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

[Robert J. <rob...@da...>]

Hi,

I think this live cd business would be a very good idea, especially for a tool 
like linuxsampler that can be used stand-alone.

> 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?

If I'm not mistaken the newer CD distros do use alsa and should autoconfigure 
quite nicely. MandrakeMove springs to mind as a distro that probably has 
autodetect of alsa.

I imagine though that some pro-audio cards require some specific 
configurations to get going, this might prove hard.
But then again they are not that many so it might be possible to provide 
specific scripts.

/Robert

>
> 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
>
>
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