Arnold Krille wrote: What Arnold said. I've had a few different notebooks, and none have had what I'd call good audio output. They're all fine for watching YouTube videos or playing games or Skyping, but incredibly annoying for any kind of mixing work. Obvious little background ticking, low-level hum, and other pollution of the output signal (and it's not a Linux-specific problem -- the same noise appears when using approved drivers under a vendor-supplied version of Windows). I'm currently thinking of trying one of these out: http://www.maudio.co.uk/products/en_gb/Transit-main.html They're cheap enough to consider as part of the necessary equipment for serious work on the go, I think, but not quite at the "I'll buy one just to see if it works at all" level. Does anyone here have experience with it (or similar modestly priced little USB outboard cards)? I'm particularly interested to know if such a card would in any way push the use of rosegarden+jack+timidity on an Asus Eee from close-but-no-cigar to the point of usability. -- Frank Wales [frank(a)limov.com]

Am Mittwoch, 28. Mai 2008 schrieb Joshua Boyd: Well, but the "Behringer" part makes me feel _very_ uncomfortable about it. Apart from the fact that I don't know wether it works with linux, a friend of mine had one and soon gave it to his co-guitarist as a cheap headphone-amp. Its not really worth its money. Even if its cheap... Disclaimer: Most of the Behringer-stuff is just crap but some is quite good for the price. Which still leaves it to be crap compared to the originals they copied... If you really can't afford more, then it has an appealing price-quality-ratio. In our church almost all the equipment is Behringer (the old series where they where kind of good). But if you lean more to the quality side and want to rather buy a real device you should stay away from their products... Enough said, the next one asking will be directed to my various Behringer-bashing-posts on the archive. Have fun, Arnold -- visit http://www.arnoldarts.de/ --- Hi, I am a .signature virus. Please copy me into your ~/.signature and send me to all your contacts. After a month or so log in as root and do a "rm -rf /". Or ask your administrator to do so...

I just got myself an Lenovo R61. the fundamental reason was due to the lack of cardbus laptops out there, they are about but this issue greatly reduced the pool to choose from. i'm very happy with the r61, i use the rme multiface so i don't know much about the intel card but initially i found it hard to get good performance from it. also, there is a large amount of resourses out there for thinkpad laptops and linux. this helps in the short and long term. if you are coming from mac, pre-installed ubuntu is definately a bonus. good luck to anyone trying to choose a laptop. its a terribly hard decision and world of comprimises.

Il giorno mar, 27/05/2008 alle 23.00 -0400, cdr ha scritto: The Dell M1330 has a HDMI port and is available with a X3100 Intel graphics controller (or a NVidia 8400). I haven't tried it but according to the Xorg list it should work (video only, no audio at the moment). If you live in the US or in some European countries you can order the M1330n, preloaded with Ubuntu Linux. Note that the X3100 is pretty slow (it's often slower than previous Intel integrated cards) and its drivers are sometimes unstable in 3D, so go for it only if you don't care about 3D (compiz works reasonably well though), need good multi-monitor support and can't stand proprietary drivers. Also, its HDA audio (which it's the same as my Dell Vostro 1400) is almost totally unusable with JACK...