[linux-audio-user] Re: The best distro for music creation

[Loki Davison]

On 12/15/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/14/05, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 10:34 -0800, R Parker wrote:
> > > The reason you piss people off is because every
> > > helpful reply you make has a snide condescending
> > > remark in it somewhere. Very seldomly do you reply
> > > without registering your intolerance and your
> > > superiority over whomever it is that you are
> > > supposedly helping.
> > >
> > > Why should anyone even bother posting on this mailing
> > > list when they will be expecting you to insult them?
> >
> > You are probably right.  Really, I'm a nice guy, I guess my only excuse
> > is that I spend a lot of time on development mailing lists where this
> > type of behavior is tolerated at best and encouraged at worst.
> >
> > Sorry if I offended anyone...
> >
> > Lee
>
> Lee,
>    You've offended me at least a once or twice... ;-)
>
>    That said you've helped me at least a million times more. I, for
> one, am happoy that you're here.
>
> - Mark

I have to admit, i was getting a touch annoyed there, as not all of us
have limitless money to get what we want as far as opensource and fast
goes. I'm still happy this list ends up friendly and happy. I was
looking for a card with opensource drivers when i got my nvidia, but i
really have to admit i'm very happy with my nvidia card with it's evil
commercial drivers. It was 30 euro, and for that price you can't get a
lot of pci-e stuff, with 256 mb of DDR3 mem that can play Red
Orchestra (native linux) etc at max quality and good frame rates.

to quote the opengraphics faq

"
 *Will I be able to play Doom 3 with this hardware?*

  Nope, but at the time of this writing, there is no graphics card on
the market on which you can play Doom 3 well while using open source
drivers. Less demanding games are likely to work however.

"

my 6600le sli, plays doom 3 at 75 frames a sec 1024 X 768, at good
quality settings. It's still a dull game though ;-) The opengraphics
site says it's only pci, then agp. I've got pci-e. Given that the
opengraphics card doesn't actually exist yet, but comparing the
specs...

6600le                   opengraphics
1.2 Billion pixels/s :: 400 million pixels/s
4 Pixel Pipelines at 425 :: Dual pixel pipeline at 200 Mhz
1000 MHz memory :: 400 hz memory
3 Vertex Pipelines :: doesn't mention anything about them
easy to overclock :: pretty much maxed out.

so the open graphics card seem in the same league as an old $10 matrox
that has open source drivers. Not anything like my 6600le, or even my
onboard pci-e card, which has much higher specs than the opengraphics
one.

>From the faq " It will accelerate games to varying degrees, but that
is not its primary purpose."

So yeah, it all depends on what you want, good, fast, cheap and open,
choose 2 ;-)
Anyway... back to me trying to learn guitar. guitar is REALLY fun ;-)
Trying to learn i'm on fire, bruce springsteen.

Loki