[LAU] No joy with AVlinux

[Batz]

Y-ellow All.
         OK. need some help here. I regret to say that I'm not getting much 
mileage out of AVlinux. I haven't felt quite like throwing a computer out 
the window, since Turtle Beach first started making sound cards. Well, OK, 
It's not quite that bad but it's certainly reminiscent. Ah them were the 
days... However I think my days of experiments in computer aerodynamics are 
behind me. :) I hope.

I'm not even quite sure what questions to ask at this point. There is so 
much not working properly. It all seems quite hopeless. So ultimately; I 
need to know if I am wasting my time or should I persist? Should I move on 
and try a different distro? Though I actually like the distro it self.

The test bed is fairly simple...

2.8 gig P4
1 gig RAM
Hoontech DSP124 (Envy24) sound card.
Evolution MK249 USB keyboard.

The final system will be different to this but this will have to do as a 
proof of concept. All of which appears to work in and of it self.

For the most part, software will either connect to MIDI or Audio but not 
both. All except for that little drum machine thing. Hydrogen? I get sound 
and MIDI but it Xruns and crashes regularly. I'm not so much worried about 
the Xruns at this point. There are bigger issues. Linux sampler only works 
as a Zynjacku plug in. Except that Zynjacku's MIDI comes up in the MIDI tab 
of JACK. Everything else comes in under the ALSA tab. Which means there's 
no way to connect to it. Or no obvious way.

Yoshimi looked really interesting. It looks as though you can use samples 
as oscillators which could be what I'm after. Except that as above, I can't 
connect MIDI into it. And even when using the little keyboard 
applet/window, it crashes a lot. Usually it takes JACK out as well. To the 
point of requiring a reboot. Because the frozen windows lock themselves and 
I can't kill them. And JACK won't connect anything after that. I guess I 
could find the process and kill it. I can't see that being very helpful up 
on stage in front of an audience though. And the last time it crashed, it 
seems to have crashed permanently. Yoshimi will load and lock it self and 
that's all.

Perhaps the recording apps work well. I don't know. I'm not set up to test 
that. And this is not my current focus.

So anyway, if any of this sound familiar and is easily fixed then I'd be 
over the moon to hear about it. Or alternatively, should I move on to try 
another distro?

Thanks in advance.

Be absolutely icebox.

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