26 Apr
2004
26 Apr
'04
3:17 p.m.
Matthew Allen wrote:
Good luck. If your experience is like mine you'll get a lot of people
looking over your shoulder to find out about Linux.
I ended up with Compaq R3070 at a good price. In my case pretty much
everything worked well in the store except hdparm -tT speeds. I could
see that in my case the Compaq was using a new ATI chipset so I came
home, did some snooping and found that DMA support was added somewhere
around 2.6.5, so installing that level of kernel when I built the
machine solved that problem. However, then under 2.6.6 I had some Alsa
problems (<hehe> so what's new about that?!?) which Takashi has recently
solved.
The machine now works quite nicely in both Gentoo and Win XP Pro running
Pro Tools on the road.
- Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: linux-audio-user-bounces(a)music.columbia.edu [mailto:linux-audio-
user-bounces(a)music.columbia.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Knecht
I recently ran DSL, Dynebolic, Gentoo LiveCD AND Knoppix in Frys on
all
of the laptops I was considering until I found
models that ran all 4
CDs. This gave me a lot of confidence that once I got the laptop home
I'd be able to put Linux on it. It worked. I know watch DVD using Xine
and Alsa just fine.
Aww man what an awesome idea! This sounds like 3 hours of weekend fun.
And just in time for my laptop buying adventures.
Thanks
.matt