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I have a Soundblaster Live card, plus a Korg X5DR synthesizer module that I hook to the sound card's MIDI port. I also hook a MIDI keyboard to the same port. Now, using the sound drivers from http://www.opensound.com , both MIDI input and output via the MIDI port works just fine. But under ALSA, I don't see where I can enable something like this. In the sound settings for Configuration/KDE/Sound/MIDI, there's no option to select an external port for output. I think it's just a setting of a switch in modules.conf that I have to put in, but I don't know what that switch is. Does anybody here know?

I just installed an updated kernel (used rpmfind), and I now have 2.4.21-multimedia kernel with its kernel source rpm. A couple questions: How do I set it up so that this kernel is the default kernel for Mandrake to boot into? While booting up the kernel, I get the following messages before anything happens: ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP ACPI: System description tables not found ACPI: Unable to load system description tables (the above is paraphrased) However, after that message, the system seems to work just fine. Is there anything from this I should be concerned about? I'm using Mandrake 9.0

Get Crossover Plugin, use the Windows Quicktime. That way, you won't have to deal with it.

Just out of curiosity, are they also working on compatibility with the NT Windows family? (NT/2000/XP) The thing keeping me away from Win4Lin right now is that MIDI is not supported in it, which is quite important to me.

Your exact quote: What "problem" are you referring to? The only thing you said was that Ecasound was semi-crap, which isn't a reason. What does it have that Audacity doesn't? And do you use all of them on a regular basis? I'll print your quote again: That, to me, is not an informed opinion. It says absolutely nothing other than you didn't like a couple programs. Nobody can make an informed decision based solely on that quote above. I'm not saying you should lie, but you need to give better arguments than that. Never said it was. Just made a f**king suggestion for possibly getting it running, for crying out loud!! In fact, I was trying to be light-hearted about it, and here you come out and chop me to pieces about it. If you're going to go in with that attitude, then you'll probably be right in your mind. And, for the record, you didn't say why it didn't cut it in the first place. Look, I use these programs on a regular basis, and I can tell you first hand that they do what I ask them and more. Are you saying that I don't know what I'm talking about? I'm going to stop discussing this now, because you seem to be getting offended by the fact that I'm not just merely taking your word as the gospel of Christ. You really need to lighten up, I wasn't trying to start a flame war.

That's the thing, though. You've used Cool Edit Pro for a long time, and Ecasound is still relatively recent. (I should probably ask when was the last time you tried it?) What might take you a third of the time to do in Cool Edit vs. Ecasound might take three times longer for me to do in Cool Edit than it would using Audacity and/or Ecasound, because I'm used to Audacity/Ecasound and not Cool Edit. We tend to stick with what we've used for a long time, because we're used to it. Linux programs might not have all the options available in Cool Edit Pro, but, to be honest, how many of those options actually get used on a regular basis? Are all the options really needed? About file types not compatible, what the heck file type does CEP use that can't be imported into another program? I was sort of under the impression that these types of programs write wav files for each individual track (Magix, if you took multiple takes at a certain spot, would add the new take to the end of the wav file, rather than replacing. I'm sure CEP does the same thing. Personally, I hate that). I'm just concerned that we're potentially turning potential new Linux users away from Linux if we make these kinds of claims. Stating that professional audio/music production on Linux is impossible is just plain false. You don't need Cool Edit Pro to make professional recordings. That's all I'm getting at. You seem to be quite happy with Cool Edit Pro, and I don't blame you. I believe you when you say you've tried a lot of them, and found that CEP does what you need the best. Just keep in mind that it's merely what you prefer. Somebody else might prefer something different. I just don't think we should be saying a particular operating system isn't suited for a particular task merely because we don't like the software for it. Sorry for my long rant, and I mean no disrespect. P.S. Have you tried running CEP in WineX? I actually tried running CEP 2.0 demo via Crossover Office. Installed great, just wouldn't run. :P Maybe I'll try it via WineX whenever I have some spare time.

What was wrong with it? Sure, it's not perfect, but I find it to be a great program for multitrack recording and editing. If you've been using Cool Edit Pro for a long time, I can understand that switching to anything different takes a while to get used to. I, personally, have never used Cool Edit Pro when I used Windows. I actually used Magix Music Studio when I used Windows. But only for a few months, and I didn't even record that many songs. A few months after I got Magix, I ended up switching to Linux, and began exploring audio apps. Audacity, so far, seems to be the most sophisticated audio editor I've used, and I've also used Acoustica from Acon, and Magix's Wav editor. I find Ecasound to be the most advanced. There isn't much of a learning curve for me, because I haven't used any other program extensively. Well, I'm happily making and recording music using my Linux installation, so I don't see how that statment could possibly apply to every single sound professional out there. I can understand if you've been using Cool Edit Pro or something else for several years, but people that are just getting into sound recording can find lots of perfectly adequate (or more so) software on Linux. Speaking from experience, sound professionals are not screwed because they use something other than Windows. I think it's mostly due to what they're used to.

Take a look at ecasound. http://www.eca.cx Also, Broadcast 2000 is included on the Mandrake CD's (it's called bcast). This isn't to say that these programs are as good or better than Cool Edit Pro, but Ecasound especially has lots of features and is quite sophisticated. That being said, I would most likely purchase a copy of Cool Edit Pro if they made a Linux port.

That's my question. I want to be able to start my ADSL connection as a regular user. Is it possible?

Try turning up the igain control.

Do you have alsa-utilities installed? If so, check the settings in alsamixer. If not, install the package, then see above.

I was actually referring to systems with only motherboards, processor, and memory installed. I just wanted to see if there were motherboards that I should avoid or ones I should steer myself towards. Sound and video aren't an issue, I have a sound and video cards that I will be using instead of what's on board. Although I am looking into prebuilt and configured systems as well.

I've read on the wine app database that Photoshop 7 works with Crossover Office. You might want to test that before buying it, though.

I agree, but there is the point that most of the cameras I've experimented with can serve as their own card reader. Granted, I've only tried with the cameras of a few friends, and my Olympus D-380. I just plug the usb cable into it and treat it as a mountable filesystem, instead of as a camera. This is the way I use my digital camera as well. I couldn't really research what kind of camera to buy, because I actually got it for Christmas from my parents. But I was quite happy that the camera worked as soon as I plugged it in. So you'll probably be all right with most cameras out there. Worst case scenario, it will be read as a removable drive instead of a camera. But the pictures will still be viewable and downloadable.

I'm asking for sites where I could buy a barebone system that would work with Linux.

Do you think you could edit your message just a bit so that we don't have to scroll horizontally back and forth to read the messages? :D Thanks... :)

Did you type "./configure" before typing "make"?

Okay, let's see if I can explain this well.... I'm coming across an increasing number of RPM's that require GLIBC 2.3.1 in order to install them. I could just compile the programs from source, but that takes a while. My question is, would updating my GLIBC cause major problems? If so, is there a way to install GLIBC 2.3.1 concurrently with my current version so as not to break anything but still be able to install programs that require GLIBC 2.3.1?

FYI, MCC = Mandrake Control Center In case you weren't sure what it meant. :wink:

You have to install the kernel-source RPM. It's on one of your Mandrake CD's, probably the second one.

Somehow I figured you'd blame supermount. :P However, it wouldn't explain the parallel port printer not working (not really an issue, I got a Lexmark z23 printer to replace it several months ago and it works just fine). I'd rather not disable supermount entirely. It always works for me for CD's and floppies, I've never had a problem with it in all the time I've used Linux. Plus I really liked it mounting my digital camera the first time I plugged it in. I wouldn't have known what to do otherwise. (granted, I've had to manually mount it since then, but I've never had a problem doing so) Nevertheless, I will try disabling supermount, to see if it makes a difference. I did try disabling supermount for the Zip drive only, with no effect. Although I really think the problem is with Linux not being able to properly read my parallel port, like a broken driver or something.

Well, I went into the BIOS and changed the setting for the parallel port to a different setting. And miraculously, the zip drive worked,...........but only for the first disk I put in it. If I tried to get it to access another disk, I keep getting input/output errors. But if I put that same disk back in, it reads just fine. Seems I can't change disks without rebooting. Manually mounting and unmounting the drive has no effect.

After more investigating, I don't think the problem is with the zip drive. It's with the driver for the parallel port. Now if only I knew how to fix the problem..........

You seem to be convinced that it's an IRQ conflict. But if that was the case, then it wouldn't work in Windows either.

I did a fresh install. I started with a blank Linux partition and installed it, so that's not the problem.