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Re: Anyone using gcc-3.4 port for audio work?



Hello all,

> I just used the sid-amd64-netinst.iso image to install a
> basic pure64 system. Apart from not putting the partitions
> where I thought I asked them to be

This seems to have been due to the way I used Debian Installer, 
because it doesn't seem to have support for setting mountpoints on 
existing ext3 partitions. I ended up deleting hda5 and on re-creation 
it became hda7. So the actual partitions are the right sizes and in 
the right places on the disc, they are just numbered differently from 
how I would normally have them - towards the end of the disc I now 
have hda7 followed by hda5 then hda6.

> the only problem was that 
> the installer kernel didn't recognise either of the ethernet
> cards - I have an on-board sk98lin gigabit chipset plus an
> old-school PCI RTL8139 card for safety.

> They both seem to be recognised by the installed K8 kernel on
> reboot, so now it looks like it's manual configuration time.
> Should etherconf do the trick?
>
> Thinks so.

Unfortunately there's no etherconf package on the netinst image. I 
configured ethernet by hand by adding entries to 
the /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/resolv.conf files, and then 
base-config was able to continue with the selection of mirror etc. I 
now have X and Fluxbox installed plus alsa-base, jackd, qjackctl, 
jamin and hydrogen. The Ardour package seems to be broken for the 
time being.

As for building a multimedia kernel, it would make more sense to do it 
here using Free's 2.6.10 source package than for Free to 
cross-compile it on a 32-bit machine. This may take me a while to 
figure out, but I'll gladly contribute any debs that I can get to 
run.  
 
Cheers!

Daniel



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