On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:13:21 +0200 Ismael Valladolid Torres <ismael(a)sambara.org> wrote: I've not had a problem with it in the past few years. {2 nvidia cards, a matrox 450, an ati radeon 7200 and 2 different 3dfx ~300s {one with tv in, one without}} I have had problems with modelines and this "frigging" monitor. {No problems whatsoever with my lcd.} I didn't have problem 1 with RH9 {once I set my CMOS back to the defaults. It even identified the monitor {Which is something I couldn't do}} {'Course, I already have all the settings for Debian saved... It's just a matter of copying the config files.}

Erik Steffl <steffl(a)bigfoot.com> wrote: I usually keep binaries {debs} and config files {sources list pointed at the second partition... most of the /etc directory} on a second partition. {I use cfdisk to format things... I've not yet had it eat a partition other than the one I'm targeting.} I generally copy the home directory and whatever other stuff I've changed there as well. {you can automate this} After the intial install and configuration all you had to do to reinstall to a pristine state is boot the {there's a really small Debian install distribution that seems almost failsafe to me {installs on anything}} install disk, run the install and after the restart, when the installer runs dselect. you can log in on a second terminal, cp the appropriate files and just run dselect from there. Takes an hour or so at the outside {depending on what you have installed ...keep specific debs {just copy the /var/cache/apt/archives directory to a directory after you do an online install} and you can just select everything in dselect}. You can afford to take a few risks this way. {Which I do all too often} It also helps to recreate the install on a second disk or partition {8o gig disks are ~100.oo ...an install only takes a few gigs.} ...You can put all of the relevant systems into lilo {Debians install will do this automatically} and just boot another system should you happen to munge things. If you use pluggable drives you can set up specific system environments for specific uses {only need the first few gigs on the drive} ...Linux {unlike windows} travels really well. You can generally switch drives between systems. If you save a copy of the config files on a partition it becomes a simple matter to move a system between machines.

On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 12:03:36AM +1000, Chris Share wrote: I got a 2in 2out edirol/roland midi interface, that Just WorkedTM, I plugged it in, a light came on and some mode devices appeared in my MIDI router app. Compared to win/mac installation it was amazing. Run, dont walk, to planet ccrma: http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ Dunno about 3 - Steve

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Chris Share wrote: Check the ALSA soundcard matrix. Any card that has a MIDI interface and also is on the ALSA list will work. I have an M-Audio Delta 1010LT and it works fine. I believe the CCRMA distro takes care of this, no? <opinion> Ardour does not work and play well with others. I don't keep up with CVS but the beta2 version I have isn't very flexable. Granted, it's a good DAW but it doesn't work with MIDI too well, so you can pretty much rule out using soft synths in any sort of sync. It's also supposed to send MTC for possible sync to other apps. I cannot get this to work at all, in fact, I can't get it to see my MIDI interface. Rosegarden's MIDI is great. The UI isn't Logic or Cubase but it's familliar and works. With the Rosegarden 4 tarball from the website, forget about any audio work. After reading that there is a mysterious bug with LADSPA plugins and the FFTW library I had to uninstall any app that relies on FFTW just to get Rosegarden not to crash, locking my entire system. Audacity is excellent for small multitrack projects. It's stable and has lots of good editing functions. It doesn't have a proper mixer though, so it's pretty much "press record and all the inputs on your sound card start recording." It's great for overdubs. The last small track I started was using Rosegarden to sequence Hydrogen (a drum machine, AddZynSubFx (an additive/subtractive synthesizer) and my external MIDI synth (a Korg N5) I mixed the whole thing down with Audacity. It's not done yet. I made another small track with Ardour, singing, looping and a piano and I like it but I kept wanting to use soft synths and sync to a drum machine but couldn't. It's here: http://lee.fallingforward.net/flying_flying_theOlderWeGet.ogg </opinion> -l[e^2] ------------------------------ http://www.fallingforward.net/ people experimenting with music, art and technology