Thanks! I will try and use the Vesa drivers first then. And yes, I agree, the source has to be found or all tries to cure the symptoms will only delay problems down the road. As usual... Gotta root it out 8). I'm on my way tot he shop right now. I;ll be there in 50 ft haha. Cheers Rainer from the first super nice warm shorts day in NJ
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > [...] > > -- > Cheers, Gene > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > "Fantasies are free." > "NO!! NO!! It's the thought police!!!!" > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- _________________________________ Rainer M. Schmidt Complex Consulting LLC [email protected] VoIP (646)-233-1002 FAX (646)-435-9216 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
