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I moved the audio card to a Dual Pentium 4 machine with SATA drives. If I remember correctly the PowerPC machine had 49 Bogomips, the P4's...

Yellow Dog Linux appears to be defunct. I installed an old version and did not see any weird pauses. I suspect it was too old to recognize the sound card so I could not test recording.

I then...

Hi tgalati4,

Thanks for your reply!



Sorry I should have explained that better. These weird pauses happen even when there are no programs (other than the normal OS stuff) running. I did...

How hard would it be to build a low-latency kernel for PowerPC (g4)? I haven't build a kernel for 10 years.

Last year I was using this PowerMac g4 to record audio with 12.04. I could never get...

I don't see any way in /etc/default/grub to specify what installations I want to boot. For example I have different versions of Ubuntu loaded on the following partions: /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 and...

I kicked Windows to the curb in 1998, I was so fed up with Windows 95. There were several times that I came close to lobbing that $2,000 computer off my balcony. When Windows 98 came out and...

I tried an interesting experiment last night: I did a clean install of 12.04 on the second hard drive. When I got to the point where the install asked if I wanted to install grub in the MBR I...

Last week I installed 13.10 on an Dell PowerEdge that is a few years old. I got it all set up and running fine, just the way I wanted. But another machine failed and I need to use the Dell...

I have an Intel MacMini (Macmini3.1 - Core 2 Duo) that had OS X 10.5.8, Kubuntu 10.10 and rEFIt 0.13 on it. They both booted fine, but I wanted to update both and switch to Lubuntu instead of KDE.
...

My apologies, I should have included that, doh!



Yes it is 450 MHz. I have discovered that it records fine at 176400 Hz and that is probably good enough. Since there are cases where I want to...

I've been trying to use this old PowerMac to record 24-bit audio at 192 KHz. I'm using arecord but it gets buffer overruns quite often even when running with real-time priority (-9).

Would using...

I went ahead and installed Ubuntu 12.04, on the machine that didn't have Ubuntu on it before, and it is even worse. When I boot it up now, it displays a warning about "Low Graphics Mode" and...

I just installed Lubuntu 12.10 on two PowerMac G4 machines. The maximum resolution on both of them appears to be 1024x768.

Both machines have a ATI Rage 128 PF/Pro AGP 4x TMDS graphics card.
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I've determined the problem is not with ALSA, I can record 24-bits with arecord with no problem.

So I don't really need to get Jack working with 24-bits, because I can record what I need with...

I bought a ESI-Juli@ card ( http://www.esi-audio.com/products/julia/ ) specifically to record 24bits/192Khz and it was Linux compatible. It records at 192KHz just fine, but only 16-bits. When I get...

It picked different servers from the pool each time I started ntp, it just didn't seem to like any of them. I noticed the jitter was very high (>1000) on the bad system and very low (<10) on the...

Yes that is exactly what happens. Apparently ntpd -q is the replacement for ntpdate.



I thought about doing that myself. I guess I could do that as a last resort.

I ran ntpd -gddd on one...

I'm confused then, because the man page says that -q makes it quit after the first time the clock is set (which is what it does):



-q Exit the ntpd just after the first time the clock is...

When I do this:


sudo ntpd -qgddd

It works fine, it sets the time correctly (I set the clock about 3 minutes fast before running it):



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I have several machines (on completely different networks) all running either 11.04 or 12.04. On all of them except one NTP works fine and the time stays sync'd fine. On the one machine NTP doesn't...

Fascinating, that indeed fixes the problem. I went in and reversed them in the ./configure script and now that works too.

So I guess the real problem is in autoconf?

Anyway, thanks!!

I have a program that uses the Qt3 libraries. It built with no problems on 11.04, but on 11.10 the ./configure fails when trying to link the test program:



g++ -lqt-mt -lSM -lICE -lX11...

It worked for me too, thanks!

FYI - I finally gave up pn KDE 4. Even after I disabled Nepomuk and Akonadi I still had processes running that I didn't want. When I disable something, I expect it to be completely disabled.

I...

I don't like the looks of Digital Clock in Kubuntu 11.04. It also doesn't seem to respect the 24-Hour setting I have in the Locale.

It appears to be the only one available in the widgets. I tried...