i agree chkconfig --list i think shows you whats up
i turned off a ton of stuff after i got going and my Sony Vaio PCG GRX 560 1.6 GHz, 512, ATI Radeon 7500 works nice with ALSA and midiman 2x2 and if i fool it it will sometimes load my emi 2|6 as a usb audio device instead of the midiman
cheers
On Wed Feb 25 13:42:52 EST 2004, Matthew Allen matthew@lith.com wrote:
Planet CCRMA's Fedora Core1 is working just fine here for me on a bit of an older machine (Athlon 1Ghz, 384mbs of ram, Geforce 3, midiman 4/10). I use PD with both alsa and jack. I seem to get much better performance with jack (little or no drop outs, unless I make FVWM do something funky). I think the trick with any of the bigger desktop targeted distros is to really turn off as many of the startup deamons you can. Don't need to print? Turn it off. No need NFS? Turn it off!
This take a bit more time and patience (and to be honest I havn't been able to get to all of the one I would like to and I still get good performance out of my machine). Its really all about tweaking your system to work for your set up.
m.
-----Original Message----- From: pd-list-admin@iem.at [mailto:pd-list-admin@iem.at] On Behalf Of shreeswifty Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 10:31 AM To: Padraig Kitterick; Ed Kelly Cc: pd-list@iem.at Subject: Re: [PD] Red Hat 9 and PD - RH9 is rubbish-7.3 is not
Hi
i feel like the sole defender of redhat these days but 7.3 works like a dream for me turning of "Nautilus" on my laptop got me even more speed
pd with ALSA, midiin, GEM all work i tend towards GEM G4 now because it seems more closely related to the work i want to be doing
But redhat 9.0 might be rubbsh but 7.3 is not. It really just matters what you want to do. Anything after 7.3 seems to try to be the M$ of linux but i have always felt that if you get a good linu/unix book that works for what you need one must avoid the lure of teh upgrade for a while.
cheers
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Patrick Pagano, B.S.,M.F.A Candidate Research And Development Assistant Digital Worlds Institute University Of Florida (352) 294-2070
Hallo both, shreeswifty hat gesagt: // shreeswifty wrote:
i agree chkconfig --list i think shows you whats up
i turned off a ton of stuff after i got going and my Sony Vaio PCG GRX 560
On Wed Feb 25 13:42:52 EST 2004, Matthew Allen matthew@lith.com wrote:
Planet CCRMA's Fedora Core1 is working just fine here for me on a bit of an older machine (Athlon 1Ghz, 384mbs of ram, Geforce 3, midiman 4/10).
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think the trick with any of the bigger desktop targeted distros is to really turn off as many of the startup deamons you can. Don't need to print? Turn it off. No need NFS? Turn it off!
The problem is: Why install all these things in the first place, if you never need it? Why is turning things off necessary?
Some distributions even make turnings things off unnecessarily hard - I'm thinking of Suse here (and also MS-Windows, MS-Word,MS-IE,..., kind of.)
That's why personally I prefer Debian. It only does what I tell it to. This is not to say that other distributions are bad or anything (I'm too old for this kind of discussion ;) but if you want a fully pre-configured distribution with lots of desktop bells and whistles, than use one. But if you want a highly customized one, than try Debian or Gentoo or Slack.
ciao
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