Folks, Here are my results/impressions after trying Fedora 6. Here's the machine ------------------ AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ 4 GB RAM MSI K8N Neo4 SLI board NVidia 6600 Viewsonic VP211b 21.3" TFT screen Fedora 6 x86_64 Fedora stock Linux kernel (no real-time additions) KDE desktop In short -------- I got jack going using qjackctl, then I can fire up ZynAddSubFx (hey, no joke about heaven and hell fire here !), plug in the Axiom 25 and record a few lines using Seq24. Even Ardour 2 seems to accept some multitracking, but default colours are not that nice (can be customized I think). Jamin shows up nicely but I haven't tried it yet. LADSPA plugins works. Hydrogen works. Haven't tried Fluidsynth yet. Warning: I don't know what xruns are and undoubtly I would if they'd pop up and interfere with proper operation. But so far I haven't seen any. How it was done --------------- 1) Installed Fedora 6 x86_64, specifying/adding KDE desktop in the way. 2) Got NVidia beta driver (and added livna) rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm yum --enable livna-testing install kmod-nvidia Finally I get real 1600x1200 resolution. SuSE 10.0 couldn't do it. I gather there's now a open source Nvidia driver by the splash screen. Is this made in collaboration with Nvidia ? 3) Adjusted access to priorities by adding this to /etc/security/limits.conf: # Added for audio * - rtprio 99 * - nice -10 * - memlock 4000000 BTW, I read that the above is an insecure configuration. So, some finetuning could be done with that. There's an active Fedora Firewall, as well as SELinux, so maybe this is not as critical as it sounds. I'd appreciate any input on this. 4) Added CCRMA rpm -Uvh http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetccrma/6/x86… 5) Using kyum (added package right after install), got a handful of packages. 6) Have some fun, hopefully, and then some. Various notes ------------- With these settings I did not see any problems so far with the little things I did in playing and recording mainly with qarecord. A note on Beryl: it looks nice, with the windows looking like wet slices of bread thrown in the wind, but couldn't try it with the audio stuff as of today. I have the impression that it'd work. kyum is nice since it's quite straightforward. It's easier now to get audio going. I wouldn't be surprised that in the very near future there'll be a merge of CCRMA in such a way that it'll be a seemless integration to Fedora. Is it me or is the sound better ? Previously I was using on the same machine CCRMA in 32-bits mode. Subjectively I now find that Zyn sounds and their reverbs are sounding richer. Could this bit a by-product of 64 bits processing ? Pet peeves ---------- - No Rezound in sight at the moment - will have to give a try at compiling it - Fedora obstinates itself at trying to configure some eth2/sky2 device which has the net effect of throwing the boot sequence in text mode since that's not possible. - Beryl has worked _once_ (eg 'beryl-manager' from a console) but launching it later after reboot does not work. - Some minor issue with init of the eth0 device but this could very well have to do with the MSI K8N Neo4 board itself since SuSE 10.0 had a similar problem. Hoping this was somewhat interesting, Cheers, Al