[proaudio] Re: [proaudio] Re: [proaudio] Re: [proaudio] Re: [proaudio] Muse and Zynaddsubfx takes a long time to show the gui .

[Carlos Pino <pinojazz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On 9/29/06, Carlos Pino <pinojazz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Frieder Bürzele escribió:
> > > Carlos Pino wrote:
> > >>  Hi everyone, this is my first post here after installing  gentoo and
> > >> the pro-audio overlay.
> > >> I'm trying to learn as much as I can about this great system.
> > >>
> > >>  Everything was working fine with 2.6.17-rt8 .Yesterday I did some
> > >> updates and today I give a try to the new 2.6.18-rt3. After the
> > >> compilation I went to check it and muse  starts  but can't see the
> > >> gui. Back to 2.6.17-rt8 and the issue continues  . It appears at the
> > >> qjackctl's Connect tab but nothing appears at the wm.
>
> Hi Carlos,
Hi Mark,thank you very much for your response.
>   Sorry to hear of your continued problems. I don't know exactly how
> I can help but I've been running Gentoo audio machines for 3-4 years
> now so maybe at least we can get lucky together.
  I hope so :-) .
>   First, I've had problems with 2.6.18-rtX on my AMD64 machine.
> Others on the LKML are having troubles also. I would strongly suggest
> that for now you stick with 2.6.17-rtX. I personally run 2.6.17-rt5.
> rt8 is probably fine. Please ensure your /usr/src/linux link is
> pointing at the correct kernel since it can mess up certain emerges if
> it is not:
>
> lightning ~ # ls -al /usr/src/linux
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Sep 25 17:51 /usr/src/linux ->
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.17-rt5
> lightning ~ #
Done.
>   In my experience with problems like you are having I've been burned
> by two things - the video driver and networking.
>
> 1) What video driver are you running? Open Source or one of the binary
> drivers from NVidia or ATI?
I'm using the radeon free   with an Atu Radeon X550 pci-express.
Here is the lspci -v output

05:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 secondary 
[Sapphire X550 Silent]
       Subsystem: Info-Tek Corp. Unknown device 1133
       Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
       Memory at f1010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
       Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
       Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint IRQ 0


> 2) Can you double check your /etc/resolve file. I've seen Gnome delay
> (not by 5 minutes though - more like 30-45 seconds) the display of
> certain programs when it cannot find a name server. Make sure that
> your nameserver is really valid and operating quickly.
>
> lightning ~ # cat /etc/resolv.conf
> nameserver 192.168.1.1
> domain homenetwork
> lightning ~ #
carlos@audio ~ $ cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Generated by dhcpcd for interface eth0
nameserver 80.58.0.33
nameserver 80.58.32.97

Has been working fine till now,and before the issue.
> 3) Let's look at the emerge consistency. Log in as root, if you aren't
> already, and do the following:
>
> a) cd /root
> b) rm -rf .revdep-rebuild.*
> c) revdep-rebuild -p
audio ~ # revdep-rebuild -p
Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild

Checking reverse dependencies...

Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package update
will be emerged.

Collecting system binaries and libraries... done.
 (/root/.revdep-rebuild.1_files)

Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH... done.
 (/root/.revdep-rebuild.2_ldpath)

Checking dynamic linking consistency...
done.
 (/root/.revdep-rebuild.3_rebuild)

Assigning files to ebuilds... Nothing to rebuild

Evaluating package order... done.
 (/root/.revdep-rebuild.5_order)

Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done.

> and let's see what linking problems might be lurking around.
>
> 4) Post back the output of emerge --info and we can look at flag 
> settings, etc.
audio ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, 
glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-rt8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-rt8 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5
Last Sync: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 15:00:01 +0000
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.2.11-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild 
/etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch 
sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org 
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo";
LANG="es_ES@euro"
LC_ALL="es_ES@euro"
LINGUAS="es es_ES"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times 
--compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats 
--timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' 
--exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/portage/local/layman/pro-audio"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X alsa berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdr cli crypt cups dbus 
dlloader dri dvd dvdr eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd fam firefox 
fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk hal input_devices_keyboard 
input_devices_mouse isdnlog jack jpeg kernel_linux ladspa lash ldap 
libg++ linguas_es linguas_es_ES mad mikmod mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl 
nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 
quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype 
truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU userlocales 
video_cards_fglrx vorbis win32codecs xml xorg xv zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, 
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS


> 5) Let's see if X11 is complaining about anything:
>
> cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
audio ~ # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE
Current Operating System: Linux audio 2.6.17-rt8 #3 PREEMPT Fri Sep 1 
02:15:50 CEST 2006 i686
       (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER

> cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep WW
audio ~ # cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep W
    (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:5:0:1) found
(WW) RADEON(0): Failed to detect secondary monitor, MergedFB/Clone mode 
disabled
(WW) (1280x960,Monitor0) mode clock 148.5MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1280x1024,Monitor0) mode clock 135MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1280x1024,Monitor0) mode clock 157.5MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1600x1200,Monitor0) mode clock 162MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1600x1200,Monitor0) mode clock 175.5MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1600x1200,Monitor0) mode clock 189MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1600x1200,Monitor0) mode clock 202.5MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1600x1200,Monitor0) mode clock 229.5MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1792x1344,Monitor0) mode clock 204.8MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1792x1344,Monitor0) mode clock 261MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1856x1392,Monitor0) mode clock 218.3MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1856x1392,Monitor0) mode clock 288MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1920x1440,Monitor0) mode clock 234MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1920x1440,Monitor0) mode clock 297MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1400x1050,Monitor0) mode clock 122MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1400x1050,Monitor0) mode clock 155.8MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (1920x1440,Monitor0) mode clock 341.35MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (2048x1536,Monitor0) mode clock 266.95MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (2048x1536,Monitor0) mode clock 340.48MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) (2048x1536,Monitor0) mode clock 388.04MHz exceeds DDC maximum 110MHz
(WW) RADEON(0): Enabling DRM support

>   I expect we can get to the bottom of this if we keep poking about.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
 Thanks again for your help.

Saludos.

-- Carlos.