BTW - I'm not suggesting only installing a single distro. you have enough disk space to install a few and try out support for the machine in each, just to see how it goes. Ain't grub grand? ;-) - Mark On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 6:38 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey Dave, > Sounds like you're making pretty good progress. Congrats You'll > have to report back some benchmark values when you get it set up to > your liking. > > I cannot speak to Ubuntu. I've never run it. However I've run > Gentoo 64-bit for a few years now. All I can say is that while 64-bit > Linux works, and works well, there are a lot of real world limitations > in terms of accessing media from the web. While no where near as bad > as they used to be you will likely run into issues with Java and Flash > under 64-bit, and the decoders for things like Windows media file > types are almost always a bit more difficult than on our 32-bit > machines. Again, no where near as bad as they used to be, but not as > good as the 32-bit versions. > > Even though I'm purchasing 64-bit processors these days I'm not > installing 64-bit anymore. I have one machine to test but 32-bit the > rest of the way around. There's nothing about your system specs that > demands 64-bit (IMO) so consider whether you really want it. > > Cheers, > Mark > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 6:28 AM, Dave Phillips <dlphillips@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Greetings, fellow LAUyers, >> >> To recap: I recently purchased a Hewlett-Packard G60-125NR notebook, a >> machine based on an AMD Turion 2 GHz CPU, with 3G RAM, a 250G hard disk, >> and an on-board nVidia 8200M (essential for my work). Sound comes from >> an nVidia chipset based on the dreaded Intel HDA codec. >> >> My experience so far has been illuminating. I first tried to install the >> 64-bit versions Ubuntu 8.10 and Arch Linux, both of which froze during >> the installation procedure. Some research indicated that the likely >> culprit was the Atheros wifi driver, so I tried the brokenmodules option >> but still got no joy. I found reports that Mandriva and OpenSUSE 11.0 >> worked, and since OpenSUSE downloaded faster I gave it a whirl. The >> brokenmodules option seemed to do the trick, and after a while I had a >> new Open SUSE 11.0 (64-bit) installed on the machine. Alas, I couldn't >> get the official nVidia driver to work, which left me with an >> unsatisfactory vesa framebuffer display. A little more Googling revealed >> that indeed some users were enjoying Ubuntu 8.10 on this hardware, so I >> tried again, this time with the i386 installer. Voila, in short order I >> had a new Ubuntu system installed, with working 3D acceleration from the >> nVidia closed-soure driver. >> >> On to the audio. Intrepid doesn't create an audio group by default, so I >> had to do the dance to add that group and myself to its users. That got >> me to realtime JACK performance, though I'm still suffering excessive >> xruns at 17.4 ms latency (-p 256 -n 3 -r 44100). I don't plan to use >> that chipset as a primary audio interface anyway (I'm in the market for >> a USB interface now), so for the present time I'll live with it. Btw, >> the audio device is on IRQ 19, probably not the optimal position. >> >> I have one more permissions problem to resolve (access to /dev/nvidiactl >> is forbidden to the normal user) then I believe I'll have my target >> machine, i.e. a portable box that can run AVSynthesis (OpenGL + Csound). >> Btw, I've already scrapped the GNOME desktop in favor of fluxbox (of >> course), but I'd certainly like to hear from other Ubuntu users >> regarding any other recommended streamlining. For instance, I'd like to >> junk pulseaudio and compiz completely but I'm not sure how to do it. >> >> One question: Should I go ahead and install the UbuntuStudio packages ? >> I have the rt-kernel, it seems I could just go ahead and install the >> rest. Any reasons not to do so ? >> >> Best, >> >> dp >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-audio-user mailing list >> Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user >> > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
