<html><head></head><body style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br><blockquote type="cite">for sure the delta card is going to be nice.. i think it works quite <br>well in linux, no?<br><br><br>Yes, it used to work flawlessly on a fedora system...<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">So I got me a Nvidea card, alas a PCI one, not a PCIE one.</blockquote><br>In case you haven't already: You should go ahead and install the <br>NVIDEA drivers for Ubuntu on x86, I suggest. You don't want to hack a <br>3D driver do you, really? No? You don't need source then. So just <br>bite it and install the proprietary driver.<br><br><br>I did. Well, it says so on the 'harware drivers' app.<br>I got the recommended one.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">And when I record something, it all sounds distorted.</blockquote><br>IRQ/Realtime stuff happening, and also maybe a kernel issue. When you <br>boot, do you get the -rt kernel option, setup and configured for audio?<br><br>Don't know... How can I check this? (up arrow on start up?)<br><br>Did you edit your /etc/security/limits.conf file .. you have to do <br>this manually on Ubuntu Studio, after a fresh install .. see the <br>Ubuntu-studio faq/google for this one.<br><br>Yes. Had to add nice and memlock manually. <br>@audio - rtprio 99<br>@audio - memlock 1533154<br>@audio - nice -19<br>And I'm part of the audio group...<br><br>If you didn't do this, you will get stuttering, but you may not notice <br>it as well when your card is *also* producing interrupts in output. <br>Note: both the rtprio setting *and* the video-card issue can be <br>causing your bad results, so far, so if you fix one and not the other, <br>do not panic if its not all smooth! be sure you have fixed both a <br>detected video-driver issue *and* the final rtprio tweak for ubuntu, <br>together!<br><br>This is what I get.. don't know what it means though.<br>toad@thebigear:~$ cat /proc/interrupts<br> CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 <br> 0: 130 0 0 5 IO-APIC-edge timer<br> 1: 0 0 0 1417 IO-APIC-edge i8042<br> 4: 0 0 0 6 IO-APIC-edge <br> 8: 0 0 0 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc0<br> 9: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi<br> 16: 0 0 0 1009 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1, ICE1712<br> 17: 0 0 0 82657 IO-APIC-fasteoi nvidia<br> 18: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ahci<br> 19: 42095 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi pata_jmicron, ohci1394<br> 21: 0 0 0 28700 IO-APIC-fasteoi ata_piix, ata_piix<br> 23: 35421 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb2<br> 24: 1357537 0 0 0 HPET_MSI-edge hpet2<br> 25: 0 1356716 0 0 HPET_MSI-edge hpet3<br> 26: 0 0 1377060 0 HPET_MSI-edge hpet4<br> 27: 0 0 0 1360751 HPET_MSI-edge hpet5<br> 34: 7539 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth0<br>NMI: 0 0 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts<br>LOC: 279 207 135 64 Local timer interrupts<br>SPU: 0 0 0 0 Spurious interrupts<br>CNT: 0 0 0 0 Performance counter interrupts<br>PND: 0 0 0 0 Performance pending work<br>RES: 2154 3093 2550 512 Rescheduling interrupts<br>CAL: 17126 20568 13816 18991 Function call interrupts<br>TLB: 472 641 348 576 TLB shootdowns<br>TRM: 0 0 0 0 Thermal event interrupts<br>THR: 0 0 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts<br>MCE: 0 0 0 0 Machine check exceptions<br>MCP: 6 6 6 6 Machine check polls<br>ERR: 0<br>MIS: 0<br>toad@thebigear:~$ ^C<br>toad@thebigear:~$ <br><br>Thanks for looking ;-)<br><br>ToAd<br><br><br><br></blockquote></body></html>