Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Getting one or more Ds after hours of running a GRC app on Ubuntu

[Marcus Müller]

Hi John,
agreeed,
  we need to shorten this thread :)

Hence: replies below!

Best regards,
Marcus

>> They are certainly not the greatest NICs in the world when it comes to
>> CPU efficiency, but I'm not aware of any specific prolems. Can you
>> actually just try with the atheros interface? That would rule them out
>> as possible source of problems.
> Yes, I will give the on-board Atheros a try.
Great!
>> 1. could you share what "glxinfo | grep renderer" says? (or was it
>> glxinfo64? If both are present, send both :) )
>> 2. there was a way to dis/enable wx OpenGL usage per config file. My
>> brain feels a bit holey these days; I'd have to research that.
>
> address@hidden:~$ glxinfo | grep renderer
>     GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_MESA_query_renderer,
>     GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_MESA_query_renderer,
> OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Sandybridge Desktop
>
> not sure if it is significant or not but I had to install glxinfo (
> sudo apt-get install mesa-utils)
Ah, right, sorry, I forgot it doesn't come with the X server. That looks
fine, however. No "Mesa software renderer" etc.
>> do you need to power-cycle the N210?
> no Marcus, I just restart simple_ra and it goes off running fine - no
> need to touch the N200.
That's a relief; I really wanted to make sure nothing unusual makes the
N200's control mechanisms lock up.