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.<- > > >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 > > > > I do the same on my box, although on Fedora it is "acpi=off". I didn't notice that it affected stability, I just did it to adjust my IRQ's through the bios better. Rick B
