Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] LinuxSampler & sample library producers NAMM report

[Mark K. <mar...@co...>]

On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 01:14, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 03:26:31 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >    Since not too many people have GS3 yet, and since Tascam themselves
> > show the use of a second PC as the solution for Mac users, I'd like to
> > suggest that people in the Linux community consider just how hard it
> > will be to get Northern Sound types to build and run a Linux box if
> > they've never done it before. For this reason I was thinking that we
> > might try to find a few interested people in that community that want to
> > be early adopters and then give them some extra support. 
> 
> This would be an ideal application for a CD based distro - it should be
> possbile to use the GS files mounted off a NTFS or VFAT partitiion and
> that way they wouldnt have to install anything, just reboot.
> 
> I doesnt give them a setup they can use for much else ofcourse, but it
> could be the thin end of the wedge.
> 
> - Steve
Thanks Steve. That's what I think.

I was trying to imagine what happens when someone sticks a CD in there
GSt machine and reboots into Linux. I understand from other threads that
some of these Live CD distros can find networking devices and even 1394
devices, but I've not heard of any of them discovering specific sound
cards and and actually bringing up Alsa automatically. So...how are
these folks going to get Alsa running when presumably they won't even
know how to run vi?

Questions - Can Alsa be reliably started from a script file after the
machien is booted? I've never tried modprobing every command in
modules.conf. Would it work? Could we imagine putting together some
scripts, and even doing a bit of custom vi work for early adopters, to
build these scripts? I don't think it will be wise to send them to
Alsa-org and ask them to study sound card pages just to try out a demo.
They'll never want to use Linux after that experience!) ;-) 

If they are doing email on another Windows machine or a Mac, and they
put it on a floppy, could some script that's already on the Live CD be
run from a terminal and get Alsa started?

#mount /mnt/floppy
#start Alsa
#adjust levels (remember, not all cards work with alsamixer)

Just ideas about making this work so easily that an 80 year old
Grandmother would have a chance of getting sound out.

- Mark