[LAU] No joy with AVlinux

[Robin Gareus]

Hi Batz,

just a quick re:

On 12/01/2010 02:29 PM, Batz wrote:
> Y-ellow All.
>         OK. need some help here. I regret to say that I'm not getting
> much mileage out of AVlinux. I haven't felt quite like throwing a
> computer out the window, since Turtle Beach first started making sound
> cards. Well, OK, It's not quite that bad but it's certainly reminiscent.
> Ah them were the days... However I think my days of experiments in
> computer aerodynamics are behind me. :) I hope.
> 
> I'm not even quite sure what questions to ask at this point. There is so
> much not working properly. It all seems quite hopeless. So ultimately; I
> need to know if I am wasting my time or should I persist? Should I move
> on and try a different distro? Though I actually like the distro it self.
> 
> The test bed is fairly simple...
> 
> 2.8 gig P4
> 1 gig RAM
> Hoontech DSP124 (Envy24) sound card.
> Evolution MK249 USB keyboard.
> 
> The final system will be different to this but this will have to do as a
> proof of concept. All of which appears to work in and of it self.
> 
> For the most part, software will either connect to MIDI or Audio but not
> both. All except for that little drum machine thing. Hydrogen? I get
> sound and MIDI but it Xruns and crashes regularly. I'm not so much
> worried about the Xruns at this point. There are bigger issues. Linux
> sampler only works as a Zynjacku plug in. Except that Zynjacku's MIDI
> comes up in the MIDI tab of JACK. Everything else comes in under the
> ALSA tab. Which means there's no way to connect to it. Or no obvious way.

run 'a2jmidi'

> Yoshimi looked really interesting. It looks as though you can use
> samples as oscillators which could be what I'm after. Except that as
> above, I can't connect MIDI into it. And even when using the little
> keyboard applet/window, it crashes a lot. Usually it takes JACK out as
> well. To the point of requiring a reboot. Because the frozen windows
> lock themselves and I can't kill them. And JACK won't connect anything
> after that. I guess I could find the process and kill it. I can't see
> that being very helpful up on stage in front of an audience though. And
> the last time it crashed, it seems to have crashed permanently. Yoshimi
> will load and lock it self and that's all.

AFAIK, Yoshimi is still under heavy development and not ready for
prime-time, yet.

> Perhaps the recording apps work well. I don't know. I'm not set up to
> test that. And this is not my current focus.
> 
> So anyway, if any of this sound familiar and is easily fixed then I'd be
> over the moon to hear about it. Or alternatively, should I move on to
> try another distro?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Be absolutely icebox.
> 
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