Nick Rout wrote:
No need to update the bios usually. The linux kernel deals with the hard
drive, the bios is only involved in the boot sequence. Once it hands off
to the kernel, all is sweet. HOWEVER I would make a /boot partition at the
start of the drive to ensure that the kernel and grub are always within
reach of what the bios can see.
"$df -h" agrees with bios 'autodetect hdd', that <2GB is all he gets.
Practically, how recently have you seen /boot lost by a bios?
Is 200MB enough, to allow for some kernel variant options?
Rosegarden should just work once you have the midi hardware going. Its a
while since I did it and i have rebuilt my desktop. I'll fire up the
laptop later, i had it playing our electric piano at one stage. I don't
think there should be any "compatibility" list, as midi is just midi
AFAIK.
That's what I expected. Rosegarden was running, but we couldn't pick
anything up off the midi port (on the soundcard). Jack was showing
plenty of relevant connections - mostly we're still mastering the s/w.
Perhaps it's ready to be made to run; lsmod looked pretty good.
Is he doing midi through a midi port on the soundcard
yes
or does he have a
separate midi port? I have a usb midiman single port midi interface for
the laptop (http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Uno-main.html).
The alsa pages should indicate whether there is midi support for his
soundcard (http://alsa-project.org
great links etc:
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Ensoniq&card=.&chip=ES1371%2C+ES1372%2C+ES1373%2C+CT5880+%28ES1373%29&module=ens1371
(iirc) + http://sound.condorow.net
the next Gentoofest.
I can answer that, not until November unfortunately I have other
commitments and Rob has a fence to build before he is allowed to play.
Cheers. I might try him on Ubuntu in the meantime then. The packages
list there is good, and I have Rosegarden running on it now. But no
sound output yet:
"Rosegarden 1.0 - AlsaDriver - alsa-lib version 1.0.8
JackDriver::initialiseAudio - JACK server not running"
How's that started? (Ant had a menu icon for it.)
Cheers, Rik
