Hi all, I am new to Rivendell and am trying to evaluate it for a local community radio station I'm helping get started.
I have a generic older home-built PC (gigabyte MB, 1.5 GB RAM, 300 GB HD, built-in sound card) I've used with various distros of Linux, and Windows. Works fine. The sound card is the one built into the motherboard (VIA 8237). I know it's consumer-grade, but for evaluating Rivendell, it's fine. I installed each of the following Rivendell Distros (clean install each time, use entire disk): - CentOS (Paravel) - SUSE - RRAbuntu ALSA recognized the built-in sound card without manual effort and played sound just fine with all of the distros. BUT: - Paravel's Rivendell did not automatically utilize the sound card, nor was it available within Rivendell to "choose" as an option. - The SUSE Rivendell did not automatically utilize the sound card, nor was it available within Rivendell to "choose" as an option. - RRAbuntu was the clear winner on this important aspect right off the bat. It utilized the built-in sound card and configured Rivendell to use it. Sample audio also made it easy to know I have a functioning Rivendell system. THANK YOU! So, I'd like to make two suggestions to the developers that should attract WAY more users to Rivendell: 1) Don't make users fight so hard to simply recognize and utilize a sound card! For goodness sake, this software is about playing audio! 2) The Operations Guide is excellent, but doesn't help a new user with the *sequence* of how to set up their content, users, etc. Please consider a short guide / tutorial to help a new user configure their Rivendell for the first time. These 2 things would help grow the Rivendell user base quite nicely! Thanks for your consideration, [email protected]
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