On Friday 24 April 2009, Rainer Schmidt wrote:
>Thanks for the hint regarding the herring...
>I took a closer look at the reference you gave and enabled the smi
>trick for no avail... It's still pulling sever hundred thousand ticks
>o0nce in a while. Unexpected failures galore.... It's a Dell Optiplex
>glx280 and I wonder if that piece might be unusable.
>
>Is the AMD architecture less problematic? And is there a list of
>'approved' hardware. I guess I have to delve deeper into it.
>
That is asking for info not generally available. However, I can toss in that
mine is running on an old slow athlon xp1400, on a Mach Speed mobo with
disabled built in video. When the problem stuck up its hand and started
waving at me, I solved it with the kind help of the guys on IRC that night. I
was running an older nvidia video card using the nvidia driver. The card has
since expired as nvidia stuff is wont to do, and an even older, 4 megs of
memory nvidia card is in there now, running just as well. Back to the story
however:
Switching to the nv driver helped the latency quite a bit but it was too slow
for good backtrace graphics in axis. On a hunch I switched it to the vesa
driver and that solved 98% of the remaining problems and it was fast enough
for axis to draw a decent trace.
You might want to consider some experimentation along those lines.
>Oh, would one of those step asic cards solve the rtai problem as well
>for me or will that haunt me forever on that box?
I suspect the haunting will continue until the cause is found and evicted.
>Cheers and thanks for the help!
>Rainer
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