On 6/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Loki Davison</b> <<a href="mailto:loki.davison@gmail.com">loki.davison@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 6/25/07, Chuckk Hubbard <<a href="mailto:badmuthahubbard@gmail.com">badmuthahubbard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> On 6/24/07, Loki Davison <<a href="mailto:loki.davison@gmail.com">loki.davison@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
<br>> ><br>> > On 6/25/07, Chuckk Hubbard <<a href="mailto:badmuthahubbard@gmail.com">badmuthahubbard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > > On 12/1/06, Dave Phillips <<a href="mailto:dlphillips@woh.rr.com">
dlphillips@woh.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > > ><br>> > > > Bill Allen wrote:<br>> > > ><br>> > > > > At the risk of repeating myself, in the time that I've been just<br>
> > > > > reading this thread (not to mention the time that you've been<br>> > putting<br>> > > > > into trying the stuff mentioned) I could have downloaded 64Studio,<br>> > set
<br>> > > > > aside a 5-10 GB partition, installed it, and had a working system<br>> > with<br>> > > > > all the real-time patched AMD64 music-enabled system that you can<br>> > get.
<br>> > > > > Yes, you've got to dual boot, I do it all the time. Ubuntu is my<br>> > > > > family system that we use for work and play, but when I want to do<br>> > > > > music I boot into 64Studio. It's simply a lot easier than trying to
<br>> > > > > make a general purpose distro into a music enabled one.<br>> > > ><br>> > > > Hear the man. I started writing a similar reply yesterday, but Bill's<br>> > > > said it better here. Given the availability of multimedia-optimized
<br>> > > > distros I just don't see the point of putting myself through what the<br>> > > > distro maintainers have already been through and mastered. Maybe it's<br>> > an<br>> > > > age thing, at mine I get someone else to do the heavy lifting. :)
<br>> > > ><br>> > > > Really, I work with Linux audio software to make music. I lost<br>> > interest<br>> > > > in mucking about with kernel configurations long ago. Yes, I'm glad I
<br>> > > > know how to do some of that stuff by myself, but I no longer consider<br>> > it<br>> > > > a necessary part of the process. I agree with Bill, use 64Studio,<br>> > > > PlanetCCRMA, or some other optimized distro and save yourself time and
<br>> > > > energy.<br>> > > ><br>> > > > Best,<br>> > > ><br>> > > > dp<br>> > > ><br>> > > ><br>> > > Hi Dave and everyone. I am still wrestling with this. I have the new
<br>> > ALSA<br>> > > driver that supports my card, finally, but under 64studio I still get<br>> > > 20-some xruns a second, and Audacity is unable to connect to jackd.<br>> > > PortAudio appears for a split second in the jack connection dialog, and
<br>> > > disappears. Some of you told me 64studio was preconfigured for<br>> > low-latency<br>> > > audio out of the "box" and all the apps were tuned to the distro, but it<br>> > > doesn't seem to work that way for me.
<br>> > > Anyone know an up-to-date guide to low-latency audio on Debian or Linux?<br>> > > There's still a lot of info out there that is obsolete, so I'm wary of<br>> > > Google.<br>> > > Just a note: I have been trying for several years to get low-latency
<br>> > audio<br>> > > working right on Linux. This is a new machine, though, as of November<br>> > 06,<br>> > > and I had to wait 7 months for my audio card and wireless (still not<br>> > working
<br>> > > right) to be nominally supported, so I haven't tried much for about 6<br>> > > months. I'm still amazed at how everything just seems to work without<br>> > > tweaking for some folks, and I'm wondering if there's something
<br>> > fundamental<br>> > > I'm just not doing. My problems have baffled some of the very<br>> > developers<br>> > > who created drivers specifically for the hardware I have. What could be
<br>> > > wrong?<br>> > ><br>> > > -Chuckk<br>> > ><br>> ><br>> > I also had problems for ages getting my soundcard to work. After a<br>> > long time i found a good solution. I bought a decent soundcard. Got
<br>> > cardbus on the laptop? grab an echo cardbus thing. They are cheap on<br>> > ebay in the USA. I got my Gina3g from the USA for 200 USD. Pretty damn<br>> > cheap compared to a new guitar or bass. If you have firewire you can
<br>> > try that too after looking what cards work. The cardbus is easier<br>> > though.<br>><br>><br>> Thanks Loki. My soundcard works though. The wireless does not, but I'm<br>> just posting here to find out how to improve my audio performance.
<br>><br>> -Chuckk<br>><br><br>What do you mean by works really? My previous soundcard was fine for<br>playing mp3s but useless for recording with jack or doing anything<br>without xruns. New card, no problems. Works very well.
<br><br>Loki</blockquote><div><br>I'm glad that worked for you, but with the number of times I've been told stuff would just work fine with no problems if I switched, and then it hasn't, I'm not ready to believe all my problems will disappear if I go spend more money.
<br></div><br></div>-Chuckk<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><a href="http://www.badmuthahubbard.com">http://www.badmuthahubbard.com</a>