Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] linux audio on PPCi

2003-12-01 Thread vincent . touquet
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 10:12:24AM +, Steve Harris wrote: >I guess the more of us who buy them the quicker the endianness problems >will be fixed, ppc-linux-audio-user? :) :) I was thinking along the same lines ;) v

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] linux audio on PPCi

2003-12-01 Thread Niklas Werner
Am Donnerstag, 27. November 2003 11:42 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I am contemplating buying a laptop of some sort, to develop on. > I was wondering how many of you are using an x86 laptop and how > many are using a ppc laptop :in I am using a Powerbook G3 500 and a G4 1.25 both with gentoo. They

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] linux audio on PPCi

2003-12-01 Thread Steve Harris
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 11:42:16 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am contemplating buying a laptop of some sort, to develop on. > I was wondering how many of you are using an x86 laptop and how > many are using a ppc laptop :) > > It looks to me as if Apples laptops are rock solid and don't suf

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] linux audio on PPCi

2003-12-01 Thread CK
I read: > These are also valid arguments but they have nothing to do with the > stability and quality of the nvidia drivers which is what I intended to > comment about. right, sorry this was sort of pre-coffee cheers, x -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Postmodernism is german romanticism with bett

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] linux audio on PPCi

2003-12-01 Thread Robert Jonsson
Hi, CK wrote: I read: I think this an urban myth, the Nvidia drivers may be proprietary but they are well functioning. I think this is a pretty rural comment, there is more than x86, where are the nvidia binaries for 2.6, and personally I really don't feel like loading a binary only module. T

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] linux audio on PPCi

2003-12-01 Thread CK
I read: > I think this an urban myth, the Nvidia drivers may be proprietary but they > are well functioning. I think this is a pretty rural comment, there is more than x86, where are the nvidia binaries for 2.6, and personally I really don't feel like loading a binary only module. regards, x

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] linux audio on PPCi

2003-12-01 Thread Richard Spindler
On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 11:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am contemplating buying a laptop of some sort, to develop on. > I was wondering how many of you are using an x86 laptop and how > many are using a ppc laptop :) I own an Apple iBook running Yellow Dog Linux, but I do not run a patched low-

RE: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] linux audio on PPCi

2003-11-30 Thread Ivica Bukvic
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linux-audio-dev- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian Schoenebeck > Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 7:19 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] linux audio on PPCi > > E

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] linux audio on PPCi

2003-11-30 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
Es geschah am Sonntag, 30. November 2003 21:52 als Robert Jonsson schrieb: > I think this an urban myth, the Nvidia drivers may be proprietary but they > are well functioning. Actually there are opensource drivers for nvidia > chips, it is true though that only the proprietary drivers support OpenG

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] linux audio on PPCi

2003-11-30 Thread Antonio Willy Malara
On 2003.11.30 21:52, Robert Jonsson wrote: Fan noise, which is very much releated to the CPU power is also something to think about. Some laptops are noisy to the point that they are unusable for audio-work (or just about anything). /Robert this is no issue for ppc-laptop, at least on my ibook the

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] linux audio on PPCi

2003-11-30 Thread Robert Jonsson
Hi, Sunday 30 November 2003 19.00 skrev Christian Schoenebeck: > Es geschah am Donnerstag, 27. November 2003 11:42 als > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > I know some applications are not ported yet to ppc and suffer from > > x86-isms, but that should be fixable I guess :) > > It's not only orphane

Re: [linux-audio-dev] [OT] linux audio on PPCi

2003-11-30 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
Es geschah am Donnerstag, 27. November 2003 11:42 als [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > I know some applications are not ported yet to ppc and suffer from > x86-isms, but that should be fixable I guess :) It's not only orphaned asm lines but also endian dependent code that makes a lot of trouble on

[linux-audio-dev] [OT] linux audio on PPCi

2003-11-30 Thread vincent . touquet
I am contemplating buying a laptop of some sort, to develop on. I was wondering how many of you are using an x86 laptop and how many are using a ppc laptop :) It looks to me as if Apples laptops are rock solid and don't suffer from buggy ACPI to start with. Or is this extra quality just a myth ?