On Wednesday 07 June 2006 14:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 09:47:13AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This IS NOT what was asked! > > It may be that it is the only answer! > > After playing for a week, I think ubuntu is probably a good solution for > > someone needing a wife and 2.3 kids. IMHO it is not a good solution for > > people wanting to 'work' their computers. eg Q: I want to do advanced > > sound card making out A: Not many people have multiple sound cards ... eg > > this question > > If you want to do complicated things, you should be prepared to take > responsibility for shouldering the burden of dealing with the issues > that arise. And your throwaway example actually demonstrates this > perfectly. > > The reason few people have multiple sound cards is that multiple sound > cards are generally more trouble than they are worth. Sound cards have > AD/DA converters which are synced to clocks. Unless the clocks of each card > are synchronised to one another, anything you record or playback may > well be out of phase with what the other card is recording/playing back. > > The standard way of dealing with this is to have sound interfaces with > multiple inputs and outputs all synchronised to one clock.
Mark absolutely, but what I was trying to do was say 'I know SuSE does this all easily' (and it DOES), but don't be such a baby duck, try seriously to use ubuntu. Well on many fronts, and I am still trying, SuSE is much easier than ubuntu EG The MB sound card (that won't drive a speaker) or a SB (that will) as the primary sound card, and Skype works fine on it's own card, it really does not cohabitate well. EG the run levels. EG /etc/ld.so.conf I think ubuntu is great for 'users' who don't want to push the edges. I struggled to build mythtv. I was asked (sic) why not download mythtv. I wanted to *build* mythtv, not have and use mythtv. QED I'm not an orniary user. My last ubuntu task is to mount a mtdblock device as type jffs2. That will be interesting! And my final parting <smile> > The reason few people have multiple sound cards is that multiple sound > cards are generally more trouble than they are worth. Is because they are not using SuSE or similar. There it's trivial, repeatable, reliable (and complicated if you peek under the hood) James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
