Jorn, Thanks for your thoughts! (And I'll try LAU.)
Peter J�rn Nettingsmeier wrote: > > > pma wrote: > > > > Dear LAD folks: > > > > I see SuSE 8.0 is coming out soon. Any tips > > (ectasy, terror, ...) on its likely performance > > with respect to the RME Hammerfall and ALSA? > > > > Thanks, > > PA > > alsa 0.9.0beta12 worked out-of-the-box as default sound driver - > configuration was completely automatical. > works nice, except i seem to have a little problem recording atm, > but that might as well be my cabling - i've been rebuilding almost > everything. > > no hammerfall here, but since it is just another alsa driver, it > should work just as well. > > one very cool feature of their config tool yast2 is raid creation - > it took me about 5 minutes to have a raid0 scsi pair with reiserfs > ready to go. quite a nifty setup for hd recording. spent EUR100 on > ebay and now i've got 18gigs worth of disk space with >50mb/sec > sustained transfer rate :) > > all in all, a nice distro, if a little bloated. if you're a > pssionate do-it-yourselfer, i'd recommend against it, but if you > want a quick start and can tolerate excessive eye-candy, suse80 > might be for you. > > best, > > j�rn > > btw, i think such inquiries should go to linux-audio-user. imho. > > -- > Watch out where the huskies go and don't you eat > the yellow snow ! > - Frank Zappa
