hee hee hee hee hee

[solarbird]

So, ysabel played the short test recording of January to a friend, and now diego001 is my first CD's second sponsor! Thanks! ^_^ (I still can't get over the idea that anybody would want to do that. It just makes me giggle. Hee hee hee hee hee *^_^*;; )

(I guess I'm gonna have to actually make all this shit work now! Today it only took 10 minutes to get the DAW to acknowledge my microphone inputs, and it didn't even break output fixing it. I don't know why it quit; I even left it running overnight after yesterday's misadventures. Oh, yesterday it wouldn't do input OR output OR talk to my monitor properly anymore (to wit: fuck! they broke plug-and-play again!) and that took 3.5 hours to make go. So I left it running. I thought that'd mean everything would still work today. Well, mostly. Anybody who thinks Linux is "ready for the desktop" needs to come off the crystal meth. Now.

But honestly, there must be a stable point in here somewhere. People actually use this shit! And it can't be like this for everybody! I blame, I dunno, Compaq. And possibly global warming.)

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Talk to mdlbear about recording stuff with Linux and Macs. If you want to, poke around on http://steve.savitzky.net/ and follow linkies first... mdlbear_albums is also a useful resource for "how I did this".... tell him I sent you.

[angharads-house.livejournal.com]

well, heck, we'd be happy to sponsor the darned thing as well, for that matter.

still paying it forward like y'do. ^_^

[solarbird]

The more the merrier! I guess! Yikes?

[angharads-house.livejournal.com]

not necessarily yikes, I hope -- more like a collection of small catalytic acts. send link to snippet, maybe?

[ysabel.livejournal.com]

Personally, I have about the same amount of difficulty (read: small) configuring my Windows boxes and my Unix boxes. So I find them equally ready for the desktop. *grin*

[solarbird]

This isn't configuration, this is spontaneous unconfiguration. When I found out that XF86Config was now spread across a bunch of files and was pointed to the one where the monitors were defined, I could define the monitor easily enough. It's the "O HAI NO MONITOR FOR J00" part that was the problem.

[maellenkleth]

That's pretty much why I backed away from Linux -- too many component files coupled with opaque documentation. A nice implementation of mahjong is insufficient grounds for installation of a new OS.

Linux's learning curve is not impossible to follow, but the time required for optimisation is simply too high when one has limited free time.

I remain thankful that my actual production system is stable and simple. The KISS principle applies.

[angharads-house.livejournal.com]

o-keh, so that explains why we have six active machines on the housenet, now? better get the linux guru up here for a day.

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

What distribution is that? My Ubuntu systems just have xorg.conf replacing the old XF86Config, and even that is semi-optional these days.

Though to get multi-monitor to automatically work properly with my laptop I did have to add "/usr/bin/xrandr --output VGA --auto --above LVDS" to strategic places, not something most people would be up for.

[solarbird]

It was Ubuntu, but xorg.conf did not look comprehensive to me. But it has been a while since I've looked at an actual XF86Config in the wild, and it scared me. Perhaps there is less in it than I remember.

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

These days most of what used to be in XF86Config *can* still be defined in xorg.conf, but is normally detected automatically and therefore omitted from the config file, making it normally much smaller than the old XF86Config files. My current laptop xorg.conf exists for the sole purpose of defining a virtual display large enough for two monitors.

[diego001.livejournal.com]

Anybody who thinks Linux is "ready for the desktop" needs to come off the crystal meth. Now.

Hee. It's true. Although to be perfectly honest, my opinion on hardware and software is "all hardware sucks, all software sucks."