powermac 7500 [was: Re: [linux-audio-user] ppc audio input..]

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:13:23AM -0500, Michal Seta wrote:
> 
> I have a PPC7200, with 601e chip, it's similar to the original
> poster's setup, minus the G3 upgrade.  I don't know about upgrade cards,
> never tried it on a ppc, but this was my first linux machine with YDL
> 1999 and then YDL2000 (actually, before YDL1999 I had installed
> MkLinux!, around 1997-98 and then linuxppc).  Obviously, I haven't upgraded in 4 years(!)
> but it's still running, I use it mostly as a file server and for
> burning CDs...  If I find my old keyboard I will prolly try to install
> a newer distro...  
> 
> However, I was able to use audio, although in those days a lot of apps
> had endianess issues. 
> 
> IIRC this was one of the first PCI machines apple did (I think 6400 &
> 6500 came first) and I believe that all PCI based powermacs will run
> linux.
> 
> Haha, I think that this would make me a veteran apple hardware user for
> sound applications.  All the other linux mac users didn't seem to be
> interested in sound, beyond playing CDs and mp3 files.  ALSA was
> nonexistent and I had to deal with OSS, and I believe I even purchased
> the license for the full-duplex support.
> 
> I used to run MixedViews (or somesuch), csound, pd
> 
> <boring note>
> I used to dual boot with MacOS8.6 and used to compare performance of
> various apps.  Csound run better (faster) on that machine on linux
> side (compared to csoundPPC) and Pd seemed more efficient than
> Max/MSP.
> </>
> 
> 
> ./MiS
> 
> Joe Hartley <jh at brainiac.com> writes:

Thanks. That's encouraging.

-Eric Rz.