[PlanetCCRMA] New install report

Sun May 4 10:19:37 PDT 2008

On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 14:15 -0400, Joseph Dell'Orfano wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. I have had some success over the weekend. I
> compiled alsa 1.0.16 and was able to get output from my new RME card
> (hooray!). I tested with aplay and all was fine. The RME problem appears
> to be fixed in 1.0.16 and so I recommend adding this to the planet. No
> hurry, though, because the 1.0.16 version of alsa was very easy to
> compile as long as you have the kernel sources downloaded.

It looks like 2.6.24.6 already has the fix. I have to test a local built
with the RME (pcmcia card + multiface II). Regretfully my build server
died and I'm away from the server room (across the Atlantic!) so the
reboot - and subsequent kernel builds - will have to wait for
tomorrow :-)

> The testing version of Jack (both jackd and jackdmp) failed.

Hmmm, works here... 

> Interestingly I was able to start jackd and jackdmp from the command
> line but then I got an error that it could not connect to jack client.
> 
> Here is output...
> 
> 12:53:27.330 Patchbay deactivated.
> 12:53:27.377 Statistics reset.
> 12:53:27.433 ALSA connection graph change.
> 12:53:27.621 ALSA connection change.
> 12:53:27.622 ALSA connection graph change.
> 12:53:42.033 Startup script...
> 12:53:42.034 artsshell -q terminate
> 12:53:42.720 Startup script terminated with exit status=256.
> 12:53:42.720 JACK is starting...
> 12:53:42.721 /usr/bin/jackd -dalsa -dhw:0 -r96000 -p1024 -n2
> 12:53:42.722 JACK was started with PID=3287.
> jackd 0.109.12
> Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others.
> jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
> This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
> JACK compiled with System V SHM support.
> loading driver ..
> SSE2 detected
> apparent rate = 96000
> creating alsa driver ...
> hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|96000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
> control device hw:0
> configuring for 96000Hz, period = 1024 frames (10.7 ms), buffer = 2
> periods
> ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 32bit little-endian
> ALSA: use 2 periods for capture
> ALSA: final selected sample format for playback: 32bit little-endian
> ALSA: use 2 periods for playback
> 12:53:44.924 Could not connect to JACK server as client. - Overall
> operation failed. - Unable to connect to server. Please check the
> messages window for more info.
> 12:53:53.095 Could not connect to JACK server as client. - Overall
> operation failed. - Unable to connect to server. Please check the
> messages window for more info.
> 12:53:57.198 JACK is stopping...
> jack main caught signal 15
> no message buffer overruns
> 12:53:57.228 JACK was stopped successfully.
> 12:53:57.228 Post-shutdown script...
> 12:53:57.229 killall jackd
> jackd: no process killed
> 12:53:57.640 Post-shutdown script terminated with exit status=256.
> 
> I am currently running version 0.109.2-0.svn1088.1.fc8.ccrma.x86_64 (not
> from the testing repo) and it works beautifully.

Interesting. I'm seeing (sometimes) weird behavior that I can't repeat
from the experimental version. I'm sort of starting to suspect a problem
with the shared memory. If you feel like it you could try installing the
experimental version and then rebooting to make sure everything is clean
before trying to start the server. 

Did you ever do a jack install from source on that machine? If you did
not set the prefix to /usr that could mean there are two versions around
and that could be the source of the confused server. 

> Finally, the RT kernel. When I boot it I get an interesting faint high
> pitched noise from the box. After some time the windows manager freezes,
> although I can still get into the console with ctrl-alt-F1. 
> 
> Here is output from syslog at time of crash...
> 
> May  4 12:41:09 Clayton acpid: client connected from 3026[0:0]
> May  4 12:41:24 Clayton restorecond: Will not restore a file with more
> than one hard link (/etc/resolv.conf) Invalid argument
> May  4 12:41:24 Clayton gdm-binary[3021]: WARNING:
> gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0
> May  4 12:41:25 Clayton acpid: client connected from 3327[0:0]
> May  4 12:41:25 Clayton kernel: mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,1000000
> old: write-back new: write-combining
> May  4 12:41:27 Clayton gconfd (jdellorf-3119): GConf server is not in
> use, shutting down.
> May  4 12:41:27 Clayton gconfd (jdellorf-3119): Exiting
> 
> I understand that there are some issues posted about the current RT
> kernel. I will await your testing kernel before I attempt patching my
> own kernel!

I'm running a new one right now but I can't build them for a release...

> I hope this helps. I will continue tweaking. I'm curious about why the
> experimental jack version doesn't work for me. I may continue to fool
> around with it and I will let you know what happens.

Yes, I don't have a good answer. Anything new if you start with "-v" for
more verbose messages?

-- Fernando