[livesupport-dev] minimum hardware requirements
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    Hi all,

    I'm getting this question more frequently, so I wanted to put it to the
    list:

    What are the minimum and recommended hardware requirements for running
    LiveSupport?

    One reason this comes up is because there are some very interesting
    hardware units coming out these days that are worth looking into, at least
    for LS Station:

    http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1289178&Sku=A455-2504&SRCCODE=WEBGOOAUT&CMP=KNC-GOOGL


    doug


    =============================================
    Media Development Loan Fund
    =============================================
    Douglas Arellanes
    Head of Research and Development
    Center for Advanced Media--Prague (CAMP)
    Na vinicnich horach 24a/1834, 160 00 Prague 6
    Czech Republic
    Tel: + 420 2 3333 5356, Fax: +420 2 2431 5419
    Mobile: +420 724 073 364
    http://www.mdlf-camp.net
    http://www.campware.org
    =============================================
    http://www.mdlf.org
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    Douglas.Arellanes@mdlf.org wrote:
    > I'm getting this question more frequently, so I wanted to put it to the
    > list:
    >
    > What are the minimum and recommended hardware requirements for running
    > LiveSupport?

    the most pressing requirement is the multiple soundcards that you need
    (cue, live play, scheduled play)

    other than that, you do need a decent machine for low latency on
    playback - but frankly, we should test it on a low-spec machine to see
    how it behaves

    >
    > One reason this comes up is because there are some very interesting
    > hardware units coming out these days that are worth looking into, at
    > least for LS Station:
    >
    > http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1289178&Sku=A455-2504&SRCCODE=WEBGOOAUT&CMP=KNC-GOOGL

    well, how would you attach a sound card to this thing?

    (can you install Linux on it at all?)
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    On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:57:32 +0200 Douglas.Arellanes@mdlf.org wrote:
    > Hi all,
    >
    > I'm getting this question more frequently, so I wanted to put it to the
    > list:
    >
    > What are the minimum and recommended hardware requirements for running
    > LiveSupport?
    >
    > One reason this comes up is because there are some very interesting
    > hardware units coming out these days that are worth looking into, at least
    > for LS Station:
    >
    > http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1289178&Sku=A455-2504&SRCCODE=WEBGOOAUT&CMP=KNC-GOOGL
    >
    >
    > doug

    ASUS makes interesting devices - e.g. ASUS WL-500b(g) is popular in
    the Czech WiFi community as accesspoint running Linux and
    having USB port for cameras, USB disks etc.

    But we have no information on RAM amount in the device above,
    WL-500 have max 32MB AFAIK - it's not enough for LS, I think.

    BTW: USB souncard is possible for LS station?

    --
    Tomas Hlava
    th@red2head.com
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    Yeah, with the ASUS I was thinking that the sound card could be a USB;
    there are lots of those around, and many don't require external power.

    doug






    Tomas Hlava
    10/12/05 02:33 PM
    Please respond to livesupport-dev


    To: livesupport-dev@campware.org
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    Subject: Re: [livesupport-dev] minimum hardware requirements


    On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:57:32 +0200 Douglas.Arellanes@mdlf.org wrote:
    > Hi all,
    >
    > I'm getting this question more frequently, so I wanted to put it to the
    > list:
    >
    > What are the minimum and recommended hardware requirements for running
    > LiveSupport?
    >
    > One reason this comes up is because there are some very interesting
    > hardware units coming out these days that are worth looking into, at
    least
    > for LS Station:
    >
    > http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1289178&Sku=A455-2504&SRCCODE=WEBGOOAUT&CMP=KNC-GOOGL
    >
    >
    > doug

    ASUS makes interesting devices - e.g. ASUS WL-500b(g) is popular in
    the Czech WiFi community as accesspoint running Linux and
    having USB port for cameras, USB disks etc.

    But we have no information on RAM amount in the device above,
    WL-500 have max 32MB AFAIK - it's not enough for LS, I think.

    BTW: USB souncard is possible for LS station?

    --
    Tomas Hlava
    th@red2head.com
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    Tomas Hlava wrote:
    > BTW: USB souncard is possible for LS station?

    yes, any ALSA or OSS -capable sound device is good..
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    Hi all,


    For what it's worth, tonight I managed to install LiveSupport 1.0.1
    (Studio and Station) on a single Compaq 1260 notebook, which has a 300 Mhz
    Pentium I CPU, 96 megs of RAM, and a 4GB HD. It's running a pre-release
    version of LS-Knoppix, which I upgraded tonight as well (gotta love
    apt-get dist-upgrade).

    LS Studio works fine for playback. Uploading is a bit slow, though, as can
    probably be expected. The biggest problem I can see on this machine is
    system time drift.

    LS Station's HTML UI looks pretty weird on this VGA monitor, but other
    than that, it works.

    What's the slowest hardware you've been able to get LiveSupport to work
    on?


    doug

    ============================================Media Development Loan Fund
    ============================================Douglas Arellanes
    Head of Research and Development
    Center for Advanced Media--Prague (CAMP)
    Na vinicnich horach 24a/1834, 160 00 Prague 6
    Czech Republic
    Tel: + 420 2 3333 5356, Fax: +420 2 2431 5419
    Mobile: +420 724 073 364
    http://www.mdlf-camp.net
    http://www.campware.org
    ============================================http://www.mdlf.org
    ============================================



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    After testing mass import, I ask if there is an "official" way to remove all
    files and file-data from DB?

    Sebastian
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    On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 00:38:58 +0200 Sebastian Goebel wrote:
    > After testing mass import, I ask if there is an "official" way to remove all
    > files and file-data from DB?
    >
    > Sebastian

    In devel.env. you can use: "make reset" in storageServer dir.

    --
    Tomas Hlava
    th@red2head.com
  • Vote Up0Vote Down importimport
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    Douglas.Arellanes@mdlf.org wrote:
    > LS Studio works fine for playback. Uploading is a bit slow, though, as
    > can probably be expected. The biggest problem I can see on this machine
    > is system time drift.

    well, that's a hardware issue, and one is advised to run NTP anyway to
    keep their machines' time in sync...


    Akos
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