hey peeps,
its me again. after struggeling with rosegarden and jack and not getting anything right, i saw some guy om a forum suggested that you can upgrade or install ubuntu studio on your machine for optimum multimedia performance.
i want to know what your views are. i have a dual boot system and i want to use my ubuntu for music editing with ardour, rosegarden and hydrogen. also i want to start to work with blender.
im having endless problems with low latency issues with rosegarden and having no sound at all. i havent even started playing with ardour or try to confugure it until my rosegarden works.so can you guys tell me what exactly ubuntu studio is and if i can just upgrade to it instead of reinstall?
and then id like to know if my laptop will be "tough enough" to handle this multimedia stuff i want to do. my laptop's specs are at the bottom. will blender work fine too and the sound editing software? any suggestions on programs and what i can do to get the best out of my laptop?
Acer Aspire 4520
AMD Athlon Dual Core 1.8Ghz
Geforce 7000M
1GB DDR2
I also have 8GB set aside forbuntu coz vista and some personal files take up all the space. There is 4.1GB left on the Ubuntu file system.
Thanks
Stian
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Hi Sticky6,
I think with the possible exception of a $30 RAM upgrade to at least 2GB (better 4GB) you should be fine on the laptop spec. If you deal with big sound files and multimedia (especially video) you will find that it eats up memory like nobody's business, so upgrade that RAM. I would also still recommend that you resize of your Ubuntu partition to something a bit more feasible for large multimedia files. Say 30-60GB if you can. Consider buying an external disk if you can't give up the space on the other partition(s).
Can you get any sound whatsoever out of the system? If not, check that your sound card is supported. Most are, but sometimes you have to make a few tweaks to get a specific chipset version to work under Linux, especially the cheaper integrated chip sound systems you find in laptops.
I would definitely recommend Ubuntu Studio for multimedia editing, it's a great collection of powerful applications, I've used it briefly. If you already run Ubuntu you can simply install ubuntu-studio package and it will essentially upgrade your Ubuntu version to Ubuntu Studio, but be aware that doing it that way does not guarantee to resolve your sound issues. For a cleaner upgrade path, save any files you have in your Linux partition onto your other partition or a memory stick and reinstall from scratch.
Hope this helps,
Ali