On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:29:17 -0500,
aljordan(a)maine.rr.com
<aljordan(a)maine.rr.com> wrote:
Hello,
I upgraded my chip and motherboard to an AMD 64 based system. I\'ve installed Fedora
Core 3 x86_64 but it seems that I have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get audio apps
to compile that I didn\'t have to go through on the FC3 32 bit distribution.
I\'ve decided to give up and try another release after the troubles I am facing
compiling Rosegarden.
Is anyone using a 64 bit distribution that they are happy with? If not, is there a
particularly good standard distribution that people are using for DAW apps? I will be
using mostly sequencing, softsynths, and mixdown apps such as Rosegarden, Swami, and
QSynth.
I need to stay with the 2.6 kernel for hardware support.
Gentoo seems to work very well. A lot of the audio apps get a bit
buggy. Not sure if this is caused by 64 bit incompatabilities or not.
I am running Fedora Core 3 test 1 on my x86_64, but I use the standard
2.6.10 kernel with the lsm patch. Hammerfall hdsp works well (except
the hdsp_mixer shows bad levels, but i only use that to unmute the
card so I dont care about that). It works well for me, except the
recent crashes which are weird. I dont even know what I changed,
becasue before last week my machine was running fine...
-thewade