[LAU] No joy with AVlinux

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Hi Folderol and list!

I think your debian LA config crib sheet should've been a new thread
as I can see this spawning a lot of debate and tweaks. When I'm
feeling better I may modify yours to how I do it but as for now I'll
just address a couple of standout points:

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Folderol <folderol at ukfsn.org> wrote:
> 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:
>> >>>
>> >>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> >>>> Hash: SHA1
>> >>>>
>> >>>> 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


Rox filer? Not for me squire. When it was a gtk1 app it was lightning
fast but then when it switched to gtk2 it lost all appear for me. No
RMB on file to copy (ie having to open the target dir in a new window)
is a bit of a bind. Thunar FTW! ;)

>
> 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
>

All that can be dropped if the user forgoes rox of course.

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

You seem to be aiming for lightweight here. Unless you need its
advanced features I'd use mtpaint instead of gimp. I use filezilla
instead of gftp for GUI ssh/ftp coz its cross platform.

>
>
> 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

Could add many many more to this list but I suspect most here know
what apps they want.
>
> as root
>        alsactl init            (ignore errors)
>        reboot and use alsamixer to bring up levels (will be silent otherwise)

Then

alsactl store 0 (or whatever its alsa device number is)

>
>
>  temporarily add the following to repositories:
>        deb cdrom:[64studio 3.3-alpha2 (1)]/ karmic main

Don't think you meant to include this first line- most won't have the
64studio CD/DVD

>        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

You can vastly reduce the amount of dev packages you list here with a simple

apt-get build-dep ardour

Which will get most of the dev packages a LAU would want in one shot
(but not autoconf and subversion/ git to name a few notable
exceptions)

HTH?

Dan
>
> 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.
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