Kevin Donnelly wrote: > Suppose I decide to replace the > round wheels on my Citroen with square ones, and then go to the garage to > complain that it bumps a lot when I drive along - what do you think they'll > say? >
Issues like MIDI jitter depends to trouble by vanilla installs because the Linux real-time kernel still is experimental and not fine with every hardware, but even if there should be trouble because of changing the vanilla install, this is the way to use a computer. If everything is fine for you that is good news for Linux. Why don't you share your experiences? Please try to understand that needs might differ. If you don't need to record 6 hours sustained (btw. I also don't need to do this) you won't run into trouble like someone would do, when trying to record a Wagner opera by using Linux. It doesn't help to claim everything should be all right, while it isn't. I'm using 64 Studio, because I just do it at home, just for myself. IMO there's a lot of work to do, to make Linux audio better, e.g. the problems with SMPTE, no high quality real-time re-sampling does mean, that you can't use SMPTE and this does mean that you can't do "complete" film sync beyond home usage ... "cord films" not videos might be uninteresting for you, but it's interesting for me. So what should users do, that try a lot and reach borders by using Linux? Be quiet? Or write reports? Your analogy should be that I try to replace squares by wheels ;) ... a nice analogy because squares on audio also have got a special effect. Okay, I'm writing to much email ... what would be the impression of a rookie when there are no mails on the archive? > how widespread *are* his problems? I know people from this and other Linux lists now using Windows and MacOS, because of exactly the same troubles I've got, btw. someone from this list e.g. has two USB MIDI devices and reported that he has got trouble with one device, while the other one is fine to LAD. I'm missing such reports on this list, maybe next week you'll be the one buying the USB device that won't work. > Who else is having them? I don't remember a loud chorus of "me too"s to > *any* of his posts. > Are you kidding? Even this month there is an issue because of Qtractor. Okay, for you Qtractor might be a square, because it's not from the 64 Studio vanilla install, but keep in mind that Linux is a flexible OS and e.g. installing KDE shouldn't (and don't) break 64 Studio. > Incidentally, I believe Robin said that the .31 kernel wasn't really ready > for > use yet. Do you think there might be a connection between that and your > install difficulties??? > Hm, you are right, I do run uname -r 2.6.29-1-multimedia-amd64 and replied to someone using the latest kernel, that he needs another rtirq script in addition, I guess this is the reason that the package 64studio is broken ;) in the repository. When there were no jack packages in the repository, something that several users reported this was, because I was thinking to change something for my vanilla install ;) ... Pardon, I know that my style and amount of mails might be ... hmmmmm ... but seldom the contents are OT. If nobody would use a beta, stable releases needs much longer before they could be released (btw. I always tell people to use this beta because it's fine). Don't worry, if just one user does write 64 Studio isn't good, nobody would care, IMO a serious problem could be that there are to less users for Linux audio and that we have to less forums, wikis etc. and mails on this list. Just my 2 cents! Ralf _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
