On 09/01/2012 07:45 AM, Tim Munro wrote: > I don't know if anyone has mentioned the problems often encountered > when installing Linux on a shiny, new, state-of-the-art machine. The > hardware will have been designed with Windows in mind, and some of it > may not work out of the box with Linux. And if the machine, like most > new machines, can talk to the outside world only through usb ports (and > perhaps an ethernet connection), all manner of adapters will be > required to use old peripherals. Each of these adapters will also > need to be Linux compatible. > > A time lag frequently exists between the introduction of new hardware > and the availability of suitable Linux drivers. And even when these > drivers or kernel patches become available, a significant time lag can > exist before the changes make it into a distribution. Especially one > as conservative as Slackware, my personal favorite. > > I had been hanging on to a 12-year-old computer, primarily because it > had KDE3 and could run Rosegarden classic. The machine was barely fast > enough to run Rosegarden, took hours to compile Rosegarden, but it did > work, so I was reluctant to replace it. However as the hard drive > filled up with uncompressed music files,
So you add ANOTHER DRIVE to the system???? That's what I do. > it became clear that I would > have no choice but to upgrade. Simply upgrading the hard drive would > have been more trouble than it was worth, as new drives are no longer > compatible with old hardware. I decided to buy a new machine. > > I spent a month or two locating and compiling drivers, tweaking a new > kernel, and modifying favorite applications to run on a 64-bit system. > This was expected, and the new machine mostly works now. I do still > experience occasional instability with the usb keyboard and mouse, > which I blame on a not fully compatible usb gameport adapter that I > need for my outside-temperature display (a thermistor in place of a > joystick). Strange. 64-bit Aptosid installed just fine on my newer motherboard, works fine with all the devices that came on it plus the PCI audio card I added. Only problem I had to wrestle with was figuring out why the system insisted on running my 1920x1080 LED at 1024x768. That problem disappeared when I stopped running the video connection through my very old 4-port KVM switch. Didn't have to modify any apps to run on 64-bit. Which apps are you talking about? -- David gn...@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community http://clanjones.org/david/ http://dancing-treefrog.deviantart.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
