sounds wonderful! thanks so much for your hard work... im particularly pleased to hear about the low latency kernel and about the graphical setup tool for sound and USB detection. i did try to report the bug with the USB quattro but i can't seem to get through to qa.mandrakesoft.com.... :-( bw m~ Austin Acton wrote: > Hey, > I just wanted to thank you all again for the great response I got to my > totally uncalled-for survey. The volunteers and the staff at Mandrake > have taken your requests to heart! > > We have a small task force packaging all the rpms you've requested. > Most are done, and hopefully the rest will be finished by 9.1 release > time (two months away). I gotta say, ardour took me two DAYS to package > in an easy-to-use form, but I think it's pretty good. We've added a lot > of alsa and jack utils that weren't there before, some you hadn't even > asked for. > > Also, we've prepared a multimedia kernel with pre-emptable, low-latency, > capabilities, and o_stream patches. It may be hard to get the company > to include this in the 'main' distro, but it will definitely be in the > contributor's section (that's where most of the audio software is > anyway). > > As well, the installer team (Pixel) has added full USB audio detection, > and a graphical setup tool for soundcards and sound system (OSS/alsa) to > the installer. It's a bit unpolished as of today, but we've got two > months to perfect it. > > Beta 3 was a bit rocky, but if any of you have a spare machine or a > spare partition, I'd invite you to try beta 4 when it's released (two > weeks maybe?). Should be a multimedia masterpiece. :-) > > Again, thanks for your help. It really counts. > Let me know if you have any more questions or requests. > > Austin > -- iriXx www.iriXx.org copyleft: creativity, technology and freedom? info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.copyleftmedia.org.uk _ ( ) ascii ribbon against html email X / \ cat /dev/sda1 > /dev/dsp *** stopping make sense ***
