[LAU] No joy with AVlinux

[Folderol]

On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 21:03:06 +0100
fred <f.rech at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Folderol a écrit :
> > On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:44:20 +0100
> > Hartmut Noack <zettberlin at linuxuse.de> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Am 02.12.2010 10:59, schrieb Philipp Überbacher:
> >>     
> >>> Excerpts from Hartmut Noack's message of 2010-12-02 09:40:47 +0100:
> >>>       
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> >>>>
> >>>> Am 01.12.2010 14:29, schrieb Batz:
> >>>>         
> >>>>> Y-ellow All.
> >>>>>           
> >>>> [snip]
> >>>>         
> >>>>> 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?
> >>>>>           
> >>>> All I can say: a friend of mine here in Germ, who was heavily advocating
> >>>> AVLinux last year, is now explicitly warning users NOT to use AVLinux 4.1.
> >>>> Bad RT-Performance and other smaller issues he reports. Seems, AVL has
> >>>> switched from Debian to Ubuntu. The very same step, that was one of the
> >>>> last steps in the life of 64Studio....
> >>>>         
> >>> 64studio is dead?
> >>>       
> >> Not officially dead yet, but smelling quite funny to me....
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > I've been waiting for an update on this too :(
> >
> > However, the good news is that I've found I get very reasonable results using a
> > minimal debian squeeze then pulling in a rt kernel and just the audio packages
> > I want.
> >
> > If anyone is interested I can post the crib sheet I made as I installed it.
> >
> >   
> Please post it Folderol, it could be really nice when Squeeze goes to 
> stable !
> Thanks in advance,
> Fred
> 

Wow!, I wasn't expecting that much interest. OK here it is:


install from disk and unmark 'desktop' and 'standard'

log in as root

using apt-get-install
	xorg
	synaptic	pulls in sudo and a lot of useful base level stuff
	python-dbus
	openbox
	obconf
	rox-filer

in /etc/sudoers add line:
	{username}  ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/synaptic, /sbin/halt, /sbin/reboot

run startx, xterm, rox, obconf to create default files
	create ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh with:
		rox -S &

using apt-get-install
	mingetty
		in /etc/inittab change:
			respawn:/sbin/getty   38400  tty1
		to:
			respawn:/sbin/mingetty --autologin {username} --noclear
tty1

add to end of /home/{username}/.bash_profile
	startx


use iceweasel to fetch the following rox apps
	rox-lib2
		tar xvjf rox-lib2*
		as root move contents to /usr/local/lib/

	archive
		tar xvjf archive*
		can now use archive to unpack others

	rox-Clib_xxx
                move as /usr/lib/ROX-CLib

	traylib
		rename to just TrayLib and as root move to /usr/local/lib/

	devtray		so we can use usb sticks in ROX

from the desktop install:
	libusb-1.0-0
	inkscape
	k3b
	kcalc
	kchars
	krename
	kwrite
	gftp
	gimp
	gkrellm
	gnome-system-monitor
	gparted


for audio

install the following:		enable audio when asked
	qjackctl	pulls in a lot!
	alsamixergui
	alsaplayer-jack
	alsa-utils
	ardour
	audacious
	audacity
	easytag
	hydrogen
	jack-rack
	jamin
	japa
	lillypond
	meterbridge
	qsynth
	rakarrack
	timemachine
	vkeybd
	vorbis-tools

as root
	alsactl init		(ignore errors)
	reboot and use alsamixer to bring up levels (will be silent otherwise)


 temporarily add the following to repositories:
	deb cdrom:[64studio 3.3-alpha2 (1)]/ karmic main
        deb http://apt.64studio.com/backports/ hardy-backports main
        	ignore errors
        install multimedia kernel 2.6.29
	disable these repositories but keep then 'just in case'
	reboot and select new kernel

 check for RT kernel with uname -a
	should include PREEMP and RT

 edit /etc/default/grub
	change
	  GRUB_DEFAULT=0
	to
	  GRUB_DEFAULT={number of wanted menu item as default, counting from 0}
	run 'update-grub'


for compiling music progs:
	automake
	build-essential
	cmake
	cmake-curses
	dssi-dev
	fluid
	git-all
	libasound2-dev
	libfftw3-dev
	libjack-dev
	liblircclient-dev
	liblo-dev
	liblrdf0-dev
	libmxml-dev
	libqt4-dev
	libsamplerate0-dev
	libsndfile1-dev
	libxml++2.6-dev
	subversion
	xutils-dev
	zlib1g-dev

compile and standard install lame


-- 
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.