[linux-audio-user] MDK audio distro survey

[iriXx]

Austin Acton wrote:
> Hello all,
> I'm a major contributor and volunteer at Mandrake, and I've been working
> to get Mandrake up-to-date and more complete with regard to audio
> applications, so I thought this would be a good place to come for
> advice.  If you have a few minutes, please answer any of the following
> questions you can.  Doing so will help make Mandrake 9.1 the best audio
> distribution on the planet...
> 
> 1. If Mandrake 9.0 is your primary distribution for audio, what is your
> #1 complaint?

there is a major problem with the alsa distribution with Mandrake 9.0 
which causes really badly distorted sound when used with the m-audio usb 
quattro - i had to remove the distributed modules entirely and use CVS 
tarballs to solve this problem as it wasnt resolved by using the Cooker 
upgrades.


> 3. What audio applications are we missing (please check current list
> provided below, as many new apps have been added since 9.0)?

SpiralLoops, spiralsynthmodular, spiral synth
Ceres3
cinelerra
broadcast2000
snd
pd
jmax
csound, cecilia


> 
> 4. What thee audio applications do you consider the most
> valuable/important? (do not include alsa, jack, mixers, or ogg/mp3
> players/encoders)

ceres3
spiral loops
broadcast2000/cinelerra

> 
> Thanks very much.  I appreciate your time, and please let me know
> personally if there is anything else I can do to make Mandrake more
> audio-friendly.


actually i've always had problems with Mandrake's auto-configuring of 
sound - i think it would be good to have more options for configuration 
built into the install program, as they are with X or printer and modem 
config. Mandrake 9.0 detects the wrong soundcard for my thinkpad 600e 
and wont yet configure my usb-audio soundcard... maybe i just pick the 
wrong cards - the first one i struggled to install was the Turtle Beach 
Pinnacle under mandrake 7.0.... but i've stuck with it as i like 
Mandrake as a distro... maybe Mdk could take a leaf out of SuSE's book 
with having multimedia easily configured at install....

bw
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