[linux-audio-user] Newbie Linux user Struggling with MIDI

[Shayne O'Connor]

Lee Revell wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 07:16 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 21:54 -0500, pjfjacks wrote:
>>
>>>Just wish I'd taken better notes along the way...it pains me greatly.
>>>Everything but MIDI was working so well.  Totally shameful as the XP system
>>>hums right along ...this isn't right at all..
>>>
>>>Phil J.
>>> 
>>>
>>>
>>>Eh, I've wiped out my systems a bunch of times, and it's always a lot
>>>faster to get your settings back the second time.
>>
>>phil, you are getting some very poor advice here, i am not sure why.
>>
>>system reinstalls are *NOT* the way to solve problems with linux.
> 
> 
> Hey,
> 
> I only said a reinstall might be a good idea as Phil had installed
> Ubuntu (which worked perfectly AFAICT, except the MIDI thing which I
> think was a config error), then added a Demudi source to his
> sources.list which I don't think is supposed to work, and which really
> hosed things (lost the network).
> 
> So he asked me if a Ubuntu reinstall is the best way to go from here and
> I said probably.  Obviously don't reinstall if you have data you care
> about!
> 
> Maybe this was poor advice.  However when I was a new Linux user and
> really hosed things I often found a reinstall was teh quickest and
> easiest way to get back to square one.
>

i'll second that ... a re-install can really learn you some fast lessons 
about linux, too. of course, re-installing is something i avoid like the 
plague now, but back when i was beginning .... man, i re-installed every 
other day. one of the things i learnt to do from this, which makes 
re-installing pretty painless if you've got a bunch of data and 
configurations, is to have your /home folder on a seperate partition.

shayne