On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 18:30, 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.<- I have the same mobo and processor. I couldn't find anywhere in the Award BIOS to over clock? Where iz? And I think mine only runs at 166mhz fsb. It has 333mhz DDR RAM. R~ > > > 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 >
