[PlanetCCRMA] GUI Issues with Dell Vostro

[Jeff Sandys]

Peter,
It is probably not the graphics hardware with the intel chipset.

fedora 14 is past end of life, you should install fedora 15 or 16 instead,
this might fix your problem.

If you are just recording you don't need really low latency.
Same for playing back MIDI files, low latency is not necessary.

However if you are playing a MIDI keyboard into a soft-synth, you
may want a latency proportional to your keyboard skills.  Same
thing for recording using effects in real time, you want the latency
in proportion with your ability to react.

For recording with Audacity or playing back MIDI files with Timidity
the standard kernel with 1024x3 (bytesxbuffers JACK setting) plays
with no xruns on my equivalent laptop and is adequate for my piano
skills using a MIDI keyboard and a Bristol synth.

-- Jeff

From: Peter Adamson
> Subject: [PlanetCCRMA] GUI Issues with Dell Vostro
>
> I have just installed FC14 with the low latency kernel on a Dell Vostro
> 1710.
>
> The GUI freezes after anywhere from 10 minutes to a few hours. This
> usually happens when a dialogue box or application window opens.
> Occasionally it happens when clicking a button.
>
> The mouse moves around the screen ok but the GUI does not respond to
> clicks or keystrokes. No way to get into a console to see what's going
> on, so a hard reboot is the only solution.
>
> It does not appear to happen with the unmodified kernel.
>
> I have tried using KDE instead of Gnome but the problem is actually worse.
>
> Questions:
> Are there any ideas about what is causing this and what might be a
> workaround?
> What information would be useful to post here? (hardware? which log
> files?...)
>
> I have tried recording with the basic kernel. Latency seems to be
> exactly the same as with the modified kernel. However midi playback is
> not as smooth (clicks at start/end of midi segments).
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
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