On 09/02/2012 05:04 AM, Tim Munro wrote: > david wrote: > > So you add ANOTHER DRIVE to the system???? That's what I do. > > Yes, I could have picked up an old drive somewhere and stuffed it into > the box. I even considered picking up an IDE to SATA adapter so that I > could attempt to use a newer drive, but the bottom line was that the > machine itself was hopelessly out of date. A 550MHz Pentium III > processor with 256M of ram (apparently HP's upper limit for that > motherboard) is hardly sound-barrier stuff these days. Rather than > pouring more money into a lost cause, I decided to upgrade.
That makes sense. Also, I tried a set of IDE<>SATA adapters. They didn't work. > > Didn't have to modify any apps to run on 64-bit. Which apps are you > > talking about? > > The first example that comes to mind is an obscure program called > "Rosegarden" and how it deals with library paths. On a Slackware > system, 32-bit stuff typically goes into /usr/lib, while 64-bit stuff > ends up in /usr/lib64. Because I had built and installed DSSI and > LADSPA from source, they ended up in the 64-bit library where > Rosegarden couldn't find them. My initial workaround was to place > symlinks in the 32-bit library, but eventually I got around to patching > src/sound/DSSIPluginFactory.cpp and src/sound/LADSPAPluginFactory.cpp > with more complete path info. I run Rosegarden on my 32-bit and 64-bit Debian systems and never had to change anything. But I didn't build DSSI or LADSPA from source. Didn't have to. > Other programs that needed adjustment were mostly things that I had > written years ago that contained snippets of truly ancient code. Back > in the 16-bit days, for instance, we made assumptions about the size of > an "int" that are no longer valid. Yup. I'm not developer. Wouldn't that happen with the shift to 32-bit, anyway? -- 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
