asterisk users - Jun 2004 - HFC ISDN card with bristuff from jung hanns.n et?

Hi Alessio
Yes, the problems you report do seem similar to the issues I had.  I found on
the Dells that the audio prompts were very choppy and played slower than normal.
Occasionally there would be 'bursts' oav a second or so of
'good' audio.

I also suspected IRQ issues but the Dell Mobos had no way of adjusting them. 
Best thing is to try and get the card on its own unshared IRQ.  If this fails,
you either have to try a different pc, or collect 600 euros together and send
them to Junghanns.net, and they will send you a quadBRI card that does not have
this problem.

Rgds
Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: Alessio Focardi [mailto:afoc@interconnessioni.it] 
Sent: 17 June 2004 12:19
To: Robinson Tim-W10277; asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
Subject: Re[2]: [Asterisk-Users] HFC ISDN card with bristuff from junghanns.n
et?


Hello Robinson,

Thursday, June 17, 2004, 12:42:21 PM, you wrote:

RTW> Please can you explain in more details as to what your problem is?  
RTW> I have 2 cards working in one PC, but have had problems with Dell 
RTW> motherboards.

voice is out of sync, it syncs for some second if I run something over another
console, like, for instance a "find /" then slips away again.

I suspect an Irq problem, what do you think ? What kind of problems have you
found with dell's ?

Tnx for the help !


-- 
Best regards,
 Alessio                            mailto:afoc@interconnessioni.it

Hello Robinson,

Thursday, June 17, 2004, 1:19:12 PM, you wrote:

RTW> Hi Alessio
RTW> Yes, the problems you report do seem similar to the issues
RTW> I had.  I found on the Dells that the audio prompts were very
RTW> choppy and played slower than normal.  Occasionally there would
RTW> be 'bursts' oav a second or so of 'good' audio.

RTW> I also suspected IRQ issues but the Dell Mobos had no way
RTW> of adjusting them.  Best thing is to try and get the card on its
RTW> own unshared IRQ.  If this fails, you either have to try a
RTW> different pc, or collect 600 euros together and send them to
RTW> Junghanns.net, and they will send you a quadBRI card that does
RTW> not have this problem.

Well card has his own irq, I will try to tweak bios parameters to see if
something gets better.

Meanwhile since I orderer 2 dell's yesterday hoping to solve the problem
I'm going to bang my head
against the wall until they arrive ....

Tnx for now !


-- 
Best regards,
 Alessio                            mailto:afoc@interconnessioni.it

First of all, this is all too vague information you guys are providing
here.

When you state problems like this, you should be more specific.

A) What card are you using (there are lots of HFC-S cards out there).
B) What distribution, asterisk-version (stable, HEAD, what date if HEAD)
are you using).
C) Maybe a output of lspci -v could help
D) What kernel are you using ? is ACPI enabled ?
E) What configuration are you using bristuff in ? TE mode ? NT mode ?
both ?

and a lot of other information.

The last two mails were basically useless to solve or troubleshoot
anything.

To say it quite frank, beyond some minor issues with channel assignments
and incomming calls from IAX to ZAP (zaphfc, NT mode, Typhoon ISDN card)
i do not have problems with bristuff (0.0.2, CVS HEAD 20040324, libpri
20040510). I'm running the whole thing on a Dell Dimension 8300 on
Debian Sarge (testing, partly unstable), kernel 2.4.26, with SMP enabled
and hyperthreading enabled on the cpu.

I could add lots of other information here and the only thing why i'm
not reporting the IAX trouble i have is because i currently haven't
tested if the same problem persists with CVS stable (which is what
kapejod assumes when he develops bristuff) or the newest CVS HEAD (which
would require me to change some things in the patches kapejod provides).

Please try again, if you would like to have anybody look at your
problems. The way you stated your problems until now gives nobody a
clue.

Kind regards,
Martin List-Petersen
martin (at) list (dash) petersen (dot) net


On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 12:19, Robinson Tim-W10277 wrote:
> Hi Alessio
> Yes, the problems you report do seem similar to the issues I had.  I found
on the Dells that the audio prompts were very choppy and played slower than
normal.  Occasionally there would be 'bursts' oav a second or so of
'good' audio.
> 
> I also suspected IRQ issues but the Dell Mobos had no way of adjusting
them.  Best thing is to try and get the card on its own unshared IRQ.  If this
fails, you either have to try a different pc, or collect 600 euros together and
send them to Junghanns.net, and they will send you a quadBRI card that does not
have this problem.
> 
> Rgds
> Tim
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alessio Focardi [mailto:afoc@interconnessioni.it] 
> Sent: 17 June 2004 12:19
> To: Robinson Tim-W10277; asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re[2]: [Asterisk-Users] HFC ISDN card with bristuff from
junghanns.n et?
> 
> 
> Hello Robinson,
> 
> Thursday, June 17, 2004, 12:42:21 PM, you wrote:
> 
> RTW> Please can you explain in more details as to what your problem is?
> RTW> I have 2 cards working in one PC, but have had problems with Dell 
> RTW> motherboards.
> 
> voice is out of sync, it syncs for some second if I run something over
another console, like, for instance a "find /" then slips away again.
> 
> I suspect an Irq problem, what do you think ? What kind of problems have
you found with dell's ?
> 
> Tnx for the help !