On 10/19/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sorry about the problems with your systems. > > OK, so I've been messing with an AMD64 for maybe 5-6 weeks, probably > half time. It's hard for me to really recommend it yet, but the > results are recently pretty positive as far as I've taken them, which > isn't very far: Note that I didn't start to get a really good kernel > before last week. > > 1) I'm using an HDSP 9652. With the very newest kernels, in my case > 2.6.14-rc4-rt7 - I'm running at 64/2 with no real xruns for two days > now. (By real I mean xruns not created by doing things you would never > do in a session, such as pulling 1394 cables, adding new devices, > etc.) That siad my wokload has been very light and I've done almost no > recording so it's pretty untested as of yet. > > 2) I've used almost no plugins, which is typical for me, so I cannot > say that any of that works at all. > > 3) A lot of multimedia web stuff doesn't work. I have no idea if > that's important to you. If you need it you can get away with > something like Firefox-bin and much of it works. That's not 64-bit > though. (Doesn't matter to me...) > > 4) The memory footprint of pretty much everything is larger so if you > were used to 512MB consider 768MB or 1GB for equivalent operation. > > 5) Basic 1394 support is working pretty well but I don't know about > FreeBob. I see know reason why it shouldn't work. > > 6) My main work is using Ardour and Aqualung. Beyond that it's just > touch and go with other apps. > > As for distro I'm doing this on Gentoo-AMD64-2005.1. > > Fernando is working on similar kernels for the Planet, however he and > I seem to be running into 100% different problems. To me that's a > little scary as far as recommending anything, but it may be workload > based...who knows? Obviously his job is much larger and far harder > than mine. > > My motherboard is an Asus A8N-E. I used external 1394 audio drives, > both 1394a and 1394b, both running from the same OHCI controller. I > have a 250GB internal SATA drive of which I'm using only about 10GB so > far... > > Hoep this helps, or at least was interesting. ;-) > > Cheers, > Mark > > I'm running amd64 here too. MSI xpress 200 based motherboard, the one with the ati chipset. Seems to work well for me so far. Though you'll need a 32 bit build of stuff like mplayer if you want to use win32 codecs. Also stuff like wine/cedega of course need to be 32 bit as well. All round so far i really haven't had much time to customise/play with it, as i've been very busy over the last few months with my thesis, but the system all round seems to be very good. I wouldn't recommend the xpress 200 chipset under linux for anything other than 2-d graphics though. 3-d performance is terrible. Luckly i've got a nvidia card in it now. ;-) Though for 2-d only stuff i'd think about something with open source drivers. I'd assume that would be better for audio work. The system really copes well with a huge amount of plugins/synths which is really nice, though i had a p3 650 before so it's a bit of a change anyway! Loki
