Anyone have any experiences to report on how well it detects various pro sound and midi cards? Specifically I'm interested in the Delta 66, Gina, and Edirol USB midi cards. Thanks Iain Andres Cabrera wrote: > Hi Iain, > > I recently downloaded dynebolic, and I found it pretty cool. The kernel > seems fairly well tuned, and though I haven't given it extensive > testing, it was able to do jack at 5ms latency with the onboard > soundcard, so that's a good sign (I didn't try it for a long time but it > did something like 5 minutes or so without xruns, which is a good sign) > It has the option to 'nest' either on a hard drive or a usb flash drive, > so even though csound5 doesn't come with it, you might manage to run it > from there. I haven't tried the nesting, though.... > Dynebolic is not that big, so maybe if you mount the iso image, then add > a directory, and then burn that... Does anyone know if that is possible, > or does that mess up the live cd? > > Andr??s > > On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 00:26, Iain Duncan wrote: > >>I'd like to be able to make an iso of a complete install including my >>own software and data for csound, with the aim being a back up for gigs >>should something go wrong. So ideally this would: >> >>- detect any likely sound card properly >>- ditto for midi >>- have a low latency kernel >>- have jack & some other misc alsa stuff >>- create a reasonably sized ram disk in case I need to make some last >>minute adjustments at the show. >> >>I'd like to have the ability to quickly make a new version before each >>show, so I want to be able to easily drop in some of my custom gig >>software, along with csound5 plus my data and samples, and burn the cd. >>Csound should be able to either use data files burnt on the cd, or >>stored on the ramdisk in case adjustments were needed. >> >>There seem to be plethora of live cd options. Can anyone suggest the >>best course for the above? I normally use gentoo, but for the gig cd I >>don't really care what it is as long as it's fast and clean and easy to >>make. ( Ie a quick task that is done in a half hour before a show as a >>back up. ) I don't even need xwindows really, just booting into runlevel >>3 is fine, so if the live cd or utility allows that customization that >>would be cool too. Being able to run a small LAN or vncserver would be >>slick as well so that multiple machines can share the same monitor. >> >>Thanks >>Iain >> >> > > > >
