Re: debian-user: Firewire?
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.
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.
-Chuckk
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"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to
work hard at work worth doing."
-Theodore Roosevelt
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