laptops

[andylockran]

Larry,

I'm not clued up on your specific computer, but would purchasing an external soundcard be a more economically sound proposal than selling the whole laptop?

Regards,

Andy

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:41:57 +0000, "Larry Lines" <larry at twistedpop.com> 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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