[LAU] Light laptop setup ?

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Wed Sep 30 15:04:16 EDT 2009


On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 18:48 -0400, lanas wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:30:54 +1000,
> M Watts <zwy648rct at gmail.com> wrote :
> 
> > On 09/28/2009 03:36 AM, lanas wrote:
> > ...
> > > 1) What is the most easiest-to-setup MIDI/audio interface for a
> > > laptop ?  Fedora 11 will be installed on the laptop.
> > 
> > Then easiest would be Planet CCRMA.  From a fresh F11 install, I did
> > 
> > rpm --import 
> > http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/RPM-GPG-KEY.planetccrma.txt
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > rpm -Uvh 
> > http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetccrma/11/i386/planetccrma-repo-1.1-2.fc11.ccrma.noarch.rpm
> 
> I know.  I've tried launching jack (qjackctl) on both F11 x86_64
> worskations and it fails on both, failing to open alsa device or
> something like that.  Of course, regular sound works on both machines.
> I bookmarked a cript I think made by Fernando (CCRMA) to be able to
> actually use jacks and I should take a look at it.
> 
> Do you run jackd w/o any problems on your F11 installation ?

Hmmm, try the version of jack in the testing repository (enable by
installing planetccrma-repo-testing), that one has a wrapper that
properly suspends pulse audio before trying to open the soundcard. 

-- Fernando





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