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Investigate PsychRTBox timing problems on Linux 3.2.0 before 12.04-LTS #1

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago
What steps will reproduce the problem?

Testrun of PsychRTBox on Linux 3.2.0-rc7 seems to indicate bad syncClocks 
timing for host clock <-> RtBox clock calibration. Reproduced on Ubuntu 10.10 + 
MBP and Ubuntu 11.10 + Dell WS. No such problem with Linux 3.0.0 stable kernel.

Investigate: A bug in Linux ftdi_serio driver? Or some other change in 
sysconfig? Suspect: No proper blocking of write()'s / tcdrain() or 
missing/wrong flushing of usb write buffers? Or because or old sync strategy is 
not valid anymore and we should use the same method as on os/x and windows, 
discarding the linux specific, higher accuracy method?

Target: Investigate before 12.04-LTS release, which uses Linux 3.2.0 kernel.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by mario.kl...@gmail.com on 7 Jan 2012 at 9:48