with acceptance of verbal beatings by other forum-users, i dare hereby to tell a little story, and ask a technical question @ the same time.
I just got a nice Mac G4 500 mhz without a HD from a fleemarket, for about 15 Euroś !
Basically i got 10 KG of plastic/metal & puzzlefun. ( or so i thought)
I draged it home smiling by bus and metro, hopefull that it would work.
I fired it up and behold! itś alive!, now im just loving it more than all of my Pc´s together.
Today I got a brand new segate 160 GB IDE HD and succeded in installing Ubuntu permanently on the beast.
how did i as a newbee manage to install Ubuntu on it? lol there was 5 hours of fun.
Question #2: How do I install Ardour on it, i mean, does anyone know of a guided tour in Ubuntu & Ardour for beginners. i am very pleased with this new machine on wich im writing this topic.
I have 3 different audio cards and would like to learn Ubuntu & Ardour with this fine machine:
My audio cards are:
Digidesign Digi 003 Rack, ( i don´t count on this one to work with Linux )
Digidesign Mbox, ( might work if someone wrote a driver for it)
ESI Julia (my best guess)
otherwise i´m willing to buy a new card of some sort…
terms like Scons and Jack are alien to me and i find it a bit hard to start of right.
I would like to hit the ground running as i already love this OS and would love to give Pro Tools and Winblows a challenge…
You won’t be able to use any digi hardware with Linux. The ESI Julia I am not familiar with - if it uses a chipset used by other devices (e.g. the ice1712/1724 chipsets widely used by many 8-16 channel PCI audio interfaces like the Terratec and M-Audio Delta series), then it might work. You can just boot up and see if Linux recognizes it.
As for ubuntu + audio + ardour + jack, you should use google to find the best documentation. There is quite a bit of it out there. You could start here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio
andbaek, i have several old G4 powermacs that i’ve picked up along the way for similar fiddling. a small word of recommendation: these machines are simply not ideal for multi-track recording with a modern linux (or even mac os x). however, they are great for recording demos as long as you keep things simple. not too many tracks/effects.
secondly, you are probably best off just using the powermac’s built-in sound. connect to an external mixer, if you need it.
this isn’t really the forum to give a beginner’s guide to linux pro-audio; but, JACK is the first thing you’ll have to get running no matter what you do. just installing jack on its own does not make for a very user friendly setup. qjackctl is an application that provides an easy (well, easier) frontend to jack. with ubuntu, simply run (from the terminal):
sudo apt-get install qjackctl
that will install qjackctl and all of its dependencies.
then, for ardour,
sudo apt-get install ardour
those two things will give you the bare-minimum software that you need to get started, assuming that ubuntu adequately autodetected the powermac’s hardware. i assume it did, as i have had very little trouble in this regard.
but, like paul said, google is brimming with info on this. i will point out, though, ubuntustudio is x86-only, so some issues you may have will likely not be addressed in the ubuntustudio wiki.
