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Rui, thanks for the tip, but this time, i'm barely a step in front of you. Suse won't work with my particular version of ppc (Hw), i've already got Alsa and Jack latest installed with rpm already available from the F9 repository, and according to a lot of research in the last few days, even if i could somehow hammer suse into the box, the sound won't work, because there's a well documented problem between the sound module snd-powermac, and the kernel. (Hence the reason i've had to use a late model kernel, like, for example, Fedora PPC.) And none of the current distros, including Suse 10.3 offer rt kernels for PPC, including, it's fair to say, fedora.
Rosegarden works a treat, i've got most of the ladspa plugs already in, and Jack is running sweetly. So in reality, i'd like to get Linuxsampler (which i'm working on at the moment) and Qtractor in the laptop as, imho, they'd both be ideal for working while travelling, and that was my intent in the first place. I'm fairly confident LS will go reasonably ok.
I seriously considered trying the suse rpm of qtractor, but after reading quite a bit about the differences between fedora and suse, and i'll be frank here, i'm not smart enough yet with linux to be sure of doing a good job.
It'll take me time to learn, and i'll get there in the end because i never give up, and never surrender, as the saying goes, but, and again i'll be frank here, i was attempting to be a bit supportive of qtractor. I think it's a great programme, but if i can't install it, and use it, then, well, what can i say?

Anyway, i may try again, when i have a bit more time. I'm fully into getting LS going, and that's the priority at the moment.

Enjoy the ride.

Alex.

:)