Dominique Michel wrote: >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7557598 2005-12-26 13:03 8mbgmsfx.sf2 > > Will be fine, the emu110k1 can use bigger soundfont, but you must first get > it to work. > >> The sound font loads onto the sound card, so isn't resident in main RAM. > > Wrong, the sound card use ram memory.
I didn't know that. > >> >> $ cat /proc/interrupts >> CPU0 >> 0: 14821358 XT-PIC timer >> 1: 15016 XT-PIC i8042 >> 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade >> 7: 1 XT-PIC parport0 >> 8: 4 XT-PIC rtc >> 10: 122818 XT-PIC ohci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb3, eth0 >> 11: 1638 XT-PIC ehci_hcd:usb4, EMU10K1 >> 12: 186965 XT-PIC ohci_hcd:usb1 >> 14: 6970023 XT-PIC ide0 >> 15: 879896 XT-PIC ide1 >> NMI: 0 >> LOC: 0 >> ERR: 0 >> MIS: 0 >> > > Here is your problem. The emu10k1 share the same IRQ as the usb, and it is > very bad. > The emu10k1 must be on its own IRQ. > You must check in the bios if you can assign the IRQ and/or > move the card in another slot. > > You can also try to use the APIC interface in the kernel, > but it will be better to get ride of this problem at the PIC level. > > You can read this if you want to know more about this: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/articles/hardware-stability-p2.xml#doc_chap2 Thanks for the link. I tried the suggestions and ended up with: $ cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 100423 XT-PIC timer 1: 121 XT-PIC i8042 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 455 XT-PIC ohci_hcd:usb2 7: 2 XT-PIC parport0 8: 4 XT-PIC rtc 10: 655 XT-PIC uhci_hcd:usb1, ohci_hcd:usb3, eth0 11: 2 XT-PIC ehci_hcd:usb4 12: 413 XT-PIC EMU10K1 14: 395118 XT-PIC ide0 15: 4406 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 but can still reproduce the lockup in single user mode by running playmidi -a somefile.mid and then running a disk intensive program like mandb at the same time. I also disabled IDE block mode in the BIOS. I'll look a few hard disk settings in the meantime. Regards... Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user