crap in any mode. ;-)
Crap in what way? 
7:37 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: Hardware Recommendations
On Thu Mar 09, 2006 at 03:05:35PM -0800, Stephen Hassard wrote:
Wolfgang Woehl wrote:
>>ATI chipsets are crap in any mode. ;-)
>Crap in what way?
1) You need a really recent kernel (2.6.16'ish).
It'll have the fixed
timer support,
i think i still have to boot with -noapic on Linux a 2.6.16-rc4-git10 to avoid weird
timer issues, random 'spurius interrupt - nobody cared' crap in dmesg and timer
running about twice as fast
2) Almost no distro includes the required kernel to
get the board to
work nicely. Expect a serious PITA when installing your distro. It's
the interrupts are so screwd that knoppix freezed every 2 seconds, for about 2 seconds,
mouse and all. really was a hassle to get it setup with such interruptions to input and
processing and networking. but it did eventually finish
now the biggest problem by far is ATIs horrible video drivers. they barely work in 2d:
distortion artifacts when the cursor nears the screen edge etc. unfortunately you need the
fglrx binary/taint/driver-from-hell to have a working VGA port or openGL, at least for me
with 8.22.2.whatever and a mobility X300 or R200 or something
i wuld have definitely gotten an Nvidia chipset if i they had a small-form-factor Turion
platform on the market. but all in all it works fine now, aside from video quirks (lots of
apps will crash with 'bad_pixmap' type stuff, i cant use superkaramba, or anything
that uses COMPOSITE for example, and forget about XGL/AIGLX)
9:30 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: Hardware Recommendations
On Thu, March 9, 2006 15:37, cdr wrote:
1) You need a really recent
kernel (2.6.16'ish). It'll have the fixed
timer support, i think i still have to boot with -noapic on Linux a
2.6.16-rc4-git10
to avoid weird timer issues, random 'spurius interrupt - nobody cared'
crap in dmesg and timer running about twice as fast
The patch that I linked to went into 2.6.16-rc5-bk12 (yesterday's), so
yeah, that's probably too old. ;)
Even with this, one of the boards I have (RS482) is reporting periodic
APIC errors, though this doesn't seem to affect the machine's stability.
Knoppix's kernel is probably much too old. You might want to try one of
the livecd's from ubuntu's beta release and see how things work.
ATI chipsets
are crap in any mode. ;-)
Crap in what way? 2) Almost no
distro includes the required kernel to get the board to
work nicely. Expect a serious PITA when installing your distro. It's
the
interrupts are so screwd that knoppix freezed every 2 seconds, for
about 2 seconds, mouse and all. really was a hassle to get it setup with
such interruptions to input and processing and networking. but it did
eventually finish now the biggest problem by far is ATIs horrible video
drivers. they
barely work in 2d: distortion artifacts when the cursor nears the screen
edge etc. unfortunately you need the fglrx binary/taint/driver-from-hell
to have a working VGA port or openGL, at least for me with
8.22.2.whatever and a mobility X300 or R200 or something
The X300 is now supported by the open source 'radeon' driver:
http://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R7.0/doc/html/radeon.4.html
You'll need xorg 6.9 or 7.0 though, and you'll only get 2D support.
Fortunately, it looks like basic 3d support is being worked on for the
X?00 seriers cards. I've had some good luck with "regular" 2d support and
my ATI X800XL, and the chipset built-in RS48x with this driver.
i wuld have definitely gotten an Nvidia chipset if i
they had a
small-form-factor Turion platform on the market. but all in all it works
fine now, aside from video quirks (lots of apps will crash with
'bad_pixmap' type stuff, i cant use superkaramba, or anything that uses
COMPOSITE for example, and forget about XGL/AIGLX)
AMD's new dual-core turion line (supporting DDR2) is being launched soon.
I'm pretty sure you'll see nvidia nforce 61x0 style laptops with it, since
AMD has been seen demoing turion kits with "similar" configurations. It's
always hard to tell what you'll see on the market when things finally come
to light..
later,
Steve
10:21 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: Hardware Recommendations
On 3/10/06, Stephen Hassard <steve(a)hassard.net> wrote:
On Thu, March 9, 2006 15:37, cdr wrote:
i think i still have to boot with -noapic on Linux a
2.6.16-rc4-git10
to avoid weird timer issues, random 'spurius interrupt - nobody cared'
crap in dmesg and timer running about twice as fast
The patch that I linked to went into 2.6.16-rc5-bk12 (yesterday's), so
yeah, that's probably too old. ;)
Even with this, one of the boards I have (RS482) is reporting periodic
APIC errors, though this doesn't seem to affect the machine's stability.
I get message like APIC error on CPU0: 00(40) sometimes in the log.
Mandriva 2006 x86_64 installs fine on this machine, no boot params
required or anything. However stability seems terrible. It totally
locks up quite often. Memtest says ram is fine. I've heard this occurs
with this board on windows/etc too. Not sure if it's just MSI's RS480
that is this bad or others as well. I currently don't use the nearly
totally useless onboard graphic card at all. No dvi output, bad
drivers and no 3d performance make it a much worse choice than a cheap
nvidia card. Also temp/fan monitoring is a no go. All round, i'm
certainly never touching anything made by them again, both ATI and
MSI, though i'm not sure who's fault it is.
Loki
> ATI chipsets are crap in any mode. ;-)
Crap in what way?
1) You need a really recent kernel (2.6.16'ish). It'll
have the fixed
timer support,
10:42 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: Hardware Recommendations
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 13:21 +1100, Loki Davison wrote:
I get message like APIC error on CPU0: 00(40)
sometimes in the log.
Mandriva 2006 x86_64 installs fine on this machine, no boot params
required or anything. However stability seems terrible. It totally
locks up quite often. Memtest says ram is fine. I've heard this occurs
with this board on windows/etc too. Not sure if it's just MSI's RS480
that is this bad or others as well. I currently don't use the nearly
totally useless onboard graphic card at all. No dvi output, bad
drivers and no 3d performance make it a much worse choice than a cheap
nvidia card. Also temp/fan monitoring is a no go. All round, i'm
certainly never touching anything made by them again, both ATI and
MSI, though i'm not sure who's fault it is.
I suspect the 32 bit drivers would be more stable than the 64 bit ones.
I hope you guys are posting these in the kernel bugzilla or something.
Search for your board in there, there are many bugs with patches that
just need a tester. ACPI is such a pain in the ass and there are so
many varieties of new hardware that bugzilla is the only reasonable way
to track it.
Really the problem is that vendors these days don't take the time to
verify that their hardware is correct, they just ship it as soon as it
seems to boot and run Windows. So the line between a hardware bug and a
kernel bug gets blurry...
Lee
10 Mar
10 Mar
1:20 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: Hardware Recommendations
On 3/10/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell(a)joe-job.com> wrote:
On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 13:21 +1100, Loki Davison
wrote:
I haven't looked into it to much because i've heard the board is bad
with any OS. I.e just not a good board ;-) I'm planning on getting rid
of it when i get a job (hopefully soon).
Loki
I get message like APIC error on CPU0: 00(40)
sometimes in the log.
Mandriva 2006 x86_64 installs fine on this machine, no boot params
required or anything. However stability seems terrible. It totally
locks up quite often. Memtest says ram is fine. I've heard this occurs
with this board on windows/etc too. Not sure if it's just MSI's RS480
that is this bad or others as well. I currently don't use the nearly
totally useless onboard graphic card at all. No dvi output, bad
drivers and no 3d performance make it a much worse choice than a cheap
nvidia card. Also temp/fan monitoring is a no go. All round, i'm
certainly never touching anything made by them again, both ATI and
MSI, though i'm not sure who's fault it is.
I suspect the 32 bit drivers would be more stable than the 64 bit ones.
I hope you guys are posting these in the kernel bugzilla or something.
Search for your board in there, there are many bugs with patches that
just need a tester. ACPI is such a pain in the ass and there are so
many varieties of new hardware that bugzilla is the only reasonable way
to track it.
Really the problem is that vendors these days don't take the time to
verify that their hardware is correct, they just ship it as soon as it
seems to boot and run Windows. So the line between a hardware bug and a
kernel bug gets blurry...
Lee
9 Mar
9 Mar
11:25 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: Hardware Recommendations
required or anything. However stability seems
terrible. It totally
locks up quite often. Memtest says ram is fine. I've heard this occurs
with this board on windows/etc too. Not sure if it's just MSI's RS480
im running a MSI RS480-based notebook, which is really unstable at 400mhz RAM speed. the
issues went away when downclocking to 333.. whether this is MSI or ATIs fault, i dont
realy know or care.. im quite happy with the MSI otherwise, they and ASUS are the only two
companies serious about barebones notebooks, great way to not have a 256 MB module and
20mb 4200RPM hd sitting in your junkpile and bypass the 'Obligatory Windows Tax
(sm)'
Also temp/fan monitoring is a no go.
that works here, at least temp shows up in the ACPI thermal zone. but i guess if you had
to disable ACPI features due to bugs, you might not get that..
i love how flashable firmwware enabled 'ship now, fix later', even for hardware
:/
10 Mar
10 Mar
12:48 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Anybody compiled Free V-Amp?
Has anybody successfully compiled Free V-Amp?
http://www.nongnu.org/freevamp/
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Nevermind. I installed gnome-core-devel and it
compiled fine.
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Has anybody successfully compiled Free V-Amp?
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5:56 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] Re: Hardware Recommendations
"Loki Davison" <loki.davison(a)gmail.com>om>:
On 3/10/06, Stephen Hassard <steve(a)hassard.net>
wrote:
> On Thu, March 9, 2006 15:37, cdr wrote:
Stephen, cdr, Loki, thanks. So there's some backup to the
claim. Amazing how people dig into this.
Whenever I want to upgrade I go downtown. My dealer shifts
100's of units every day and I reckon they'd rather not deal
with dozens of people coming back complaining. Been lucky so
far (last I got from them was ASUS A7V8X-X).
--
Wolfgang
1:31 a.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] hdsp pcmcia issues, again...
thanks for your interest Lee.
at this stage i am keen for any suggestions possible. i'm not quite
sure just yet how to see if this bug is related to me. if there is a
way to check i would be very interested to know. i will look into over
the next couple of days.
but all that aside, i have sent out an SOS to as many parties as
possible and waiting on replies. still stuck, and as of a result,
resulting to windows..... yuk!
cheers
tom
On 3/9/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell(a)joe-job.com> wrote:
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 21:50 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 21:44 -0500, Lee Revell
wrote:
Can you guys look at this bug:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5736
Could it be the same issue? Maybe you could try to narrow it down, the
bug report mentions a single commit that they think could be the cause.
Lee
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 13:41 +1100, we are wrote:
actually lee, it stands a pretty reasonable chance of being the problem.
it bit ico and me quite hard, although to be fair, it appeared to be
fixed (at least for my cardbus bridge) in the mid-stream 2.6 kernel
series.
however, i think dwayne holsbeck raises some other good issues too.
is there someone who could show me away to get
these hexdumps/WPCREDIT
output looking (and/or) functioning the same? or is this not the
problem....
This is almost certainly not the problem. 
7 Mar
7 Mar
10:50 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] hdsp pcmcia issues, again...
I was just talking about you ;-)
It almost sounds like the problem I had with the firmware.
But you are the expert. That reminds me I should send you more money ;-)
Ive actually been getting paid to do mobile recordings. It aint much
yet, but it could build into something soon.
Cheers
DuWayne
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 21:35 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 13:27 +1100, we are wrote:
cool thanks for the speedy reply ico.
i'm pretty sure i have the levels up(although i am not near my
computer right now) however i don't doubt that is a posibility.
just run hdspmixer to make sure. its a simple step, and the most common
error. without it, there is no sound.
although i can not get anything out of pd, i have
used ardour and am
getting nothing but distortion..
oh, so you can hear something?
it seems like a very similar problem that caused
a huge thread here
last year. alsa, i am still lost.
which thread? link? the one involving ico and his detection of the
register that windows set in the cardbus bridge but linux did not?
--p
10:31 p.m.
New subject: [linux-audio-user] hdsp pcmcia issues, again...
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 21:20 -0500, ico wrote:
Also, when using Pd with hdsp, try running it via jackd. I found that
this
combination required less low-level setup (if we do not take into
account
installing realtime module).
<plug>
Installing realtime module is no longer needed with a modern distro like
Ubuntu Dapper
</plug>
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