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 > 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? > -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. Yo tb quiero que lo arreglen! lo puedes arreglar haciendo en la consola: "xf86cfg -textmode" y configurando el texto > > -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 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 lo que descubras cuando hagas progresos! saludos des de Barcelona, MarC > > Many thanks!! > > _________________________________________________________________ > Descarga gratis la Barra de Herramientas de MSN > http://www.msn.es/usuario/busqueda/barra?XAPID=2031&DI=1055&SU=http%3A//www.hotmail.com&HL=LINKTAG1OPENINGTEXT_MSNBH > > > > >
