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Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Kevin Donnelly wrote:
>> You've certainly spent a lot of time writing posts instead of
>> making music.
>> 
> 
> Because I can't make music with Linux.

Obviously.

>> Random crashes are in my experience more often due to flaky
>> hardware (ie hardware that is not broken, but is about to break).
>> Even if everything works OK in Windows, that is no guarantee - 
>> Windows isn't as picky as Linux.  Use memcheck, or try a new hard
>> disk, or swap in another PSU.

> I changed my complete hardware, everything is new, only the soundcard
>  isn't new, I can check it by a Hameg oscilloscope with a components 
> tester, but I'm sure the soundcard is fine.

What sound card again?  I have been using an RME PCI for a couple of
years, and I don't plan to change.  It was an expensive card but it has
certainly been worth it.

> I'm using Rosegarden 1.7.1, because 1.7.0 isn't fine. My 64 Studio 
> default install is a default install.

Then use the downgrade mentioned earlier.  Going newer is not usually
the best choice.

>> 64Studio was put together specifically in order to avoid your
>> having to do that sort of thing.  Get the basic, default distro 
>> working solidly first, and *then* (in a few months) start
>> experimenting.
>> 
> It's the default install. We, not only I, had troubles with
> Rosegarden 1.7.0, that's why 1.7.1 is in the backport since
> yesterday. There are no troubles with dependencies and nothing
> changed to 1.7.0, problems are the same.

That happens sometimes.

>> One of the big problems with new Linux users is that they have
>> itchy fingers - just because you can upgrade from different repos
>> or compile the latest point release of something doesn't mean you
>> should.
> 
> I'm not really a full noob ;), more a semi-noob, but anyway, 64
> Studio is default.

For a lot of your posts this was not the case.  Do not lump those self
imposed problems in with the default install of 64Studio.

>> My main machine runs openSUSE, and the JAD distro worked fine on
>> that,
> 
> JAD comes with enlightenment 17 by default and enlightenment 17 isn't
>  stable. Or is there a new JAD released, not using enlightenment?

I have never used these, but I am pretty sure you are not limited to
E17.  I would be more than surprised to find out that E17 was the _only_
choice.

>> but there were intermittent problems that turned out to be a bad
>> disk.  My music machine (much lower spec) runs 64Studio, and it has
>> worked fine so far.
>> 
> By the way, some problems even must be there for you, e.g. Suse's 
> Hydrogen has a patch, so that it is in better sync than the 64 Studio
>  version is, when using Jack transport to sync Hydrogen and Ardour. I
>  don't use Jack transport, so I don't have to compile the stable svn 
> version of Hydrogen, but for some users this should be an argument to
>  compile an application instead of using the default version of 64
> Studio.
> 
This is always the case.  If you are building a new version then make a
.deb package out of it.  It will supersede your installed version.  Of
course if there are a lot of dependencies that need updating, this may
not be an option.

> I'll change the RAM, check the soundcard and PSU and look for a new
> BIOS update. But if there will be such broken hardware, I must have
> crashes, also when using non-audio applications.

RT apps are really demanding, and can often expose bugs in the BIOS or
in the drivers themselves.  I personally experienced this with my laptop.

> It might be interesting if somebody else has an ASUS M2A-VM HDMI, I 
> especially bought the ASUS, because my old mobo is an ASRock, and I 
> won't by an ASRock again.
> 
I have this board and it sucks.  It plays DVDs and and xvids for the TV,
running a vanilla install of Windows XP.  Quite simply, I gave up trying
to make it work properly.  It is the reason I now avoid AMD/ATI.  Soon I
can ditch my HP laptop from hell (nVidia chipset, AMD CPU, and two years
of pain that I will not get back).  In the face off all this, my 939
based AMD machines run flawlessly.  If buying new there can be only Intel :)

It is almost stable under windows too.  Low latency work blue screens
it, (memtest came up clean btw).

> It seems to be, that my hardware isn't broken and I'm using the
> default

Yes it is.  It is broken by design.

> install, excepted Rosegarden. I can reinstall the default version
> 1.7.0. Maybe this will help.
> 
> Thank you again :). I still frustrated, because I don't think that my
>  hardware is broken and the reinstall to 1.7.0 will be a help, but
> maybe I'm wrong.
> 
Best of luck.
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