[gentoo-user] New User to Gentoo - Specialized Application
Good Morning Everyone: I am preparing to install Gentoo for a very specialized application -- I have an older P3/400 box that I want to use to run AUDACITY to use it as a digital recording deck on our church sound system. I am planning to use fluxbox, and configure gentoo for a very lightweight application (fluxbox because I have been told it is about the lightest weight gui). I have NEVER done anything with Gentoo, my experience is in FC3/4 and Ubuntu. Can anyone provide hints / pointers / gotchas that I ought to be aware of -- I have the installer manual etc, so I am more looking for hints and tips that I ought to be aware of in trying this. I will also be compiling my own kernel for this -- (That will be a first too) Thanks TIM Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New User to Gentoo - Specialized Application
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 10:20:26 -0500, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Can anyone provide hints / pointers / gotchas that I ought to be aware of -- I have the installer manual etc, so I am more looking for hints and tips that I ought to be aware of in trying this. Follow the handbook faithfully. No matter how convinced you are that there is a better/quicker/easier way of doing something, believe the people that wrote the handbook until you have at least a couple of installs under your belt. -- Neil Bothwick Genius is 99% inspiration and 2% arithmetic signature.asc Description: PGP signature
RE: [gentoo-user] New User to Gentoo - Specialized Application
Arturo: Sorry about that -- -- the sound card is the on the board unit that came with the computer -- the board is an INTEL D850MD http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d850md/ Tim Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14 -Original Message- From: Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 10:31 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New User to Gentoo - Specialized Application -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Good Morning Everyone: I am preparing to install Gentoo for a very specialized application -- I have an older P3/400 box that I want to use to run AUDACITY to use it as a digital recording deck on our church sound system. I am planning to use fluxbox, and configure gentoo for a very lightweight application (fluxbox because I have been told it is about the lightest weight gui). You may wish to analyze different kernels for this matter. Get into the audacity mailing lists, too. I have NEVER done anything with Gentoo, my experience is in FC3/4 and Ubuntu. You will have no problems if you follow the alsa gentoo guide. and tips that I ought to be aware of in trying this. I will also be compiling my own kernel for this -- (That will be a first too) I repeat: check out specialized kernels for low-latency in audio applications. What recording hardware are you going to use? what mixers? mics? I can help off-list with that. I own a recording studio and use audacity, too. I even written a Cooledit Project import plugin for Audacity :) - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - www.buanzo.com.ar Consultor en Seguridad Informatica / Dominio Digital TV - Da FOSS man! KTP Consultores - info AT ktpconsultores.com.ar Romper un sistema de seguridad los acerca tanto a ser hackers como el encender autos puenteando los convierte en ingenieros automotrices. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDlF0kAlpOsGhXcE0RAiD9AJsER6VatELbc/qMJpYZA4X8roZ8dwCfcbqG H7AUMx4SR24xQw+zB/lHb2o= =Vpxn -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New User to Gentoo - Specialized Application
On 12/5/05, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Good Morning Everyone: I am preparing to install Gentoo for a very specialized application -- I have an older P3/400 box that I want to use to run AUDACITY to use it as a digital recording deck on our church sound system. I am planning to use fluxbox, and configure gentoo for a very lightweight application (fluxbox because I have been told it is about the lightest weight gui). You may wish to analyze different kernels for this matter. Get into the audacity mailing lists, too. I have NEVER done anything with Gentoo, my experience is in FC3/4 and Ubuntu. You will have no problems if you follow the alsa gentoo guide. and tips that I ought to be aware of in trying this. I will also be compiling my own kernel for this -- (That will be a first too) I repeat: check out specialized kernels for low-latency in audio applications. What recording hardware are you going to use? what mixers? mics? I can help off-list with that. I own a recording studio and use audacity, too. I even written a Cooledit Project import plugin for Audacity :) Tim, You might also pick through the archives of this list, I seem to remember some discussion on low-latency kernels and audio recording specifically a while back. -Mike -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Windows takes something useful and turns it into junk. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] New User to Gentoo - Specialized Application
Can anyone provide hints / pointers / gotchas that I ought to be aware of -- I have the installer manual etc, so I am more looking for hints and tips that I ought to be aware of in trying this. I will also be compiling my own kernel for this -- (That will be a first too) For multitrack recordings you want to use ALSA/jackd/ardour/jamin on top of a low latency kernel. I even recommend the linux audio user list: http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/subscribelau.php Best regards ce -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
