laptops

[Gustin Johnson]

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I have a Compaq Presario V3010ca.  Dual core Turion (2 gigs of RAM) that
had tons of bugs when I first got it a year ago.  It works great (now)
with jack, ardour, rosegarden, zynadsubfx, qsynth/fluidsynth, dssi,  etc.

What chipset is your laptop based on?  This is probably the source of
your problems.  My laptop did not stablize until the 2.6.18 series, and
it has really started to work well with the 2.6.22+ series.  Crappy
weird bios and chipset (nvidia MCP 51).  With Intel's recent FOSS
friendly stance with respect to drivers, I think I am solidly back in
their camp.

Most of the time I use 64Studio (64 bit), for day to day computer use
and some audio work I use Ubuntu (32bit).

Keep in mind that I have an RMI 9652 PCI card in the desktop that I do
the "serious" work on.

Also, the onboard sound card is temperamental at really low latencies,
so try not to be too aggressive with your jack settings.  A USB sound
card might be the way to go, firewire still has some issues, but this
site should be useful if you go this route:
http://ffado.org/

Hth,

Larry Lines wrote:
> What laptops do users on this list have ubuntu studio running
> successfully?  By successful I mean running jackd and rosegarden and
> ardour.  Specify 32 or 64 bit version of ubuntu studio.
> 
> The reason I am asking this is I have a Dell Inspiron 1501, Turion Dual
> Core 64 bit, 2 GB of RAM.  I specifically got this computer for sound
> and graphics using linux.  I should have sent it back when I found that
> there was a kernel bug which I had a chance to do.  I could link a dozen
> references to this stupid thing that had us Dell 1501 owners installing
> distros and not being able to get the installation even started without
> pci=nomsi and a dozen other ineffective kernel parameters.
> 
> But this thing is essentially useless for Linux sound.  Jackd will NOT
> run.  In Fedora, Gentoo, Ubuntu and now Ubuntu Studio, it just
> essentially won't run.  I think it has something to do with the original
> kernel bug, but I have no way of knowing, because I essentially get
> non-answers from any of the lists on this.  It appears that no one that
> got a Dell 1501 ever wanted to get any of this working.  I have set up
> working Linux studios on a lot of other hardware and this has never
> happened.
> 
> So now I am thinking of selling this stupid thing and cutting my losses
> and moving on to another pc based laptop that other people are using to
> run linux sound.  So give me some examples of working laptops with
> ubuntu studio.
> 
> Larry Lines
> 
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