cezar(a)mixandgo.ro wrote: The best I have had with a usb-1.0 device is 128bit/s but I can run 4 alsaplayers, jack-rack and jackEQ at the same time with 4 outputs via alsa multi. My cpu is a pIV 2.6GHz with 2.6.13.2 unpatched kernel. You really want to get the most powerful cpu you can afford if you want to have true freedom to run multiple apps. I use ardour, audacity, hydrogen, ssm and terminatorX a lot too and highly reccomend taps stereo echo plugin for live dub. hth. -- Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd. Http://www.boosthardware.com Http://www.djcj.org/LAU/guide/ - The Linux Audio Users guide ======================================== Apparently upon the beginning of the barrage, the donkey broke discipline and panicked, toppling the cart. At that point, the rockets disconnected from the timer, leaving them strewn around the street. Tethered to the now toppled cart, the donkey was unable to escape before the arrival of U.S. troops. United Press International Rockets on donkeys hit major Baghdad sites By P. MITCHELL PROTHERO Published 11/21/2003 11:13 AM

or build it. assembling your laptop is a the only way to not pay Microsoft for a copy of XP, and allows the opportunity to put in components you know there are open/free/good/working drivers for. check out the barebones notebooks from ASUS and MSI..

Hallo, Lee Revell hat gesagt: // Lee Revell wrote: The sad thing is, that barebones aren't any cheaper just because they don't come with XP, they can even be a bit more expensiv. But that's the price you pay for not having to run XP. ;) The good thing is, that with barebones the manufacturer often tries to follow the standards a bit more, because in the long run it will make it easier for them as far as support etc. is concerned. These barebones are sold under various different brandnames, so they like to keep this side of possible failures as small as possible. For example I have the MSI S260 barebone (you will see it at LAC2006 ;). I bought it pre-built, but built according to my wishes. You don't get a lot of wishes with these notebook barebones anyway: CPU, RAM and harddisk is all that can be changed, and I was too lazy to do this myself. Everything worked out of the box with Linux and a current x.org, but it's a Centrino machine, so generally well supported hardware. Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__

Hallo, Lee Revell hat gesagt: // Lee Revell wrote: As this probably won't happen (soon) maybe it's indeed best to try to create a kind of whitelist as you suggested. And of course a blacklist, which could create pressure on manufacturers. I guess, not only Linux is affected by a latency-killing BIOS, right? Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__

Hallo, Lee Revell hat gesagt: // Lee Revell wrote: I found this, which mentions the System Management Mode (SMM) as well as a source of realtime problems: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnxpembed/html/hardrealtime.asp?fra… The subchapter "Hardware causes of ISR latency" says this: Power management, especially on portable devices, creates occasional long-latency events when the CPU is put in a low-power-consumption state after a period of inactivity. Such problems are usually quite easy to detect. A typical system can disable those features via BIOS setup. Some systems, again typically notebooks, use the Pentium processor's System Management Mode (SMM) to perform specialized keystroke or other processing in BIOS firmware. While in SMM, the processor does not field interrupts that adds to ISR latencies. Fortunately new generations of system platforms, starting with ACPI platforms and Windows 2000, use the operating system and not BIOS, to provide power management. As a result, these sources of latency are now minimal. The last paragraph indicates that there might be hope. Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__

carmen wrote: Huh! I didn't know this could be done. That certainly appeals to me. I found this page with info and parts: http://www.abs.com/diy/diy_index.asp?CMP=KAC-keywords&ATT=notebook+bare… Are there other similar sites out there? -ERic Rz.

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:05:34 -0500 Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <eric(a)zhevny.com> wrote: As a matter of fact, I do. I have an LC2210DE that has an overheating issue. The CPU gets so hot, the machine turns itself off with some cutoff on the board itself.. It's really frustrating for my wife, since it's her machine. I have an ongoing ticket with LinuxCertified. They said there was a kernel bug, but a kernel upgrade and hours spent on tweaking cpuspeed and laptop stands haven't cured the problem. When the system shuts down, it's a hard shutoff at high extended CPU usage, like the prelink process run from cron. Nothing's logged, there's no sign of it being shut down orderly by acpi. Next step is an RMA, the story unfolds. -- ====================================================================== Joe Hartley - UNIX/network Consultant - jh(a)brainiac.com Without deviation from the norm, "progress" is not possible. - FZappa

On 3/26/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell(a)joe-job.com> wrote: I've been looking into this pretty hard myself. I just bought a Roland A-33 MIDI controller so I could run Native Instrument's B4 organ software on my Ubuntu box. Whether or not Ubuntu is the perfect audio distro is a matter of opinion, but the hardware end of things isn't. I agree with Lee, having a 2 or 3U box is the perfect solution. I just don't see laptops being able to compare with desktop hardware here. The trouble is finding a short enough rackmount case to fit in what I would consider to be a "standard" audio rack (18" or less). I found some here: www.mypccase.com. I have no experience with these people, but so far they are the only ones I've found. Surely there are more out there??? FYI, I'm running a M-Audio Delta 44 soundcard, which has given me great results. -- Josh Lawrence http://www.hardbop200.com