Hi Gustin :) > I have no idea you mean by "Linux don't support vertical refresh any > more". Linux is still able to drive analogue VGA displays so I am > pretty sure it needs to know about refresh rates. >
I can't rule out that my monitor is broken in a bizarre way, but I don't think so. It was fine until Suse < 11.0 with my old mobo and AGP NVidia, at the same time it wasn't fine with 64 Studio. With my new mobo and the ATI I can't change the rate for any Linux. > Not my thing, but I would have expected a digital interface (DVI/HDMI) > would be better than an analogue one for graphic work? > Displays are relative good today, you can use them watching from any angle, that wasn't possible some time ago, but still the colours change if you minimal change the angle and minimal means, that you guess you don't change the angle. It might be possible, that a lot of professional work is also done with displays, but a lot of professional work is bullshit, just for TV papers etc., there also might be extreme expensive displays that allow professional work (I don't know), but freelancers with less money are using monitors. The troubles with printing offices is hard enough, if they get a work done with a perfect calibrated monitor, where the colours are always the same, independent of the angle you are taking a look from. >> get any audio and MIDI application crashes when producing audio and MIDI >> songs? What mobo is it? Maybe I should change my mobo again. Fixing >> > > I am remixing one of my friends electronica songs right now. What this > means is that I have a boatload of midi to work with. I can state with > certainty that Linux has some very capable midi applications. I am > using Rosegarden for the midi arrangements, a variety of soft-synths > (mostly zynaddsubfx, AMS, and bristol), and Ardour to mix the resulting > audio. All at the same time. All on hardware that is 3 years old. > With lots of processing overhead to spare. > With my new mobo and CPU, resources aren't a problem any more, but still all MIDI applications get killed. I'll check out jackd 0.116.1 today or tomorrow. If you sync Rosegarden and Ardour by JACK transport take car that the delay can't be heard, it also won't be in sync for you, because this is an issue of JACK, not of the hardware. I recommend to use the audio tracks of Rosegarden. >> hardware incompatibilities seems to be no interest of the Linux >> community, even if it has nothing to do with evil proprietary stuff. At >> > > I have to disagree with you here. Fixing hardware incompatibilities is > a high priority within the Linux and Open Source community. In fact no > other community or company puts the effort that the Open Source people > do into correcting this very issue. The problem is with the hardware > manufacturers themselves. There is a group of kernel devels that will > sign NDAs and write the drivers for the hardware vendor. Who else does > this? Microsoft will not write your driver for you, but the Linux > kernel developers will. Please get your facts straight. > Fact is, that many people don't use Linux, but Windows, because of troubles with chipsets. If you wish to have a forum for testing versions of distros, the community is against this. I'm not talking about a driver for the graphics and all evil vendors, I'm talking about basics like incompatible motherboards, like my M2A-VM HDMI or maybe incompatible CPUs like my BE-2350. I don't know what causes the problem with my hardware. I know some people got problems with Windows too, but more people got problems with Linux. Here I tried to get a forum for RCs, to write with other people that don't convert to Windows, but stay with Linux, even though of the problems: http://www.linux-club.de/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=99372 It's on German and you need an account. The community isn't interested in a forum, for people that try to do something against the hardware problem. I often read that I should by new hardware, again and again AND hardware that should be okay for some people isn't okay for them too, but they don't know this. E.g. I can work with files.mid, but I can't produce myself MIDI recordings. When people say that MIDI is fine for their hardware, they often don't do MIDI recordings, they just play MIDI-files from the net. And I'm not writing about Quentin, who made a test, I'm writing about the pro-audio community that recommend hardware, that wasn't really tested. My hardware is fine with openOffice, Thunderbird, GIMP. That's something complete different to the work for printing shops or to make soundtracks for films. >> the moment I try to check out at www.linux-club.de what is possible with >> the community, it seems to be that "incompetent" users get the wrong >> hardware and they should use Windows and indeed, I tend to change to >> Windows for Multimedia production. >> >> > Some of us moved from Windows to Linux. I personally find Linux to be a > very capable platform for multimedia production. I do recognize that > that it is not always the appropriate choice for all people. I have > friends who do their audio production work in Windows (in fact I gave > one of them my copy of Cubase SX since I no longer have a use for it). > That is their choice to make, not mine. When it comes > It isn't a choice for me. I don't like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Marc Shuttleworth and all the other criminals, so I don't like to use things they made, even if it's Linux and even if they do charity now, they all got their money by crimes. But I need to survive myself and at the moment I only see Windows as an alternative. I need to do jobs again, I'm living much to long from social welfare. I still hope that jackd 0.116.1 will make my Linux fine. > What I will say about Linux and Open Source in general, is that it is > very unforgiving to those people who do not take responsibility for > their own choices. Personal responsibility is probably the most > important attribute if need to possess if you want to free yourself from > proprietary software. I made the hardware and software for my first sound sampler by myself, based on a C64. I have this knowledge and I care about things. I try to work with the German Linux community, but there's no interest and English isn't a language I can communicate good enough. > Some tasks are easier under Linux, others easier > under Windows, and still others are easier under MacOS. Only one of > those choices allows me to be free, so I take the good *and* the bad. > No OS is perfect but I have found that I can do everything I want with > Open Source. The only limitation is my own motivation and willingness > to learn. > > Of course, your mileage may vary :) > Cheers, Ralf
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