-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > On 7/13/06, Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:54:39PM -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: >> > On 7/13/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. - -- 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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEt8x/S9HxQb37XmcRArEQAKCMdF/Ja+5ZHX/YDDnRb64PIsqIgwCgn2lL c7nWUqxK7FdmZvsb/qPU7nI= =uEZU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
