On Sun, October 28, 2012 9:18 am, Len Ovens wrote: > > On Sat, October 27, 2012 1:50 pm, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > >>> PCI is dead, >> >> Alot of people would love to upgrade their older pci cards to new mobos. >> It's becoming a real hassle to find boards that allow that. > > As an owner of an older PCI audio interface... I have been putting some > thought to this. I remember that there was a time not too long ago when > people were using old DX100s as routers. Boot from a floppy and run in > memory (not much either), no drive, no fan in the PSU or on the CPU. > > Maybe instead of getting rid of the old MB... pull the graphics card > (first thing to go anyway) Run a minimal linux (terminal only) that runs > netjack. Now you have an ethernet sound interface. Plug into the new box > (maybe on it's own NIC) and run netjack instead of jackd. > This is a proven method for building out a relatively cheap high performance netjack cluster. Taking it a step further it can also be used for rendering with blender and cinelerra. In that case having the graphics card is also useful. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
