Gustin Johnson wrote: > It sucks that non-hardware geeks have to pay attention to the chipsets > these days. You would think that those days were in the past by now. > For anyone else looking to purchase hardware, I have recently gone back > to the Intel camp. Their stuff seems to just work under Linux. > -
I agree that it it a nuisance that we have to look out for these things. It all has to do with the reason why Linux works so much better as a DAW than windows, and that is the kernel. Under the windows system, the kernel is very small in relation to linux, and all drivers are loaded as modules onto the kernel. When I say all, I mean all. That opens the floor to hardware manufacturers to merrily go and change just about anything, as long as they supply the new drivers with the piece of hardware. The drawback is a slight performance hit. This is BAD for us, as this all has to be incorporated in the kernel, either though direct support by some hardware manufacturers (very few) or by reverse engineering. These kernel then has to be tested, and ultimately be transformed by our RT kernel hackers to be a RT kernel viable for real time audio work. Quite a process. All this says one thing - get tried and trusted hardware if you are only going to build a single system. Check out our Greylist for advice: http://www.64studio.com/node/69 . If you have the cash to try new systems, do it and report back to the greylist. If you have a perfectly working system, please contribute to our greylist with your working setup, and help other users to get their 64 Studio setups working out of the box. PS: There is no whitelist, because no hardware can be deemed fully supported... It sometimes comes down to combinations as well. BUT, generally all items marked as Grey can be considered fully or satisfactorily supported. Cheers,Quentin _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
