I have a crappy old HP P3 that I wanted to try making into a dedicated
linux audio system.
This machine runs ubuntu fairly happily, although I had to use the text
installer rather than the livecd installer.
When I try to boot the dynebolic livecd, it booted, but then it got
stuck trying to start X, saying something along the lines that it
couldn't find any graphics device.
Does anyone have dynebolic working on such a machine?
Should I just switch to a PCI video card?
Hi all.
I am having trouble getting my BCF2000 up and running on a new fedora
core 8 system. It was previously working on an older (core 2) system.
The usb device is seen by the computer (confirmed with lsusb), but it is
not listed on aconnect -o.
I'm sure I'm missing something stupid - any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
-Joe Dell'Orfano
I've been out of the loop for a while, so hoping I can get some
relatively unbiased opinions here as to the current state of various
distros.
I like ubuntu and use it for my business machine, but if Ubuntu studio
is not really up to studio 64 or whatever the current competition is,
I'll just do a dual boot. I'm not averse to compiling from source of
other lowish level tweaking, and I definitely want super low latency.
Cards are Presonus Firepod and M-Audio delta 66.
Thanks!
Iain
On a new machine I thought I give Ubuntustudio a try and it seems that
the lowlatency performance is much worse when the one of 64 Studio
(booted from a live cd) on the same machine. So it needs some tweaking,
are there any advices with UbuntuStudio? I read some past threads and
they deal for instance with changing the priorities of jackd and the
audioapplications but that improve the situation only slightly. I really
wonder about the magic of 64 Studio...
On the Ubuntuforums, which are a great resource even for Debian related
stuff anyway, there seems no talk about lowlatency settings, it concerns
only a minority.
Cheers,
Malte
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>That stuff shouldn't be necessary, not by editing files by hand at
>least. I'm not sure what 'magic' Ubuntu Studio Controls do, but
>they
>should do the trick. All you need to do is specify the memlock
>value in
>% and tick a box for raw1394.
I had trouble with freezes until I manually set my memlock to
unlimited in /etc/security/limits.conf ...even setting it to use
all of my RAM was not sufficient, it had to be "unlimited". Maybe
I'm crazy.
Roger
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is there a realtime-patch planned for 2.6.25.1 (maybe the next weeks) or is it
more save to take 2.6.24.4. i thought to take 2.6.25.1 when i configure a new
kernel, because this is the newest.
are there still problems in 2.6.25(.1) ?
tnx mike
cx
A good backup is essential. System Restore is not a good backup.
My backup:
rsync -av /home/roger /mnt/sdb1/rsync-home backs up my home to a second
hard drive. This is made into a script and run every night via an entry
in /etc/crontab .
I also make a regular backup image of both / and /home partitions, using
partimage, which is also ideal for Windows backups, including ntfs.
If you are mastering CD live systems, partimage would be an ideal way of
saving the whole system with custom settings and all, in case something
subsequently breaks it. It can gzip or bzip the image to save a lot of
space. And of course restore it if you break the system.
Best run from a live cd such as GParted Live. The partitions you wish to
back up must not be mounted, but you must mount the backup partition.
Roger
Hi all,
Well, name says it all, what do people like for an audio player?
I read this blog post and was wondering if there is something he
missed as i have somewhat similar experiences,
http://blog.brokenfunction.com/2008/04/26/why-arent-there-any-good-linux-me…
I've been using audacious and amarok and both seem to have there
problems. Amarok makes me think too much about searching and freaks
out parsing a lot of my collection and seem really, really stupid in a
few ways. Also i don't like it how it can't just play from the
collection, i.e when it finishes that album, just go onto the next,
etc. Audacious is ok in a no organisation at all way. I like all my
music to be easy to search and there is 200gb of it.
Aqualung seems technically just what i want, but the interface is not
my taste. I find it really ugly and a bit unfriendly.
So what are the options?
Loki
>I have a Focusrite Saffire LE and a clean install of Hardy final
>with
>the current -rt kernel on a MacBookPro.
>
>Jack takes up 100% CPU and then crashes. I have completed the
>steps of
>adding my user to the 'Disk' group for raw1394 access and setting
>the
>proper rt stuff in permissions.rules
>
Have you added your user to the audio group and set the proper
limits for the group in /etc/security/limits.conf?
Check this out:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudioPreparation
Also you could try using the 2.6.24-16-rt kernel which is working
great for me.
Roger
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