Greets all,
I've got a nasty feeling I'm doing something stupid here, but i'm fed up
of doing it on my own.
sound blaster pci 128 ( ens1371 )
alsa0.9rc1
jack 0.44.0
I want to use jack-rack as a real time effects processor. The first
thing i'm not entirely comfortable about is that whatever audio I send
to the IN on my soundcard seems to get sent straight to the OUT ( i can
record stuff ok ). Then i'm starting jack:
[root@larry jordan]# jackd -R -d alsa -d hw:0
and the starting jack-rack ( as root, of course ). I've tried using the
-o -i options here too.
I get the following from jack_lsp:
[root@larry jordan]# jack_lsp
alsa_pcm:capture_1
alsa_pcm:capture_2
alsa_pcm:playback_1
alsa_pcm:playback_2
I've tried making what seemed like the sensible connections here with
jack_connect, but the sound i'm sending in either just gets echoed to
the output ( as per normal ), or I get hideous feedback.
Somebody, please help. Thanks, Jordan.
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
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
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
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~
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*** stopping make sense ***
>> 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.
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
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
