Re: debian-user: Firewire?
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Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
> On 7/13/06, Kenward Vaughan <kay_jay@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:54:39PM -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
>> > On 7/13/06, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>> > A non-programmer.
>> > I read that IP-over-FireWire can only be done in Linux by recompiling
>> > the kernel. Maybe this was wrong.
>>
>> What work has to be done depends on whether your dist. has it compiled
>> in for the stock kernels. Apparently Debian's have it.
>>
>> I am a non-programmer (OK, OK, APL in high-school, main frame 360 out
>> of William and Mary...). Pure hobbyist at the OS level. I always roll
>> my own kernel. No programming involved, but it does require that you
>> learn a chunk about your box's innards.
>>
>> Not hard to do, but requires patience and some time. Kernel-package
>> makes the installation easy. For myself, grub is automatically
>> updated, so the working older kernel is normally kept as a backup (as
>> long as it's a version change, at least, like 2.6.15 to 2.6.16) in case
>> what I've created turns into a monster on bootup.
>>
>> It's not a bad idea to have a rescue partition set up on an unused Gb
>> chunk on your HD as well, along with a grub rescue floppy (CD?).
>>
>> There must be at least a few hundred primers out there on doing this.
>>
>> Try it sometime. :)
>>
>>
>> Kenward
>
> I find it all interesting, and I would like to, but my major is
> composition, and I deal with lots of deadlines as a musician and
> student. It's a fine line, how far I can go learning something so
> specialized, when I run both XP and OSX, in either of which I can turn
> out a good track in minimal time, spending most of my time writing the
> music. I've spend most of the last 2 days installing, learning,
> reinstalling Linux, googling every possible combination of letters
> from a QWERTY keyboard.
> I am drawn towards stuff like this, and I have the mind for it, but
> it's not what I'm "here for", it's a means to an end. I do note that
> you, and someone on the Pure Data list, mention both 2.6.15 and
> 2.6.16, and the latest stable AGNULA release uses 2.6.12; if this
> change is necessary, then I can justify it. But it's easy for me to
> get caught up in this stuff and forget that I'm supposed to be
> composing over summer and preparing for a senior recital.
What exactly do you need Firewire for? I.e., which peripheral do
you need to attach to your PC?
Also, you're on the AGNULA Users mailing list, right?
http://www.agnula.org/lists/
> I also haven't yet seen the kind of audio software in Linux that I can
> use on Windows and Mac. I'm rooting for it, but other musicians not
> as interested in getting inside their boxes are pretty dismissive
> about it.
Sadly, Linux isn't a great musician's OS.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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