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by Austin Acton

First, thank you all very much for your answers. I can't believe the response... a lot of great ideas in less than 24 hours. If anyone else has ideas, please let me know, as the project is far from over. The developers' mailing list at Mandrake is buzzing with audio talk now. :-) Here are the major complaints about Mandrake 9.0 in general, with comments. Where applicable, I will forward the suggestions or problems to the appropriate developers at Mandrake. 1. Supermount problems in 9.0 This is well known. This month a few people have been patching up supermount for 9.1. As for 9.0, most people find the problems tolerable, but you can easily disable supermount on afflicted drives by editing 'supermount' out of your /etc/mtab and /etc/fstab files. 2. Desire for unpatched kernel Mandrake has always included an unpatched version of the kernel. It is called kernel-linus rather than kernel, and is not installed by default. You can install it with # urpmi kernel-linus 3. Problems with alsa sound quality on certain devices If these are alsa-specific problems (occur on other distros), please report them to alsa-project.org. If they are Mandrake specific, it would be nice if you could test the 9.1beta2 release to see if we have fixed it yet. If not, please report to http://qa.mandrakesoft.com. 4. Drakx (our installer) too simplistic With most new distros tending toward MORE simplistic installers, I have a hard time understanding this. Try expert mode first. If that's still too simple for you, you're welcome to make suggestions at mailto:cooker@mandrakesoft.com our developers' mailing list. We have added a rudimentary sound card and sound system (alsa/oss) configurator in the Mandrake Control Panel, so you can change sound system and card quite easily at any time. 5a. Drakx doesn't detect/configure USB audio Pixel, the mastermind behind our installer was very surprised by this. He says if you send him your /proc/bus/usb/devices list, he will fix the problem. The exception is the Extigy. Currently it's not detected, and they're not sure if we can include the drivers for it. 6. Drakx installs too much by default I assume this is to help new users get a semi-complete distro in one step. As you mentioned, the alternative is to select no "categories" of packages, and select packages individually. We offer both methods. 7. No low latency patch Currently we have a mini-low latency patch in our main kernel. I 'think' we are waiting for the rest to be officially incorporated into the main kernel, but I'm not sure. I'll ask. A fully patched low-latency kernel has been available on the Mandrake Club website for 8.2 and 9.0 for some time now though. Not sure if it will be default in 9.1 or not. I hope so. 8. Libraries and header files are in separate RPMs and must be installed separately We do this because the average user doesn't need header files and they take up extra space. It is not true that they must be installed separately though. If you urpmi the -devel package, the library package will be installed automatically, but not vice versa. 9. Can't run jack unless root I don't know much about this, or whether it's true or not in 9.1. I've asked some people to look into it. Could someone tell me what commands they would like to execute but can't? Now for requested applications. To my surprise, most of these we do not include. I will do my best to get most of them included in 9.1. Some others we already include, or can't include. I'll comment below. Requested that we include already: snd mplayer Requested that we can't include: cinelerra (includes mp3 encoder) lame (ditto) both may be available at plf.zarb.org, a site run by outlaws :-) realplay (proprietary, available at www.mandrakeclub.com) Requested that we don't plan to include: broadcast 2000 (obsolete, hard to maintian) Requested that I know Tobbe is working on currently: ardour qjackconnect csound cecelia rtsynth swami muse pd ceres vkeyb all are available for Mandrake 9.0 at: http://rpm.nyvalls.se/sound9.0.html but are completely unsupported They will be in 9.1 for sure. Requested that I will personally look into: kaconnect amsynth spiral* (won't compile with gcc 3.2.1, will need to ask author to fix) freqtweak jmax seq24 Finally for favorite apps. I wanted to know what apps we should focus on, as well as estimate how well we are doing at including popular apps. Favorite apps we include: 56% of votes Favorite apps we don't include (yet): 38% of votes Favorite apps we can't/won't include: 6% of votes So it looks like we're not doing too bad! Looks like 9.1 could include 94% of your favorite apps. I really want to thank you all again for your help. Mandrake 9.1 should be released in April. Until then feel free to ask questions, pose suggestions, and submit bug reports. I will be on this list indefinitely I hope, as I'm a heavy Audacity user. :-) Austin -- Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc. Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto MandrakeClub Volunteer (www.mandrakeclub.com) homepage: www.groundstate.ca

22 years, 10 months

[linux-audio-user] Using Audigy 2 in Linux

by Carles Barrobes

Hi all, I'd like to know whether someone has succeeded using Audigy 2 under Linux. I'm using the latest emu10k1 driver downloaded from soundforge (v0.20a) on a Mandrake 9.0 with ALSA 0.9rc2. The driver seems to be sending analog audio output to a digital out only jack that results in the audio signal coming out from there totally distorted. No sound is coming from analog outputs. I can't manage to get it to send the signal to the right analog output. I have 5.1 analog speakers. Anyone out there that has managed to make this setup work will be welcome to enlighten me. Hint: the Audigy 2 is slightly different from Audigy (1) which does seem to use the jack labelled digital out for both analog and digital output, depending on setup. Probably the driver as-is works with Audigy. I'm looking specifically for Audigy 2 users. Thanks a lot in advance, C A R L E S

22 years, 10 months

[linux-audio-user] MDK audio distro survey

by Austin Acton

Hello all, I'm a major contributor and volunteer at Mandrake, and I've been working to get Mandrake up-to-date and more complete with regard to audio applications, so I thought this would be a good place to come for advice. If you have a few minutes, please answer any of the following questions you can. Doing so will help make Mandrake 9.1 the best audio distribution on the planet... 1. If Mandrake 9.0 is your primary distribution for audio, what is your #1 complaint? 2. If Mandrake 9.0 is not your primary distribution for audio, why not? What is missing or what has turned you away? 3. What audio applications are we missing (please check current list provided below, as many new apps have been added since 9.0)? 4. What thee audio applications do you consider the most valuable/important? (do not include alsa, jack, mixers, or ogg/mp3 players/encoders) Thanks very much. I appreciate your time, and please let me know personally if there is anything else I can do to make Mandrake more audio-friendly. Austin -- Austin Acton Hon.B.Sc. Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto MandrakeClub Volunteer (www.mandrakeclub.com) homepage: www.groundstate.ca -- Audio Apps Currently in Mandrake 9.1 developer version: (apps including mp3 encoders or java bytecode are forbidden) abcde aconnectgui adplay alsaplayer (+many plugins) audacity aumix beep brahms cantus cdcd cdp cdparanoia cdrecord cdtool cheesetracker cmt cvoicecontrol dagrab dap easytag ecasound ecawave emusic ermixer extace flac freebirth galan glame gnoise gnome-alsamixer gnusound gphone gqmpeg gramophile grip gstreamer (+many plugins) id3ed id3lib id3tool id3v2 iiwusynth jack jack-rack kexis kguitar kmusicdb ladspa libopneal libsamplerate libsndfile libtse mad mhwavedit mikmod monkey-media mp32ogg mp3blaster mp3c mp3info mp3_check mpg123 mp321 muse normalize oggre playmidi protux pyecasound radio rezound rythymbox rio500 ripenc ripperX rosegarden sakuraplayer sc68 sidplay sidtools smurf snack snackamp soundtracker sox speex streamripper sulu sweep swh-plugins synaesthesia timidity tkecasound tse3 tsid uade volnorm vorbistools volume.app vsound walk500 wavesurfer whamp wmix xastir xhippo xmmp xmms (+many plugins) xmp xosd xsidplay yamt zinf zynaddsubfx

22 years, 10 months

[linux-audio-user] slightly OT : glibc 2.3

by iriXx

hi all slightly ot... but relevant as i'm finding a lot of the newer releases need glibc2.3.... im running mandrake 9.0... which comes with glibc 2.2.5 i know i've killed several installs trying to upgrade glibc by hand... i really dont want to kill off this one just as i've got cvs alsa working... does anyone know the list of applications that depend on glibc, so i can get upgrades for them all? my modem isnt working at the moment under GNU/Linux so i need to grab them while i'm in the Evil OS.... and i cant use urpmi :(..... thanx m~ -- iriXx www.iriXx.org copyleft: creativity, technology and freedom? info(a)copyleftmedia.org.uk www.copyleftmedia.org.uk _ ( ) ascii ribbon against html email X / \ cat /dev/sda1 > /dev/dsp *** stopping make sense ***

22 years, 10 months

RE: [linux-audio-user] problem with snd

by Reuben Martin

>> Sounds like whatever graphical display you are trying to use is >> trying to access an OpenGL related function (Or some kind of function >> that has to do with 3D). The nv driver used for Nvidia cards supports >> 2D ONLY. I would recommend going to Nvidia's web site and downloading >> the latest driver and GLX driver that fits your distro configuration. >> Then see if that fixes your problem. Basically the message is telling >> you that it's trying to access something that simply does not exist >> for the display device. > >Or you might avoid the kernal stability and latency problems that some >people have with the nvidia drivers by sticking with the nv X driver, >and installing the version of the OpenGL shared library that does all >the 3D magic in software and thus won't ask the X server to do it. It >is probably in another RPM package, at least, that's the way SuSE has >handled this. I tried this but it was extremely slow. I didn't mess with it to see if I could get it to work better because I had no problems with the Nvidia drivers. > >> Also, I doubt this is an ALSA problem, so always make sure that you >> check to be sure that you have narrowed the problem down to an ALSA >> specific problem before posting it on this list. > >Reuben Martin is confused as to which list he is responding to. Oops. Sorry 'bout that. I tend to jump around reading from different lists and forget which one I'm on. My apologies.

22 years, 10 months

[linux-audio-user] Why we need graphic designers

by Steve Harris

http://www.applied-acoustics.com/tassman.htm Bugger Free Software, if they port this think to Linux they can have my 400 EuroBucks. Even thier module routing display is attractive and easy to read: http://www.applied-acoustics.com/images/builderscreen_big.jpg If this Linux stuff flops, I'm buying me a Mac ;) - Steve

22 years, 10 months

[linux-audio-user] linux and "enhanced" CDs

by Anthony Perez-Miller

Greetings, Recently I picked up Peter Gabriel's _Up_ disc. In the fine print on the outside of the case it says "This is an enhanced CD. Please put it in your computer." Of course, the finer print inside says that by "computer" they mean a PC or a Mac. My linux box won't recognize the executable to play the durn thing: it's encoded so that on a CD-ROM the tracks can't be accessed directly. Two questions: 1) Is there a linux utility that can deal with such? 2) (Somewhat off-topic for this list) I'm presuming the answer to 1) is "no." If this is the case: When I boot up the Windows side of my (dual-boot) system, and put in the disc, the executable brings up a menu one option of which is "play." If I click on this it starts the generic Windows CD player, which is of course useless for, well, turning the songs into ogg files. How would I set up a symbolic link in Windows, so that a call for the generic CD player brings up, say, musicmatch? I can usually deal with these things in linux but I'm not very confident messing things around in Windows. I know Micro$oft products aren't the usual topic of discussion on this list; I promise not to make a habit of these sorts of questions. Thanks! --Anthony

22 years, 10 months

RE: [linux-audio-user] Sony PCM-F1 to digital

by eviltwin69＠cableone.net

I actually have a Sony PCM. If you'd like to send me a copy of the tape I'll be glad to dump it for you. Jan -----Original Message----- From: "linux-audio-user-admin(a)music.columbia.edu" <linux-audio-user-admin(a)music.columbia.edu> on behalf of "al goldstein" <gold(a)dsl21.zipcon.net> Sent: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 23:22:48 -0800 (PST) To: "linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu" <linux-audio-user(a)music.columbia.edu> Subject: [linux-audio-user] Sony PCM-F1 to digital Help!! ?? Is there any way to go from a video tape in the Sony PCM-F1 format to digital other than playing it on a Sony PCM 601?? Thanks

22 years, 10 months

[linux-audio-user] Added Jack support to ZynAddSubFX ;-)

by Nasca Paul

Hi, I added Jack support to ZynAddSubFX (1.0.6). See at http://sourceforge.net/projects/zynaddsubfx or http://zynaddsubfx.sourceforge.net. Paul. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com

22 years, 10 months

[linux-audio-user] preferred motherboards ?

by Dave Phillips

Greetings: I'm configuring a system for a friend whose musical needs are quite simple, but in the course of things he asked me which motherboards are preferred by Linux audio people. I confess I'm not very savvy about the subject, but I figured some of you folks would lend your opinions regarding suitable boards for either amateur or professional use. Of course I'd also like to know if there are particular boards I should avoid. TIA ! 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

22 years, 10 months

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