Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] SuSE 8.0
From: pma (Armstrong.Peter.DMA_AT_aya.yale.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 15 2002 - 01:08:26 EEST
Jorn,
Thanks for your thoughts! (And I'll try LAU.)
Peter
Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
>
>
> pma wrote:
> >
> > Dear LAD folks:
> >
> > I see SuSE 8.0 is coming out soon. Any tips
> > (ectasy, terror, ...) on its likely performance
> > with respect to the RME Hammerfall and ALSA?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > PA
>
> alsa 0.9.0beta12 worked out-of-the-box as default sound driver -
> configuration was completely automatical.
> works nice, except i seem to have a little problem recording atm,
> but that might as well be my cabling - i've been rebuilding almost
> everything.
>
> no hammerfall here, but since it is just another alsa driver, it
> should work just as well.
>
> one very cool feature of their config tool yast2 is raid creation -
> it took me about 5 minutes to have a raid0 scsi pair with reiserfs
> ready to go. quite a nifty setup for hd recording. spent EUR100 on
> ebay and now i've got 18gigs worth of disk space with >50mb/sec
> sustained transfer rate :)
>
> all in all, a nice distro, if a little bloated. if you're a
> pssionate do-it-yourselfer, i'd recommend against it, but if you
> want a quick start and can tolerate excessive eye-candy, suse80
> might be for you.
>
> best,
>
> jörn
>
> btw, i think such inquiries should go to linux-audio-user. imho.
>
> --
> Watch out where the huskies go and don't you eat
> the yellow snow !
> - Frank Zappa
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