Subject: [ Re: [linux-audio-user] Demudi looking good, soundcard advice?] *corrected*
From: MarC (marc_contrib_AT_ramonvinyes.es)
Date: Fri Oct 15 2004 - 00:34:10 EEST
apologies. I wanted to answer the last email privately in Spanish but I
didn't know that the default reply-to was addressed to the list.
I make a short translation of the wothful points I commented right there:
to repair the bug in the Demudi's keyboard of Languages different from
English:
xf86cgf -textmode and select "keyboard".
and also I said that they 've already released the 1.2.0 version of
Demudi, which works better than the betas and that there's good support
on the agnula user list at www.agnula.org.
that's it
attached mail follows:
en el anterior email he cometido algunos errores... lo siento. los
corrijo. ade+ se me ha colado en la lista en español...
Alejandro Lopez wrote:
> Chaps,
>
> Just installed Demudi, sorry I can't remember versions, it's some beta
> that came out something like 2-3 months ago which was the first to
> merge Debian + music studio on the same CD (requiring one installation
> only).
>
instalate la 1.2.0 que acaba de salir (aunque de aqui poco dicen que van
a sacar la 1.2.1)
> Generally, I would recommend the distribution for an easy install
> (I've not used it yet), I'd like to make a couple of comments in case
> anyone is interested.
>
> -My PC won't boot from CD-ROM. By browsing the directory structure, I
> kind of guessed I had at least a couple of choices for DOS: booting
> from a rawrite2'd floppy or run loadlin. Fair enough, there's a
> vmlinuz file there as well as several .bin floppy images. But: loadlin
> is not included in the CD image, not it is rawrite2. Not a big deal
> for me as I had several other distros handy but not elegant either. In
> the same directory where these images reside, there's a little text
> file which lists loadlin and rawrite2: should read "loadlin", reads
> "lodlin" (in case anyone would like report this for future versions).
>
no configuraste la bios para arrancar des de CD?
en todo caso, si lo comentas en la lista de usuarios de agnula
(->www.agnula.org) te diran que pasa:
> -I was not able to select English language with a Spanish keyboard
> layout (I'm Spanish). You are supposed to select both in one go, the 2
> different options in the menu (that you can see if you select back
> somewhere in the middle of the process) seem to be related and didn't
> work as such distinct options for me.
es un error de configuracion de Agnula. Haz un bug-report en la pagina
www.agnula.org o envia tb un email en la lista de usuarios como hice yo.
lo puedes arreglar haciendo en la consola:
"xf86cfg -textmode" y configurando el teclado
>
> -At one point, I went back and selected Spanish (for everything, that
> is), next step was repartitioning my hard disk which is inherently a
> dangerous operation. The translation of the partitioning software to
> Spanish was so poor (wrong actually) that I was scared to repartition
> in Spanish. Went back to English so I could understand what the
> software would do with my hard disk but now my keyboard layout doesn't
> match. I'm planning installing to a different machine I imported from
> Germany, so I'll have the same layout problem (I'd rather not choose
> German language to repartition my disk in order to have the keyboard
> properly installed).
>
> -From there on, the installation was as smooth as one could have asked
> for. All my hardware was detected and installed automagically
> including graphics card, monitor, mouse, sound card (ALSA), network
> card, modem, CD-ROM.
>
> So generally I'd say it's a very easy to install distribution, and
> definitely a huge improvement over the classic "2 installation steps"
> approach that all the other music distributions have or used to have.
> I'm very pleased with regards to that.
>
> The only other thing is I may need to buy a decent soundcard for this
> PC. It should have a GM synth (nothing special since I guess I'll be
> using soft synths anyway but I don't want to run a synth just to write
> a couple of arrangements), one stereo output and one stereo input both
> with good overall audio quality. Seemingly, the current trend is
> towards either USB 2.0, firewire or PCI. A colleague has just told me
> that USB 2.0 is supported by the Linux kernel starting from the latest
> version (2.6 I think?) only. Since music distributions are based on
> other distributions, chances are that they now run the 2.4 kernel or
> maybe older. Does that make sense or am I talking complete b*ll*cks?
> Also, this friend has heard about drops happening with audio over USB,
> but apparently this was on a Mac and the USB device was a hard disk
> rather than a soundcard. Still, he seems to think that USB 2.0 is not
> as good option as firewire for audio. (Which reminds me of SCSI vs IDE
> drives for audio a few years back, yes SCSI was the serious option for
> a couple of years but it was an 80% more expensive as well, and
> shortly afterwards IDE started to go "fast enough" and cheaper.) Is
> firewire better? Is it more expensive? Also, how does it compare to
> PCI? Lastly, if any of you has bought a soundcard (recently so the
> card is still in production) which is reasonably similar to what I
> need (wouldn't mind if it's slightly better, say 4 mono inputs and 4
> mono outputs or something) and has succeed with having it running
> under a Linux based music studio, I'd be grateful if you drop a line.
estoy exactamente en el mismo punto que tu. yo tengo una Creative Audigy
(60€) que para grabar es correcta(para maquetas) pero no puedes
monitorizar a tiempo real. tb quiero dar el paso a una targeta mejor y
no se por donde empezar teniendo en cuenta el soporte limitado en Linux.
te agredeceria muchisimo si me comentas al final por cual te decides.
saludos des de Barcelona,
MarC
>
> Many thanks!!
>
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