[64studio-devel] general interest

[Daniel James]

Hi George,

> this is by far the most simple and elegant offering in the music/multimedia
> production arena i've come across.

Thanks for the compliment :-)

 > i'm wanting
> to see if ardour has progressed to usability in any kind of production 
> sense.

Yes, I believe it has. I'd say the recent Ardour 0.99.x releases are as 
stable as any other audio software I've used, and I haven't experienced 
any crashes for a long time. It's very different, in terms of stability, 
from how it was a couple of years ago.

> in trying 64studio i ran into the same issue i've had with fedora and 
> demudi.
> none detected my trackball, a serial trackball run through a long snake to
> the computer which is in another room for reasons of noise abatement.

I'll confess that we haven't tested any serial mice, only USB and PS/2. 
What make/model is your trackball? I personally use the Logitech 
TrackMan trackballs, but these are USB, with a PS/2 adaptor.

> the only distro that ever finds all my gear is mandriva, not anyone's first
> choice in this area. the fact that it always finds my trackball tells me 
> two
> things, however, that it is possible to perform such a probe, and that my
> gear does work with current linux systems.

Right, in that case it's probably that the 64 Studio installer just 
isn't expecting to find any serial pointing devices.

Cheers!

Daniel