Dave Phillips wrote: > garry.ogle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Dave Phillips wrote: >> >> > 1) The machine does not cleanly shut down with the rt kernel. The >> system appears to go down, but the power light remains on and does not >> turn off manually (this happens with the battery in or out). Any fix for >> that ? I don't like having to switch off the power at the strip, I doubt >> that it's good for the box. >> >> i can't help with your other questions but this could a consequence of >> having the "acpi=off" and/or "noapic" set in your kernel bootloader >> config. >> >> i don't remember which one disables the auto-power-off, but this is >> definitely the observed behaviour on my box. i have to physically switch >> it off after it shuts down. >> >> i set these boot options because they help with the way IRQs are >> allocated, which in turn allows better real-time performance. >> > Hmm, so does that mean I have to live with the behavior ? its likely, but not necessarily so. I guess it depends on how your mobo assigns IRQs in the first place. For me it was a necessity: setting the above options reduced the actual number of IRQs in use and ended the "doubling up" of IRQs with my soundcard. I can live with flipping the switch : a small price for good rt performance. > > Btw, I upgraded the GNOME Control Center, it no longer replaces my > Fluxbox background. :) > > Best, > > dp Result! Fluxbox rox! all the best, G. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
