[LAU] Tests of Linux DAWs

[Loki Davison]

On 7/26/07, Rob <lau at kudla.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
> > Yikes.  I'm running Mandriva 2007.0 (Spring is 2007.1 I think).
> > I don't have the same issues that you're having.  The thing I
> > have to be careful of is that when I first login KDE has started
> > artsd, which I don't have any use for.  I configured Rosegarden
>
> I do have KDE set to not automatically start the sound server.  But
> yeah, I'm on 2007.1, not 2007.0, and 2007.0 on my partner's and
> friends' computers does seem a little more stable media-wise.
>
> > start-up to kill artsd.  At one time I tried to get Rosegarden to
> > restart artsd when it exited.  But, that just caused Rosegarden
> > to crash and artsd didn't start.  I routinely use Ardour 2.0.3,
> > Rosegarden 1.5.1, Audacity 1.3.0 and Amarok 1.4.3 without any
> > issues.  My Jack is version 0.102.5 and ALSA is 1.0.12.  These
>
> I just noticed there was a RG 1.5.1 package available in backports,
> and installed it, and it doesn't crash on startup.  We'll have to see
> how it goes when I have time to record something.  LMMS still crashes
> on startup with a segv.
>
> Wish I had time to fire up gdb or file bug reports whenever this stuff
> happens, but as it is, it takes me a week just to get around to
> fixing ALSA when it stops working.  (Took me 3 hours to finish
> writing this reply.)  I hope someday to get back to the point where
> firing up a composing/recording environment and laying down a track
> is as effortless as firing up Openoffice or Kmail and typing away....
> like it was ten years ago under Windows 95.
>
> Rob
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I'm using 2007.1, x86_64 and all the audio stuff i use works fine
here. Not using rosegarden though.

Loki