Re: powermac 7500 [was: Re: [linux-audio-user] ppc audio input..]

I have a PPC7200, with 601e chip, it's similar to the original poster's setup, minus the G3 upgrade. I don't know about upgrade cards, never tried it on a ppc, but this was my first linux machine with YDL 1999 and then YDL2000 (actually, before YDL1999 I had installed MkLinux!, around 1997-98 and then linuxppc). Obviously, I haven't upgraded in 4 years(!) but it's still running, I use it mostly as a file server and for burning CDs... If I find my old keyboard I will prolly try to install a newer distro... However, I was able to use audio, although in those days a lot of apps had endianess issues. IIRC this was one of the first PCI machines apple did (I think 6400 & 6500 came first) and I believe that all PCI based powermacs will run linux. Haha, I think that this would make me a veteran apple hardware user for sound applications. All the other linux mac users didn't seem to be interested in sound, beyond playing CDs and mp3 files. ALSA was nonexistent and I had to deal with OSS, and I believe I even purchased the license for the full-duplex support. I used to run MixedViews (or somesuch), csound, pd <boring note> I used to dual boot with MacOS8.6 and used to compare performance of various apps. Csound run better (faster) on that machine on linux side (compared to csoundPPC) and Pd seemed more efficient than Max/MSP. </> ./MiS Joe Hartley &lt;jh(a)brainiac.com&gt; writes: