Quoting Jeremy Henty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi folks, I was wondering if any of you had tips on building an LFS > system for serious music/audio composing/editing work. I'll also be > pinging alsa-dev etc. for help but I'd appreciate your input too. I'm > a long-time happy LFS 4.1 user and I've already decided the next > system will be LFS 6.x come what may. I'll be getting new hardware so > I am free to choose whatver sound card etc. is best supported. > > My cunning plan is: > > * buy the hardware > * boot off Knoppix 3.6 > * build LFS 6.1 > * install the sound infrastructure: > alsa, jack, timidity (if necessary) > * install utilities: > probably seq24, muse, etc., etc. > * ??? > * Profit! (Or settle for fun!) > > Pitfalls I see are getting hardware that is fully supported and > getting the low-latency and realtime stuff working in 2.6 . 2.6.12 > has merged the realtime rlimits parches, so I plan to go with that > (bleeding edge I know, but I'd like to get the official solution > working if at all possible). There have also been issues with NPTL, > though I don't know is that's still a problem. > > Finally, I want surround-sound. I'm looking forward to crapping my > pants in terror inside Doom 3. > > Thanks in advance for any help, > > Jeremy > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page >
Hi Jeremy, Something I did was put all my audio programs and utilities in /opt/multimedia. These multimedia utilities get updated quite frequently and I didn't want to 'taint' my core LFS. I took me a bit to get it right. But at the same time it got me one step (or maybe even a few) up the linux specialist ladder. In the end it turned out not too difficult actually. Resent ./configures are quite a lot 'smarter' with their search for dependencies. Only in one instance did I really have to change a header file manually. Otherwise I just got around by adding - L/opt/multimedia/libs and -I/opt/multimedia/include to the compile options LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS respectively. In the /etc/profile.d directory I added a multimedia.sh file that adds /opt/multimedia/bin to PATH and /opt/multimedia/lib/pkgconfig to PKGCONFIGPATH I also added /opt/multimedia/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf. All my audio programs work just fine. Maybe something you might consider Regards Ilja ---------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://www.ukonline.net -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
