New subject: [linux-audio-user] hardware recommendations?

15 Jun 2005

Frank Barknecht:
...

  Interesting,

 I have an Abit AV8 with an Athlon 64 3700+ and I must say that it has
 been by far my most stable system in years.  I haven't had a single
 crash and I am primarily using it as an audio workstation.  I was going
 to give the board a high recommendation.  I would be interested to hear
 the specifics of your hardware. 
 Well, currently there is only a Matrox G450 in it, 512MB Samsung DDR
 (yes, I ran memtest), a cheap Realtek network card and a M-Audio
 Audiophile. Distribution in Debian stable (sarge) in 32bit mode.

Hmmm. I have had lots of similar trouble with some Matrox cards. Does your
problem go away if you use the VESA driver? (Don't know if that helps
though)

...
  My best success then came yesterday, when in my
despair I disabled the
 Xfree86 screensaver ("xset s off"). After that the machine stayed
 alive a whole night, even with the monitor off, and is also on since
 then this day. I now will try to reenable various things again to see, 
Sounds like the GFX-card...

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