[00:32] <eclectic_bill> Eickmeyer:  I'm shocked at that news! brand new ssd, says 6gb/sec! will try to find out if they have faster ones and if I can exchange it.
[00:55] <eclectic_bill> sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sda:
[00:56] <eclectic_bill> Timing cached reads::: 13510 mb in 1.99 seconds = 6775.62 MB/sec
[00:57] <eclectic_bill> Timing buffered disk reads :1528 MB in 3.00 seconds = 508.83 MB/sec
[01:04] <eclectic_bill> waaaa! I just wanna learn to record music on Linux!!!
[03:39] <Eickmeyer> eclectic_bill: The bottleneck is likely not the SSD itself, but your motherboard. It likely just can't handle the I/O.
[07:33] <corrinado[m]> <Eickmeyer "eclectic_bill: The bottleneck is"> Exactly
[10:52] <eclectic_bill> I got a free laptop from work and got it all set up and thought I can finally record music after decades of computer & music being separate--probably can't afford a more powerful laptop...maybe I just see if other programs than ardour can work for me.
[10:56] <eclectic_bill> audaciy could probably handle a lot of my initial goals, and there must be other programs that could do the job..qtractor?
[10:59] <eclectic_bill> thato would not quite make those hardware demands. weird, because the amount of data I was dealing with at failure was tiny, and I'd already made a successful small 4-track recording in the morning, and the comp seems plenty powerful for everything else. Thanks for the insight!
[11:01] <eclectic_bill> actually, there was no real amount of data at the point of failure. It recorded in the morning, and refused to record in the afternoon.
[13:58] <jaymz168> Hello all! Can anyone help with patching, building and packaging a kernel on Ubuntu?  I've got an audio interface that misbehaves and a driver was developed on linuxmusicians which I managed to get working on Manjaro following their build toolchain.  But what I'd really like to do is run Ubuntu Studio, patch a 5.8.6 kernel with my driver and build
[13:58] <jaymz168> using the proper toolchain with the proper Ubuntu Studio pataches.
[13:58] <jaymz168> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
[13:59] <jaymz168> And 5.8.x AFAIK is required due to the added support for USB implicit feedback
[14:13] <OvenWerks> eclectic_bill: That does sound odd. Could it be something else was happening (SW update) in the background?
[14:13] <OvenWerks> eclectic_bill: I find doing a swapoff then swapon then record sometimes helps
[14:15] <OvenWerks> I have an older laptop using ubuntustudio 18.04 (it is 32bit so 20.04 won't work) and have done recording on it with no problems. I think it only has 2gb of ram
[14:15] <OvenWerks> more than 10 years old.
[14:16]  * OvenWerks is miffed that there is no longer 32 bit support and is looking at installing debian on that device at least.
[14:21] <OvenWerks> jaymz168: have you looked at the 20.10 kernel? It is 5.8. I do not know if it already includes the module you need or if you would have to add it still.
[14:21] <OvenWerks> but that would be the best starting point.
[14:23] <OvenWerks> jaymz168: also, while not really supported, there are a few other kernals around too that can offer goof performance and at least in my testing, have worked fine with studio.
[14:38] <OvenWerks> jaymz168: anyway, It has been some time since I have built kernels. I would guess start with the kernal source package and go from there.
[14:40] <jaymz168> OvenWerks: It won't have the patch, it's not upstream and I'm not sure they're trying to push it yet.  It was developed for a specific interface but it turns it out it works for an entire family of related hardware so I think more testing  is in order.
[14:40] <jaymz168> OvenWerks: Thanks for lead on 20.10, I'll have a look and see if it's easier to just run unstable and patch that.
[14:41] <OvenWerks> jaymz168: n0o it wouldn't have the patch but if you start from the source package it should be able to be patched and built.
[14:41] <jaymz168> OvenWerks: Thanks!
[14:41] <OvenWerks> jaymz168: also I have found that most often it does not matter which kernel one uses
[14:42] <OvenWerks> That is using a 20.10 kernel with 20.04 will likely work with no problems
[14:43] <jaymz168> OvenWerks: That's what I was thinking too.
[14:44] <OvenWerks> I am sure we will get told that any such setup is "Not Supported"
[14:46] <OvenWerks> on the other hand, 20.10 is in reasonable good shape.