Hallo, Matthew Yee-King hat gesagt: // Matthew Yee-King wrote: > > Maybe I really should change, at least my freshly installed laptop... > aha - is this why you were asking about usb audio cards a while > back? which one did you get in the end? Yes. I did get an Aver Travelmate 225XC (with Mobile Celeron 1.3 and Intel graphics/sound) and apart from the Intel onboard sound it is a really nice laptop, almost everything supported on Linux. I can really recommend this notebook, it is also very quiet as long as the DVD/CDRW drive isn't spinning. Regarding the USB-sound I ordered an Edirol UA-20. It is a bit above 200 EUR (239,-) and it doesn't have digital-in. But I have S/PDIF at home, so I hope, I won't miss this. I also ordered a Phil Rees 16-Faderbox (169,-), which is, what I need the UA-20's midi input for. Both items haven't arrived yet. I hope, they do on monday, which is my work-free day in the week, so I can install and test it. Currently I'm using a Debian unstable system as it is in stock on ftp.debian.org. I will LL-patch the kernel a bit later, but currently I don't have net access at home with the notebook, becaue I still have a 10Mbit network here, using coax cables. But the Travelmate only has the modern network connections, like, what's it called, "twisted pair"? So I need to update my home network as well, or, like I did until now, abuse the internet connection at the work office. (BTW: for transporting the laptop between home and work, I found this to be a damn cool solution: http://www.ortlieb.de/_prod.php?&lang=en&produkt=Office-Bag ;) ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
