Hi Gustin :) > What sound card again? I have been using an RME PCI for a couple of > years, and I don't plan to change. It was an expensive card but it has > certainly been worth it.
The sound card is a TerraTec EWX 24/96, using Envy24. It's also a PCI card and it seems to be fine with Linux. The only bad thing with PCI cards might be, that they are to near to high frequency electric smog, or maybe some cards them self does interfere their own audio signals. For the TerraTec it's only herable at an amp volume that is overkill, but it might have effect to the sound quality. > > I'm using Rosegarden 1.7.1, because 1.7.0 isn't fine. My 64 Studio > > default install is a default install. > > Then use the downgrade mentioned earlier. Going newer is not usually > the best choice. Yep, I'll do so. > 64 Studio is default. > > For a lot of your posts this was not the case. Do not lump those self > imposed problems in with the default install of 64Studio. That's true, but at the moment I'm also not fine with the default 64 Studio. I'm able to run an unstable heavy setup and maybe it will be possible to get a stable, but simple setup. I remember that my old hardware was stable with 64 Studio 2.1rc1, but there were not enough resources to make music, now there are enough resources, but more than enough crashes too. > >> My main machine runs openSUSE, and the JAD distro worked fine on > >> that, > > JAD comes with enlightenment 17 by default and enlightenment 17 isn't > > stable. Or is there a new JAD released, not using enlightenment? > > I have never used these, but I am pretty sure you are not limited to > E17. I would be more than surprised to find out that E17 was the _only_ > choice. JAD is a real Suse, so you can use all Suse repositories. I think there will be no other distro having such a great offer for software like Suse and community repositories for Suse will offer. But you must have much experience and good luck when using them, because they are most times the newest of the new. That must not be bad, e.g. the actual svn of Hydrogen, default for Suse repositories, comes with the patch, that will sync Ardour and Hydrogen when using Jack transport, but for WM/DEs the latest versions can be full of pitfalls. I only wonder that JAD should be without troubles, while the default install comes with e17, a very interesting DE, but also one that isn't stable, so it's a stupid choice for a DAW and nobody can say JAD will be stable by default. You have to change the DE and we were writing about not to change default installs. > If you are building a new version then make a > .deb package out of it. It will supersede your installed version. Of > course if there are a lot of dependencies that need updating, this may > not be an option. I'm not able to build a package for Debian, here Suse has a big advantage, instead of "make install" most times "checkinstall" is fine, not instead of all "make install"s and not when compiling with exotic compilers, but for most cases. "checkinstall" builds a RPM, a package for Suse. > > I'll [...] look for a new BIOS update > > RT apps are really demanding, and can often expose bugs in the BIOS or > in the drivers themselves. I personally experienced this with my laptop. There seems to be very often updates for my BIOS, since today I've got the latest, but didn't run audio applications today. Unfortunately there are no comments about Linux or my hardware for the updates. > > It might be interesting if somebody else has an ASUS M2A-VM HDMI, I > > especially bought the ASUS, because my old mobo is an ASRock, and I > > won't by an ASRock again. > > I have this board and it sucks. It plays DVDs and and xvids for the TV, > running a vanilla install of Windows XP. I can't say something about this board and Windows by own experiences, because I don't have a Windows. I disabled HDMI and I know that Cinelerra is fine with Suse 11.0, but I don't know anything about xvids for TV etc., the integrated graphics sucks, but there's still the PCIex slot for a graphic card. Isn't this board fine with Linux DAW applications or rt kernels? > Quite simply, I gave up trying > to make it work properly. It is the reason I now avoid AMD/ATI. Soon I > can ditch my HP laptop from hell (nVidia chipset, AMD CPU, and two years > of pain that I will not get back). In the face off all this, my 939 > based AMD machines run flawlessly. If buying new there can be only > Intel :) > > It is almost stable under windows too. Low latency work blue screens > it, (memtest came up clean btw). I won't have enough money for a new mobo for a long time, resp. I will spend 50,- EUR for a graphic card, maybe still this year. I don't think I'll get a better mobo including a Linux compatible graphics for around 50,- EUR. My ASRock was fine with Windows but not with Linux and all people say that ASUS should be good for Linux, also someone from the list mentioned this board, because of the price and because I needed better hardware for Linux. Maybe you were the one :D. The problem is, that nobody knows which hardware will be fine with Linux, unless it's oldish hardware, that than might not have enough resources for Linux in the near future or it is Intel hardware and not everybody has the money to buy Intel hardware. > > It seems to be, that my hardware isn't broken and I'm using the > > default > > Yes it is. It is broken by design. Is this the answer to the question above? "Isn't this board fine with Linux DAW applications or rt kernels?" That might also be an explanation for the reason why a Linux compatible controller I bought and gave back by warranty, but with loss of money, wasn't compatible with Linux for my hardware. So I bought hardware that wasn't fine for a Linux DAW and spend again money for hardware that also isn't fine for Linux DAWs? > Best of luck. Thank you :), I hope the latest BIOS update has solved the troubles :S, if not Bill Gates seems to have good luck, resp. if so, it's to consider which way I'll go, if there isn't another way for me, than to use Windows. Bill Gates shouldn't benefit from my suffering. Cheers, Ralf
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