On Thu, October 6, 2005 5:41 pm, Richard Tindall said: [ a whole lot of stuff about linux audio, redhat. planet ccrma etc]
Sorry to do the major snip Rik, just to summarise: Ant has Redhat, with Planet CCRMA audiospecialist rpm's installed over the top. He has had update and config problems. IMHO RH is too old to start with. Planet CCRMA is also compiled for Redhat's successors, Fedora Core 1, 2 & 3. According to the website it is being updated for Fedora 4. If Ant is in a hurry and absolutely wants to use CCRMA, I suggest he backs up his data and installs FC3, then the CCRMA stuff. If he is more patient he could wait for CCRMA to catch up to FC4 and start from there. I hate to push the barrow all the time, and you cynics can take a yawn and hit the kill button now, but I have found gentoo reasonably good for audio stuff. The idea of CCRMA is, of course, to compile some specialist apps and the kernel with specific sound oriented options for low latency, jack audio and so forth. This specialist compilation is what gentoo excels at. However whatever approach is taken, getting professional audio going on linux is a real chore. Many pros give up and go back to windows or a mac. You also mentioned 128 MB of RAM, I assume thats what Ant has. It's likely the whole machine is underpowered. If he wants pro audio its likely he needs more ram, and a well supported sound card. Please also note that there are a set of very good linux audio articles on www.linuxjournal.com, by Dave Phillips. Well worth a read!
