Larry, I'm not clued up on your specific computer, but would purchasing an external soundcard be a more economically sound proposal than selling the whole laptop?
Regards, Andy On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:41:57 +0000, "Larry Lines" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What laptops do users on this list have ubuntu studio running > successfully? By successful I mean running jackd and rosegarden and > ardour. Specify 32 or 64 bit version of ubuntu studio. > > The reason I am asking this is I have a Dell Inspiron 1501, Turion Dual > Core 64 bit, 2 GB of RAM. I specifically got this computer for sound > and graphics using linux. I should have sent it back when I found that > there was a kernel bug which I had a chance to do. I could link a dozen > references to this stupid thing that had us Dell 1501 owners installing > distros and not being able to get the installation even started without > pci=nomsi and a dozen other ineffective kernel parameters. > > But this thing is essentially useless for Linux sound. Jackd will NOT > run. In Fedora, Gentoo, Ubuntu and now Ubuntu Studio, it just > essentially won't run. I think it has something to do with the original > kernel bug, but I have no way of knowing, because I essentially get > non-answers from any of the lists on this. It appears that no one that > got a Dell 1501 ever wanted to get any of this working. I have set up > working Linux studios on a lot of other hardware and this has never > happened. > > So now I am thinking of selling this stupid thing and cutting my losses > and moving on to another pc based laptop that other people are using to > run linux sound. So give me some examples of working laptops with > ubuntu studio. > > Larry Lines > > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
