On 12/20/06, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 19:39 -0500, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > > Windows outperforms Linux on marginal hardware. This will probably > > always be the case because such hardware is not designed to be correct, > > it's designed to work with Windows. > > > > On good hardware Linux should win. > > I heard the opposite, that Linux's advantages are especially > noticeable on less fancy machines. But: that is true in the general sense that linux will run on h/w that windows has abandoned. but its not the case where the problem is that the h/w is relatively new, the chipset vendor has done nothing to facilitate a linux driver, and nobody has had the time or motivation to reverse engineer one. this is true for some significant bits of audio h/w.
Thanks for letting me know about this. Is there documentation about this somewhere? I've never heard of it before. I was about to reply that, well, the audio works, it just has dozens of xruns a second, but then I tried a few things and I actually can't get a squawk. Pure Data from the Debian repository also gives me weird bugs when trying to test audio, but I don't know how to check whether apt is fetching a 64-bit version of it. If not, I might have to start over, because I updated some critical stuff from the same repository. I'm now being told by someone on IRC to try a newer kernel. lol, maybe 64studio is *worse* than the Debian Etch I overwrote to install it.
