Greetings:
Sorry to be a pain, but I'm having so much trouble installing and
configuring Mandrake 8.2 that I'm beginning to doubt whether it can be
done. Here's a partial list of my trials and tribulations:
1. The CD drive is actually a Toshiba DVD drive. Mandrake installed all
right from it but afterwards is unable to read from any disc I insert.
All I get is an uninformative "input/output error".
2. The sound configuration is a joke, right ? I boot into KDE and hear
the KDE tune just fine, but when I try to run any bundled sound
application (XMMS, MIDI synth, etc) I get an error saying that the
output device is unreachable. When I test sound using the Drake tool it
says it's playing an 8-bit sample but I hear nothing. The tool asks only
if you do or do not hear the sample, it offers no advice on what to do
if you don't hear anything.
3. The Internet configuration informs me that I have no connection even
when I do.
4. The GCC 2.96 is weird, yes ? When I ran ./configure for the latest
ALSA I get an error telling me that the C compiler cannot produce
executables. This, whether I'm normal user or root. Whafug??!!
So is it just me or are these well-known problems with Mandrake ? I'm
setting up two machines here, both experience the same problems with
Mandrake 8.2. I'm going to reinstall it once more then I'll give up and
move on to Red Hat. The only reason I'm installing it at all is because
the client wants it. Any and all advice will be vastly appreciated !
Best regards,
== Dave Phillips
The Book Of Linux Music & Sound at http://www.nostarch.com/lms.htm
The Linux Soundapps Site at http://linux-sound.org
Currently listening to: John Coltrane, "After The Rain"
Hi all,
I asked this once a couple of years ago, but not only do I not remember the
answer (I think it may have been it's ok to post here but we should really
rename the list), but the answer may have changed since then.
For Linux MIDI topics (not audio, but MIDI), what would be the most
appropriate list to post on? For my purposes, I think alsa-user since ALSA is
what I use. Any thoughts? I take it that there is not a linux-midi-users
list!
Larry
Hello,
I just released a new version of tapiir. Tapiir now supports jack.
Tapiir can be found at
http://www.iua/~mdeboer/projects/tapiir/
Tapiir is a simple and flexible audio effects processor, inspired on
the classical magnetic tape delay systems used since the early days
of electro-acoustic music composition. It provides a graphical user
interface consisting of six delay lines, or "taps", which can
introduce an almost arbitrarily big or small delay to their inputs
and can be feed back to each other.
A wide set of effects can be easily achieved by properly configuring
and connecting the delay lines: complex echo patterns, resonances,
filtering, etc. Delays, interconnections and gains can all be
controlled in real time.
Maarten
I know that there are quite a few musicians on this list so I thought
they might be interested in this (if they didn't already know about it).
I was reading an article yesterday (I don't remember where) that was
talking about the BSA fining businesses for unlicensed software. Lo and
behold, the first business cited (for 8 unlicensed copies of M$) was
Ernie Ball/Music Man. Apparently they got stung for $90,000.00 US. The
article stated that Ernie Ball immediately switched to "open source" and
never looked back. Being a curious person, I sent an email to Ernie
Ball to find out what "open source" meant. The answer is Red Hat
Linux. It's nice to see a fairly large music business getting the
message.
It appears that the BSA may be one of open source's biggest allies.
Jan
Just a quick question. After installing Redhat 8, I'm a bit concerned by the
follwing line in my /proc/interrupts:
10: 476 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci, EMU10K1
Aside from the extreme nausea resulting from learning that my sacred MIDI port
is being put in the same office as the disgusting mundane usb port, is this
a performance issue if I'm not actually using the usb port?
I suspect there is a bit of a hit because the interrupt handler now has to
poll all the sources, but I maybe not - I understand the principles of
interrupt handling but not the specifics of the PCI bus or the linux kernel.
So do I need to do something about this, or not?
Larry
I've just checked in a new ebuild for rosegarden-4 0.8.5.
(media-sound/rosegarden) it's currently masked.
I'd appreciate any feedback letting me know if i can move it to stable
- i don't have the midi hardware to do much testing.
Cheers
j.
Hi everyone,
I'm quite new to linux (and linux-audio) and have some basic questions
regarding the audio tools on linux.
I'm running Mandrake 9.0 with a patched 2.4.20 kernel and finally
managed to install most of the applications I need (thanks to Thac's
RPMs !!), mainly alsa, jack, ecasound, Muse, rosegarden, some
soft-synth, did not try ardour yet ;-). I think I still need to enable
capabilities in the kernel for jack, but I try to do things one by one.
When reading articles on low-latency linux, xruns are often mentionned
but I can not figure what it exactly means, could someone explain me
that -surely- simple thing ?
The other question is about jack. Does Jack enable synchronisation
between HD recorder (ecasound, ardour) and midi sequencer (Muse for
example) ? I saw something about the transport feature of jack, but does
not know exactly what it does.
Many Thank,
Christophe
Takashi (and All), thanks for you help but I still cant get it to work...
I downloaded the latest RC7 and built with --with-debug=detect
on the configure line.
./utils/alsaconf finds the OPL3SA2 but the module still wont load.
One of the messages ends with detect=0xFF or the like I'm sorry,
I forgot the exact line.
How do i tell the pnp Id ? pnpdump has a line with YMH0800/-1 in it
and there are lots of YMH0020 and YMH0021's floating around but as
I'm a bit of a newbie I'm not quite sure where to look !
Thanks again to all for your help.
Is there anything else I can do ?
Chris.
> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 12:50:43 +0100
> From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai(a)suse.de>
> To: linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu
> Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Alsa with OPL3-SA2 on Asus Laptop
> Reply-To: linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu
>
> At Thu, 13 Feb 2003 17:43:34 -0000,
> Chris Bray wrote:
> >
> > Hi All;
> >
> > I've been trying for a couple of days now to get
> > any sound from my laptop (rebadged Asus L7000,
> > Slackware 8.1, vanilla 2.4.20) and seem to be
> > getting nowhere fast.
> >
> > I've tried OSS/Free and Alsa (0.9.0rc2 and 0.5.12a)
> > and can't seem to get anything working.
> >
> > OSS just hangs as I modprobe the module, no log entries
> > or anything I can find.
> >
> > isapnp.conf contains all the settings that Windows
> > is using and everytime I try to get it running with
> >
> > modprobe snd-opl3sa2 (or snd-card-opl3sa2)
> >
> > I get
> > "Yamaha OPL3-SA Soundcard not found or device busy"
>
> build the alsa driver once with --with-debug=detect.
> it will show you more verbose kernel messages.
>
> also, check whether your pnp id matches with one of
> YMH0020:YMH0021, YMH0030:YMH0021, YMH0800:YMH0021, NMX2200:NMX2210
> where the ids are card:device.
>
>
> Takashi
Hi everybody,
Been on linux for about 1 year now. Realy super experience after my
headache-period with M$.
But I ran into troubles now... Reïnstalled my MDK 9.0 (different
partition usage). At initial startup (before installing extra software)
ALSA works fine, no troubles at all. After I installed the software,
after a needed reboot, if I want to open my "alsamixergui" I get an
error: no mixers found... No sound at all, even not running XMMS on
OSS-out...I installed (almost) everything sound-related from mirrors I
got from PLF.
Did check soundcard settings, seems some program changed the driver for
my SBlive to audigy.... (weird to me) Tried applying the old driver. It
worked for the OSS, not for alsa, nor for esound... (yes esound doesn't
allow any sound either) and yes, I suppose the mixers are not set to 0..
although I can't check that...
Why o why does this happen?? Already noticed that turning off my
Evolution-usb-keyboard during rebooting was needed, because of probs
with alsactl during boot...
Could anybody plz give me a clue howto solve this prob?
And in addition to this, does anybody feel like expaining to me why
(even on my previous setup) rosegarden doesn't produce any hearable
sound? (yes the vu-meters move when I play an added track, but no sound
is heard, and yes, jack is running (as root, right?)
THX
Karel alias 'Moeflon'
John Bleichert <syborg(a)stny.rr.com> writes:
> If you're using e.g. the kernel drivers from nVidia, you'll need to
> download the source tarballs for them from nVidia's site. The drivers are
> tied tightly to the kernel version, and must be rebuilt each time you
> rebuild your kernel.
>
> Assuming the nvidia drivers, just keep the 2 source directories around
> from the GLX and kernel drivers, and just jump in there and 'make install'
> real quick each time you rebuild your kernel.
No... I've got an old 3dfx Banshee... gl... the drivers have been
working better than the ones it shipped with.
For the time being, I've killed it though. I've spent too much
time at that and not enough trying to glue snd and common music
to scwm {with emacs, texemacs ...maybe lilypond or musictex, moho
and guile in there as well.} I just set up a stock thing...
{I found this nifty scheme-like animation language/system called
al {one of the first links under animation at linuxlinks.com} .
...Considering the possibilities of scheme and common music...
and... how much I like all of the above mentioned apps..It seems
as though it will make the ideal system for me.}
Thanks though.
Anyone know of synths or sequencers that will tie into the above mess?
