Re: Motherboard compatibility - AMD, Intel

[Fernando Gomes]

Hi

As promissed, here are some details and the current situation on my
compatibility issues with Ubuntu Studio:

My current motherboard is a MSI K9MM-V/MS-7312 (VIA K8M800 chipset, S3
Graphics Unichrome 2D/3D Graphics), the processor is AMD Athlon 64 X2
Dual Core Processor 3600+ stepping 02, as you can see on the messages
file I've put below. It works flawlessly with Win XP and worked 24/7
since I bought it with Ubuntu (7.10 through 9.10, with standard
kernel). As you recommended I installed Ubuntu 10.04 "standard" (I've
installed the x86 version, not the AMD64) and then installed the
ubuntustudio packages. If I use the standard kernel the PC works as
expected. If I try to boot using the RT kernel it sometimes hangs
during boot saying it didn't find the boot disk, and sometimes it
boots normally, but when using the GUI the mouse starts working in
"slow motion" (sometimes it works in slow motion from the beginning,
sometimes only after some minutes). Even with the mouse working in
"slow motion" the audio applications work on realtime (just tried
Hydrogen using Jack). Sometimes after a  few minutes all the gui seems
to freeze but the mouse keeps moving (but I have no feedback from
clicking applications or even trying to alt-tab between them). I'm
sending the messages file after booting with standard kernel, I don't
understand why it has no record for the rt kernel boot on it :-(
I've saw the message "HPET not enabled in BIOS. You might try
hpet=force boot option" and I've tried to force HPET as suggested, in
this case this message disappeared but the problems were similar.
Tonight I'll boot the RT kernel and try to put the dmesg output to file.
Can you point me to some diagnostic that can give any clue to the problem?
Is there any known issue with this chipset, or embedded graphics controller?

Before using this PC in my "home studio" I've used another AMD board
and processor, was a motherboard with an AMD 780G chipset with a AMD
Athlon 64 X2 4000+ processor. It worked very well with ubuntustudio
8.04, with more recent versions had similar problems to those I have
now (slow motion mouse, also some PC freezes - everything including
the mouse freezes, this don't happen with the current pc), the only
way to be able to use more recent ubuntustudio versions was to install
the standard ubuntu, to get a new kernel, to patch it with the RT
patch and to compile it, it then works almost flawlessly (only some
freezes from time to time). Someone here in the list said at that time
that it was better to use Intel platforms, so this was the reason for
my initial question, I don't want to build another PC for my "home
studio" (it will be the third) and have similar problems :-(

May  2 18:59:10 homestudio kernel: [0.00] Initializing cgroup
subsys cpuset
May  2 18:59:10 homestudio kernel: [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
May  2 18:59:10 homestudio kernel: [0.00] Linux version
2.6.32-21-generic (bui...@rothera) (gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu
4.4.3-4ubuntu5) ) #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:10:02 UTC 2010 (Ubuntu
2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2)
May  2 18:59:10 homestudio kernel: [0.00] KERNEL supported cpus:
May  2 18:59:10 homestudio kernel: [0.00]   Intel GenuineIntel
May  2 18:59:10 homestudio kernel: [0.00]   AMD AuthenticAMD
May  2 18:59:10 homestudio kernel: [0.00]   NSC Geode by NSC
May  2 18:59:10 homestudio kernel: [0.00]   Cyrix CyrixInstead
May  2 18:59:10 homestudio kernel: [0.00]   Centaur CentaurHauls
May  2 18:59:10 homestudio kernel: [0.00]   Transmeta GenuineTMx86
May  2 18:59:10 homestudio kernel: [0.00]   Transmeta TransmetaCPU
May  2 18:59:10 homestudio kernel: [0.00]   UMC UMC UMC UMC
May  2 18:59:10 homestudio kernel: [0.00] BIOS-provided
physical RAM map:
May  2 18:59:10 homestudio kernel: [0.00]  BIOS-e820:
 - 0009f400 (usable)
May  2 18:59:10 homestudio kernel: [0.00]  BIOS-e820:
0009f400 - 000a (reserved)
May  2 18:59:10 homestudio kernel: [0.00]  BIOS-e820:
000f - 0010 (reserved)
May  2 18:59:10 homestudio kernel: [0.00]  BIOS-e820:
0010 - 7bef (usable)
May  2 18:59:10 homestudio kernel: [0.00]  BIOS-e820:
7bef - 7bef3000 (ACPI NVS)
May  2 18:59:10 homestudio kernel: [0.00]  BIOS-e820:
7bef3000 - 7bf0 (ACPI data)
May  2 18:59:10 homestudio kernel: [0.00]  BIOS-e820:
fec0 - 0001 (reserved)
May  2 18:59:10 homestudio kernel: [0.00] DMI 2.3 present.
May  2 18:59:10 homestudio kernel: [0.00] Phoenix BIOS
detected: BIOS may corrupt low RAM, working around it.
May  2 18:59:10 homestudio kernel: [0.00] last_pfn = 0x7bef0
max_arch_pfn = 0x10
May  2 18:59:10 homestudio kernel: [0.00] x86 PAT enabled: cpu
0, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106
May  2 1

lib error

[steven Na]

hello

im curently using ubuntu studio 10.4 but i get random crashes when
player joins on srcds ( source dedicated server )
2.6.32-22-preempt #33-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 28 15:41:26 UTC 2010
x86_64 GNU/Linux

the output error is of srcds:

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error.

warning: the debug information found in "/lib/ld-2.11.1.so" does not
match "/lib/ld-linux.so.2" (CRC mismatch).

email debug.log to li...@valvesoftware.com
Sun May 16 14:10:09 CEST 2010: Server restart in 10 seconds

Updating server using Steam.

al the glib packages should be installed cos i did apt-get install
build-essential


been looking on google but cant realy find a sollution ...

grts steven

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Re: video stutter

[bart deruyter]

Thanks for the responses.
(I first accidentally answered with this to one individual accidentally, so
I guess it didn't get on the ubuntu-studio-users list, now it's solved (so
far it is at least) I repost a modified version :-) )

I have this problem with proprietary and open formats. Flash version is
10.0.45.2. Like many, I have discovered this has the 'buttons are not
accessible with mouse' bug when compiz is running, certainly on youtube.

After some testing, and looking around, I found the problem, it was linked
with the nvidia driver. For some mysterious reason, I think it must have
been because of an update, it used the 173 version, not the 'Current
Version' (has no number). I changed to 'Current Version', and the problems
are solved.

As a side note, I started testing my wacom ( intous 3) and the buttons don't
work anymore, while they did out of the box in US 9.10, so that's something
else to work on in the future. I only discovered it now, so it means I don't
really use these button very often, but any how, improvement, is
improvement, it should work. I'm just learning programming and am thinking
about working out a GUI for the wacom settings, but I can't promise anything
at the moment (got to have time for it).

system :
4GB ram
intel core2 CPU 6700 @2.66GHz,
video card : nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7600 GS]
audio : intel corporation 82801H

grtz,
Bart
http://www.bartart3d.be/


2010/5/13 bart deruyter 

> Hi all,
>
> Running ubuntustudio 10.04 I seem to have a lot of trouble with the
> playback of video. At first I thought it was a slow internet connection when
> playing flash video online, but it happens on local video, all types of
> video, from mp4 to mpg2, flv, mkv...
>
> Mostly trouble starts after pauzing for a while. I had this problem before
> when playing from a DVD because the content has to be read from the disk,
> that's normal I guess, but now it always happens when playing files on the
> harddrive too.
>
> For online video it is really a problem, because on short video's I even
> can't see any motion anymore. Playback of audio is not stuttering though.
>
> I have found a bug in the ubuntu bugtracker that could be compared with
> what I experience, but there seems to be only one other person affected by
> this : 
> #572580. 
> The difference is that my audio does not have difficulties. Perhaps I
> should file a new bug for this.
>
> Is there anyone who has a similar problem, or even a solution for it?
>
> grtz,
> Bart
> http://www.bartart3d.be/
>
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