Asbjørn wrote> DeMuDi is Debian-based. And Debian does not ship
proprietary firmware.
Did you get the firmware from elsewhere?
The vxpocket modules are in Alsa 0.9.1 onward. I downloaded the latest
stable ALSA files from one of the alsa mirrors and tried to follow the
instructions. I've also just realised that I was trying to follow the
instructions on for the VXpocket 440 when I have the VXpocket V2. The
ALSA Soundcard page only links to the 440 page - though it looks like
the instructions are the same. Have you already tried re-compiling the
kernel?
Hamish
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Latest and greatest Jammer Pro6 works in latest wine from Debian Sid. No more
phantom subclassed buttons! Fantastic.
Caveats:
1. MIDI timing seems unsteady.
2. Button on a pop-up dialog that would repaint and replay the MIDI on the
main view does not work. See below.
Ntonyx Style Enhancer 4 will also install and play in wine!
Caveats:
1. NONE of the icons display--just gray boxes. (Their desktop link icon
sometimes does not display under Win98, sometimes it does. I do not know what
they are doing different than anyone else here.)
2. Button on a pop-up dialog that would repaint the main view and alter MIDI
play if be playing hangs up.
I suspect threading problems in the Wine emulation for both dialog-main
problems but not sure. Threading problems may also be effecting MIDI play
timing.
NOTE: ALL such programs need be run emulating NT,W2K or XP. Wine does NOT
support thunking.
Question: The new setup dialog (run wine with no argument an click configure)
apparently is not using the ~/.wine/config file. What does it use? I note
provision for more than one sound "driver" in that dialog--right now I only
have OSS (what I chose in ~/.wine/config because others did not work). So:
Are all the sound libraries on winelib as they were or do I need to download
separate alsa and jack, etc, packages to activate these options? (Using jack
might solve the timing issues.)
Question: Dx8 (or other) is required by some programs and their installation
does not find it. How do I get past this test and let wine do the rest?
Hi all,
Smack 0.3 is now out. Smack is a drum synth, 100% sample free. It's
built with LADSPA plugins and the Om modular synth. 11 new drums in
this release thanks to contributions from Thorsten Wilms. These are
mostly covering a harder sound though include some nice metallic
percussion, shakers and snares.
You need cvs om to use this release.
Get it at http://smack.berlios.de/
Cheers,
Loki
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 08:42 -0700, Tim Howard wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I need some advice (OK, a lot of advice) on what to do with my Linux
> > installation.
> >
> > Right now I am running FC3 + PlanetCCRMA, and I'm enjoying it a lot.
> > I'm using Ardour, Hydrogen, and a few other JACK compliant apps.
> > However, I have a few reasons for wanting to reinstall and/or upgrade
> > my distro.
> >
> > #1 I recently got some new hard drives which I would like to install.
> > #2 FC5 has just been released, and I'm curious to see what it's like.
> > #3 I tried to upgrade glibc on my current installation, and I <ahem>
> > "broke" it. I have pieced it back into a functioning system again,
> > but I doubt it will ever quite be the same.
> >
> > My first question is: Do I want to go to FC5? I don't think
> > PlanetCCRMA has anything for it yet, but I'm thinking of running it
> > OOTB. Is it usable for some simple use of JACK and friends? I hear
> > that it wouldn't have low latency. Is this true, and does that affect
> > me if I'm only recording one or two tracks at a time?
> >
> > Any help on this would be appreciated!
>
> The kernel that comes with FC5 is not going to give you the best
> performance. I'll release stuff in (hopefully) a week. I do have a
> kernel and the low level support stuff but there's a Festival happening
> here at CCRMA in a few days and I won't have _any_ time till it's over.
>
> Stay tuned to the Planet CCRMA mailing list...
> -- Fernando
>
Thanks a bunch, Fernando! I just realized last night that my system
(FC5 OOTB + Jack and Ardour) has about 42ms of latency, which I don't
think qualifies as low latency...
I do really like FC5, though. We'll stay tuned for a kernel release!
-TimH
Everything seems to be allright with midi, module snd-seq-midi is
loaded, Rosegarden says Midi OK, audio OK. ZynAddSubFx works when using
notation editor, but can't get PSR-273 keyboard to produce sound via
midi. I turned "PC mode" on from Yamaha, as the guidebook tells.
QSynth tells that using alsa_raw failed, could that be a problem?
Qjackctl shows these:
Readable / output ports:
62:Midi Through
64:Audigy MPU-401 (UART)
Writable / input ports
62:Midi Through
64:Audigy MPU-401 (UART)
65:Emu10k1 WaveTable
Soundcard : Audigy2
Hello everyone,
I need some advice (OK, a lot of advice) on what to do with my Linux
installation.
Right now I am running FC3 + PlanetCCRMA, and I'm enjoying it a lot.
I'm using Ardour, Hydrogen, and a few other JACK compliant apps.
However, I have a few reasons for wanting to reinstall and/or upgrade
my distro.
#1 I recently got some new hard drives which I would like to install.
#2 FC5 has just been released, and I'm curious to see what it's like.
#3 I tried to upgrade glibc on my current installation, and I <ahem>
"broke" it. I have pieced it back into a functioning system again,
but I doubt it will ever quite be the same.
My first question is: Do I want to go to FC5? I don't think
PlanetCCRMA has anything for it yet, but I'm thinking of running it
OOTB. Is it usable for some simple use of JACK and friends? I hear
that it wouldn't have low latency. Is this true, and does that affect
me if I'm only recording one or two tracks at a time?
Any help on this would be appreciated!
Thanks,
-TimH
(I am cc-ing the linux audio user list, in the hope of broadening
the audience and reaching someone able to help me sort this out.)
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 12:02:56PM +0100, Asbjørn Sæbø wrote:
> I am trying to get a Digigram VxPocket sound card working, and really
> need some advice on how to proceed.
> [Rest of previous post far below.]
In addition to what I have done before (see below), I have now created a
/etc/pcmcia/vxpocket.conf according to the description at the bottom of
the alsa-project page for the vxpocket card. And I have added the
necessary lines to /etc/modutils/alsa-base, and run update-modules.
The visible results of this is that
* The vx-* modules now seem to be loaded at boot
* The card is still not recognized by alsa (it is not listed in
/proc/asound/cards, and alsaconf does not find it).
* cardinfo no longer says "unsupported card", but "empty". It does
however list "IO 0x100-0x10f" and "IRQ 5" (or "IRQ 9d" or "IRQ o"(?)).
* "cardctl info" and "cardctl ident" hang when they come to the socket
containing the card.
* Restarting the pcmcia service gives the following error messages:
snegle:~# invoke-rc.d pcmcia restart
Shutting down PCMCIA services: /etc/init.d/pcmcia: line 173: kill: (4040) - No such process
done.
Starting PCMCIA services: cardmgr[4540]: watching 2 sockets
cardmgr[4540]: could not adjust resource: IO ports 0x100-0x4ff: Device or resource busy
cardmgr[4540]: could not adjust resource: IO ports 0x800-0x8ff: Device or resource busy
cardmgr[4540]: could not adjust resource: IO ports 0xc00-0xcff: Device or resource busy
cardmgr[4540]: could not adjust resource: memory 0xc0000-0xfffff: Input/output error
cardmgr[4540]: could not adjust resource: memory 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: Input/output error
cardmgr[4540]: could not adjust resource: memory 0x60000000-0x60ffffff: Input/output error
cardmgr[4540]: could not adjust resource: IO ports 0xa00-0xaff: Device or resource busy
done.
I am beginning to suspect that I am up against some pcmcia bug. And I
am, at least for now, out of ideas of what to try next to get this card
working. Suggestions, advice and tips are very welcome!
Asbjørn
--------------------------------------------------------------------
> The system is an ASUS L5000-series laptop running DeMuDi 1.2.1. The
> kernel is 2.6.12-3-multimedia.
>
> So far, I have installed the pcmcia-cs package and the hotplug package.
> (Do I need both of these? Do they conflict in any way?)
> From what I have read of documentation, it seems that with 2.6-kernels,
> hotplug is the way to go. Does having the "cardmgr" running interfere
> with this?
>
> I have also downloaded the alsa-firmware corresponding to the alsa
> version installed (1.0.9). (DeMuDi does not distribute this firmware.)
> I ran "./configure --disable-loader", "make" and "make install".
> This resulted in a set of files being placed under
> /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware, among them, it seems, files related to the
> vxpocket cards.
>
> The PCCard system itself seems to be working. At boot, a Yenta card bus
> bridge is found. And "cardinfo" seems to notice that the card is
> present, but only says "unsupported card".
>
> "alsaconf" does not find the card. Trying to load the snd-vxpocket
> module gives no errors, and the module seems to be loaded afterwards
> (see below), but the card is still not found by "alsaconf".
>
> I have tried to run "vxloader" (is that depreceated?), which gives the
> message "no VX-compatible cards found".
>
> Where do I go from here? How do I get the card to be recognized? And
> what do I do to get the firmware uploaded to the card?
>
>
> With kind regards
> Asbjørn Sæbø
>
>
>
> snegle:~# lsmod |grep vx
> snegle:~# modprobe snd-vxpocket
> Restoring ALSA mixer settings ... done.
> snegle:~# lsmod |grep vx
> snd_vxpocket 4288 0
> snd_vx_cs 14080 1 snd_vxpocket
> snd_vx_lib 36480 1 snd_vx_cs
> firmware_class 10624 1 snd_vx_lib
> pcmcia 28480 10 snd_vxpocket,snd_vx_cs
> pcmcia_core 52628 4
> snd_vx_cs,pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
> snd_pcm 96580 4
> snd_vx_lib,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> snd 58404 12
> snd_vx_cs,snd_vx_lib,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
> snegle:~#
Hello, 'smee again.
After an epic battle with my computer again (but you don't want to
hear about that) I've been able to do some updates to my site. Oh rats!
Is it REALLY 1:20am?
Ghost train is now oggificated and the level increased a little.
Awakening The Avenger has a drum track, although I really am not very
happy with it. Some of the instruments have also been re-balanced
slightly.
There are also a couple of new ones. The Devil's Tea Party should send
shivers down your spine if I've done it right, and Childhood Past will
hopefully evoke wistful memories and make you all go 'Ahhhhhh'. This,
at over 7min, is also probably the longest individual track I've
composed.
Now that I have a decent sound card I'm starting to do something I've
wanted to for quite some time; that is combine the best voices and
effects of my external synths with beautifully clean sounds I can get
from ZynAddSubFX
As usual the url is:
http://www.folderol.ukfsn.org
Enjoy!
--
F
I am having some problems compiling jack and some apps
for Kanotix, has anyone some advice (paths etc).
btw,
good sa
ref
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