[ardour-users] Potential user Ardour questions

[Jan Depner]

GNOME has the same order of overhead that KDE has - too much.  I
originally started out using fvwm2 but a number of people recommended
fluxbox and blackbox.  After trying both I switched to blackbox (it was
pretty much a tossup).  It's really easy to set up a menu for your audio
stuff.  There are a few things I kill prior to doing any serious
recording even though I'm running blackbox.  I take down:

    service amd stop
    service portmap stop
    service nfs stop
    service network stop
    service lpd stop
    service crond stop
    service syslog stop

I just don't like anything interrupting while I'm recording ;-)  Of
course I crank them back up when I'm finished (it's almost easier to
just reboot).  The service command is available on RH/Fedora systems. 
Prior to running Ardour you'll also want to kill autorun and artsd.


Jan





On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 19:27, Josh Karnes wrote:
> Never tried blackbox...  I dig gnome but I don't know how "unstreamlined" it is 
> comparatively, seems much faster on my FC1 box than KDE, but what do I know?
> 
> 
> 
> Jan Depner wrote:
> 
> > Good point.  I set up root to log into blackbox to eliminate most of the
> > overhead of KDE.  I do all of my recording as root anyway.
> > 
> > Jan
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 19:12, Dan Harper wrote:
> > 
> >>On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 12:05, Josh Karnes wrote:
> >>
> >>>However, it seems a bit "heavy" for an audio application...  It's got a lot 
> >>>of fluff that gets installed without any real choice in the matter.  I have 
> >>>learned that cleaner is better for my audio PC.
> >>
> >>Yeah that's true.
> >>
> >>One thing to fix that is just to change the window manager that you
> >>use.  Try blackbox or fluxbox, nice and streamlined.  The other option
> >>I've done is to go through and disable all the pretty stuff.
> >>
> >>Either option works, but if you want a fast, streamlined distro, then I
> >>have heard good things about Gentoo.
> >>
> >>Dan
> >>
> >>
> >>
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