[PlanetCCRMA] odd behavior of my linux

[Mark Knecht]

> It really drives me crazy.
> I have used for days now redhat 8 + Planet ccrma, I rebooted many
> times my laptop (partly because of rosegarden hanging my
> machine). So I know that the lowlat kernel 2.4.19 works. And
> today, I rebooted, no pcmcia, no alsa. I rebooted once again with
> the old kernel, launched synaptic. Synaptic told me that the
> lowlat 2.4.19 kernel is not installed (it was!!) so I installed
> once again. Pcmcia works now, but not alsa. I'm gonna re-install
> alsa, but that's really odd.
> There was an apt-conf problem discussed here, is it what's
> driving me crazy me?

Are you using the kernel with acpi support?

What does your modules.conf file look like?

>
> I was a mandrake user (still on one machine) and switched to
> redhat 8 for planet ccrma. But now planet ccrma seems to focus on
> redhat 9.0 .  It's really a pain in ass always upgrading. I was
> doing more music with my old 1040 atari ste. How can it be so
> difficult to have a decent midi sequencer on Linux ten years
> after? For the midi newbie one complainig about rosegarden, he
> should try muse. I find easier to get it working.
>
> As a user, I feel really lost and disapointed by the state of
> music on my beloved os.

I agree! Fernando's work makes this much, much easier on guys like you and
I, but I think the whole state of the Linux world is almost a fallacy in
terms of stability for users. Yes, the OS is 'beloved', but the apps are
not, and the developers (WHO LOVE TO COMPILE, TWEAK CODE, COMPILE MORE,
SMILE, CHANGE API'S BECAUSE IT WILL BE BETTER, COMPILE, SMILE) don't think
much about users. I tried for 6 months to write a song really using Linux. I
found as a user that I couldn't get one done. I was forever messing withthis
stuff, as much for my curiousity as for tecnical or development reasons. I
went back to Windows and wrote 8 songs in two weeks. My drummer likes 5 of
them. That's a pretty goot ratio for me.

However, if it wasn't for Fernando and the Planet, I would have given up 6
months ago. Today I _THINK_ I'll get some great support apps - soft synths,
mastering one of these days from Steve, nice metering, etc. - but as for
Linux being my bread and butter platform, I'm not so sure anymore.
Developer's attitudes about what they are really doing, and why, probably
need to be 'tweaked'! ;-) (Or mine!!!)

Cheers,
Mark