Re: [LAU] A year of Linux Audio revisited - would like to know your oppinion

Le Mardi, 11 Décembre 2007 08:42:56 +0100, Sebastian Tschöpel <tschoseb(a)tu-cottbus.de> a écrit : I do not agree with the hardware issues of the article. At least not on the basic functionalities. As far as I'm concerned I bought, plugged and played the following items: Alesis Control Pad, and the M-Audio Prokeys88 and M-Audio Axiom 25 keyboards. Now, there's no software to use for storing presets on the Axiom 25 (only Windows) but that's OK since I don't need that function. And the Control Pad came with BFD drums that so far I cannot use on Linux (haven't looked at it that much either). I wouldn't call that hardware issues. The M-Audio 1010LT card did not require either any configuration apart from installing it in the PC and reading the manual to know what the bunch of wires means. I think these hardware components might be very well be popular. And I wouldn't be surprised that _any_ MIDI keyboard would simply show up in jack after connecting, without aby other thing to do. And what about drivers ? Drivers ? I never installed any friggin' driver in Linux for making music. I easily downloaded using the friendly graphical interface for KDE kyum the Planet CCRMA applications I needed for making music and that's it. But drivers ? I'm curious about what kind of drivers you need under Linux, and to which hardware they belong. Surely there must be some exoensive stuff out there that requires drivers... Tschüß, Al