[linux-audio-user] Demudi looking good, soundcard advice?

[MarC]

Alejandro Lopez wrote:

> Chaps,
>
> Just installed Demudi, sorry I can't remember versions, it's some beta 
> that came out something like 2-3 months ago which was the first to 
> merge Debian + music studio on the same CD (requiring one installation 
> only).
>
instalate la 1.2.0 que acaba de salir

> Generally, I would recommend the distribution for an easy install 
> (I've not used it yet), I'd like to make a couple of comments in case 
> anyone is interested.
>
> -My PC won't boot from CD-ROM. By browsing the directory structure, I 
> kind of guessed I had at least a couple of choices for DOS: booting 
> from a rawrite2'd floppy or run loadlin. Fair enough, there's a 
> vmlinuz file there as well as several .bin floppy images. But: loadlin 
> is not included in the CD image, not it is rawrite2. Not a big deal 
> for me as I had several other distros handy but not elegant either. In 
> the same directory where these images reside, there's a little text 
> file which lists loadlin and rawrite2: should read "loadlin", reads 
> "lodlin" (in case anyone would like report this for future versions).
>
no configuraste la bios para arrancar des de CD?

> -I was not able to select English language with a Spanish keyboard 
> layout (I'm Spanish). You are supposed to select both in one go, the 2 
> different options in the menu (that you can see if you select back 
> somewhere in the middle of the process) seem to be related and didn't 
> work as such distinct options for me.

es un error de configuracion de Agnula. Haz un bug-report en la pagina 
www.agnula.org. Yo tb quiero que lo arreglen!
lo puedes arreglar haciendo en la consola:
"xf86cfg -textmode" y configurando el texto

>
> -At one point, I went back and selected Spanish (for everything, that 
> is), next step was repartitioning my hard disk which is inherently a 
> dangerous operation. The translation of the partitioning software to 
> Spanish was so poor (wrong actually) that I was scared to repartition 
> in Spanish. Went back to English so I could understand what the 
> software would do with my hard disk but now my keyboard layout doesn't 
> match. I'm planning installing to a different machine I imported from 
> Germany, so I'll have the same layout problem (I'd rather not choose 
> German language to repartition my disk in order to have the keyboard 
> properly installed).
>
> -From there on, the installation was as smooth as one could have asked 
> for. All my hardware was detected and installed automagically 
> including graphics card, monitor, mouse, sound card (ALSA), network 
> card, modem, CD-ROM.
>
> So generally I'd say it's a very easy to install distribution, and 
> definitely a huge improvement over the classic "2 installation steps" 
> approach that all the other music distributions have or used to have. 
> I'm very pleased with regards to that.
>
> The only other thing is I may need to buy a decent soundcard for this 
> PC. It should have a GM synth (nothing special since I guess I'll be 
> using soft synths anyway but I don't want to run a synth just to write 
> a couple of arrangements), one stereo output and one stereo input both 
> with good overall audio quality. Seemingly, the current trend is 
> towards either USB 2.0, firewire or PCI. A colleague has just told me 
> that USB 2.0 is supported by the Linux kernel starting from the latest 
> version (2.6 I think?) only. Since music distributions are based on 
> other distributions, chances are that they now run the 2.4 kernel or 
> maybe older. Does that make sense or am I talking complete b*ll*cks? 
> Also, this friend has heard about drops happening with audio over USB, 
> but apparently this was on a Mac and the USB device was a hard disk 
> rather than a soundcard. Still, he seems to think that USB 2.0 is not 
> as good option as firewire for audio. (Which reminds me of SCSI vs IDE 
> drives for audio a few years back, yes SCSI was the serious option for 
> a couple of years but it was an 80% more expensive as well, and 
> shortly afterwards IDE started to go "fast enough" and cheaper.) Is 
> firewire better? Is it more expensive? Also, how does it compare to 
> PCI? Lastly, if any of you has bought a soundcard (recently so the 
> card is still in production) which is reasonably similar to what I 
> need (wouldn't mind if it's slightly better, say 4 mono inputs and 4 
> mono outputs or something) and has succeed with having it running 
> under a Linux based music studio, I'd be grateful if you drop a line.

estoy exactamente en el mismo punto que tu. yo tengo una Creative Audigy 
que para grabar es correcta(para maquetas) pero no puedes monitorizar a 
tiempo real. tb quiero dar el paso a una targeta mejor y no se por donde 
empezar teniendo en cuenta el soporte limitado en Linux.

te agredeceria muchisimo si me comentas lo que descubras cuando hagas 
progresos!

saludos des de Barcelona,
MarC

>
> Many thanks!!
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