From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 12 18:23:16 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91BF5106566B for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:23:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marshc187@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 680D38FC26 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:23:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marshc187@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so1159297rvf.43 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:23:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type; bh=01ct+RVgw9zTtX/Cq9Uus0HC8kLbW2rFH1RUcHiDthY=; b=jMx2pfC0jHJRwpcZ3qYSKbKZ2KLiHzppP9yj9tDtigKwrP1Tr9D6lIOpBfqTYbO0NY I+D91mXRKHb7dRW0yjyf1So0I94i4E0J+HJRKQdQGjTT7pXb+KsHLHL4VU2k7nHC0X2K xElM+ZsY+0hzSuaRwhfftEbiFKi12WjtfPwLA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=leEy3jr4bFRbmrM74rLcivkUnjg2Ce9ZrknaLL/9Hj+JlSJzCPIgi1mD/adv17Ebdg ULEThLvoxxsYiNWrlY7pSGmDhZa/LO7fg/jMCj139UPkNpr6IOUoZbzGgaerp1s4ayXr 8NaiWHpdAe0blcOqLPWEMXxWHO17Ra0q6hzsU= Received: by 10.140.226.14 with SMTP id y14mr2823815rvg.188.1221243796074; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:23:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.158.21 with HTTP; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:23:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <332f78510809121123w36052fb8h3443fb6dd98c8b64@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:23:16 +0200 From: "m cassar" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Audio Production X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:23:16 -0000 Does anyone here use freebsd for serious audio/video production work? or know if there is some kind of community? i have seen ubuntu studio for a general idea outside windows/osx, but prefer fbsd over linux. and found most programs in ports, but i would like to find out more about kernel optimization in that respect and what goes into that type of dedicated setup. i am running 7-stable with a custom kernel, where i only added vesa, and removed some scsi and network drivers i don't have from the generic kernel, but i figure there must be more settings to tweak than what i saw there in the generic file. would there be more settings somewhere else or would you add them to the kernconf file? my setup works fairly decent for desktop use, but seems kinda sluggish with even basic multimedia. p.s. on a different note while i'm here, how do you go from 7.1 prerelease to 7.1 release when it is out? when/how do you tell when you stop using stable-supfile and start using standard-supfile? thanks in advance