I have a hard one (have fun) ;-)

[Hans Gruber]

hello,
So very soon I am getting a laptop. The operating system I will be using will be linux. (ubuntu to be precise) I like recording and audio a lot. Anyways I have a very old (ancient) peice of audio hard are that is very good. I have an old Aardvark Direct Pro interface with a PCI card. It is really a great interface just a little old on the software. I have figured out that linux will not support this product so will the following idea work? it's a cray trail, but maybe?

1. can you run windows 98 inside linux while it is running? Like could I have one screen opened in 98? I know this interface works in windows 98.

2. Since this interface is a pci card and laptops do not usually have room for one and don't have slots for them as far as I know are there usb or firewire external slots? I would think someone would make one of these?

3. if I could run windows 98 and linux at the same time could I run the audio signal into Ardour? Is this possible.

thanks guys.
Peace,
Matt

 

[salvage-this]

1. can you run windows 98 inside linux while it is running? Like could I have one screen opened in 98? I know this interface works in windows 98.

Yes. You can use VirtualBox to to that. It may not have the best performance but it does work.

3. if I could run windows 98 and linux at the same time could I run the audio signal into Ardour? Is this possible.

I'm assuming that Andour is the program that you want to use in audio recording so if you use it in Win 98 inside Ubuntu it should work. I would try to use it via wine. That way you do not need to give up system recourses in order to run Win 98.

The other option that I would look into is Ubuntu Studio. it is ubuntu that is specifically designed for audio/video people.

 

[Hans Gruber]

ok thanks for the info that helps. Does naybody know anything about an external pci slot? that connects via usb or firewire?