Mark Knecht wrote: > 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 sorted out the permissions problems, AVSynthesis now takes full advantage of the nVidia driver. I also built and installed an up-to-date Csound 5.09 with some extra bells & whistles. Setting up the build environment was easy, Ubuntu uses the apt package management system, including the Synaptic GUI. > > 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. > > The main box here is a 64 Studio system, pure 64-bits. Its main musical function is Ardour, which runs very nicely on it. I also use it for teaching purposes, running Audacity and a few other apps. Most of my composition work is done on the 32-bit machine. > 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? ;-) I'm still interested in testing Arch, but for a while I'm going to tune Ubuntu. The xruns are bad, and according to at least one report they shouldn't be this bad. So, back to the grindstone... Best, dp _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
