On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Sean Corbett <seanbutnotheard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Bob van der Poel <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> A followup to my earlier post. I had no freezes for about 2 weeks. >> This week it's done it 3 times. >> >> Anyone have any ideas/suggestions? Probably easiest to just did out >> the USB->MIDI connector which always seems to work just fine. > > Is it possible for you to try a different kernel? In the past I've > had a random-freezing problem on one of my machines with several of > Ubuntu's kernels, but it goes away when I use the 64 Studio or Arch > Linux kernel. Though in my case it seemed to correlate with heavy I/O > activity (disk access, mainly). Okay -- good idea. BTW, this is a very underused machine. When the freeze happens it's just running an X display and running aplaymidi (and the "normal" background stuff). I've got 2.6.31-16-generic giving me the grief and have 14 and 15 in the same series on my computer. I could easily boot with 15 to see if that solves anything ... but, with the "only sometimes" problem it's a bit of a duck shoot. I see in my synaptic that there is also a 386 kernel ... would that be any better/worse? I'm running a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ . I think that when I installed ubuntu/karmic it picked the "generic" for me. Also see that there is a RT kernel in the repository. Anyone have comments on that choice? In the meantime, I'll reboot with 15-generic and see if that works for a day or so... Also, can I download and run the 64 Studio or Arch kernels onto my existing karmic installation? Thanks. -- **** Listen to my CD at http://www.mellowood.ca/music/cedars **** Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: bob@xxxxxxxxxxxx WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
