While shuffling more junk up into the attic, I came across an old computer I'd
forgotten about, so thought I'd give it a try. This is a single core 32 bit
machine.
CMOS battery was completely dead of course and had to removed before it would
start. However, once I reset the bios defaults, to my surprise the hard drive
semed to be fine and booted up into debian etch.
My mistake then was to install a copy of squeeze, only to discover it no longer
supports the on-board graphics, so it's running frame buffer :(
However I carried on and grabbed Andrews new freebsd branch. Well, this machine
is also old enough to not support SSE so that's another hurdle.
I should have known things were not going to be easy when the *compiler* kept
crashing!
I eventually got Yoshimi running - or should I say walking. It was rather
unwell though and after a few notes (with Xruns) suddenly made a continuous
loud horrible noise - Oh and I had to run at 1024 frames even for this.
Next I tried plugging in my KA6. This was much better and I could run at 256
frames prvoded I didn't do anything quickly - there was a considerable delay
between hitting a key and anything showing on the GUI. Even then, after about
10 minutes of occasional Xruns poor Yoshimi gave up and exited.
Shortly after that when looking at qjackctl's reports the machine decided to
reboot - I think it's destined for that computer shop in the sky :(
P.S.
I think I'll pull that hard drive first :)
--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
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