31 May
2011
31 May
'11
1:41 p.m.
On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 12:26 +0800, Simon Wise wrote:
I only can use Jack2 from svn, if it shouldn't be available, than I'll
build it myself. This is regarding to hw MIDI jitter. Only Jack2 is hard
real-time capable regarding to this issue.
What
repositories should I use to set up a stable DAW? Btw. my list is
attached and I will compare it with your suggestions I already received
later.
Is there a repository including JACK2 from svn?
To use jack2 you should be using sid or perhaps testing, not stable. Debian installs with only the 'main' archives
enabled. First thing to do is add
'non-free' and 'contrib' archives to your sources.list. You will note
that
there is quite a few documentation packages in non-free, as well as the various
distributable but not open-source firmware blobs for important bits of hardware.
Ok.
The inclusion of jack2 was done in such a way that you
can switch between them,
without changing anything else. It was decided that they are alternative
versions which will each remain available, along with any other implementation
with a compatible API. Packages may also depend on one or the other if this is
really required. This was tricky and wasn't fully ready before the freeze for
squeeze several months ago. A mixed stable/testing system will be asking for
trouble here.
Ok. Might be the same style as for Ubuntu, hence I'll build dummy
packages and install Jack2 from svn. No big deal.
So - if you want to use the current DAW packages that
are part of debian,
especially if you want to run jack2, you need to be using sid and not using
stable. Then they are part of debian main, no other repositories required.
*?* I don't need Jack from a repository, I just asked, because this
would be less work.
Definitely DO NOT use
http://www.debian-multimedia.org, the changes it makes to
the various libraries and mplayer etc will give you mp3 encoding and a bunch of
codecs that are not in debian, but the cost is it will often break the DAW
packages that are not maintained in this repository ... they rely on those
libraries in the debian form.
This is the list Robin did post:
# SQUEEZE
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib
non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main
deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main
# WHEEZY
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org wheezy main
deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org wheezy main
# SID
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main
deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main
For using those codecs install an alternative
distribution like Mint and chroot
or reboot when you need them.
And here they are, the issues:
-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf(a)alice-dsl.net>
To: debian-user(a)lists.debian.org
Cc: Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu(a)gmail.com>
Subject: XORG.CONF or a solution without xorg.conf needed
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 13:18:15 +0200
-------- Was --------
From: Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu(a)gmail.com>
To: debian-user(a)lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Until now Debian seems to be the right decision :),
better performance than Ubuntu
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 09:00:43 +0300
On Lu, 30 mai 11, 19:14:58, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Until now it's an upgraded, minimal system, just a stable install,
excepted of Evolution and dependencies, those are from testing.
See above, to use jack2, and the huge amount of work done in the last 9 months
by debian multimedia maintainers you can't be using stable, and a mixed system
will get you into trouble sooner rather than later. This work is continuing very
quickly, but will not be in stable until wheezy becomes the new stable in 2013.
In debian terms "stable" means unchanging, frozen, fully predictable, security
related fixes only ... for a three year lifespan while "unstable" means
changing, volatile, updated with new work, versions and such like and "testing"
means the candidate for the next stable.
I can't help with evolution.
For Debian I still need to set up a xorg.conf, hopefully it will keep in
good shape ;). I suspect many issues regarding to the way X is handled
today.
This is where I find aptosid is useful to install my minimal debian. Not quite
minimal, but there isn't much extra if you use the 1 cd xfce version, then add
gnome or KDE if you prefer them. It is almost entirely pure debian except their
kernel (you can use the debian one if you prefer), a few bugfixes and a few
scripts to hold back broken versions of updates so a dist upgrade brings you
fully up to date
For Debian I still need to set up a xorg.conf,
Why do you think so?
Regards,
Andrei
Hi Andrei :)
I don't think so, it's a declarative statement.
I guess nobody wish to have a vertically frequency of 60Hz ;), it's not
very pleasant to look into a stroboscope. In addition I wish to be able
to select the screen resolution I like, 1152x864 @ 90Hz.
Then I have several needs and need several drivers. I'm used to switch
the drivers automatically at startup, by adding
rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
case $(uname -r) in
*rt*)
cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.nv /etc/X11/xorg.conf
;;
*)
cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.nvidia /etc/X11/xorg.conf
;;
esac
to /etc/rcS.d.
At the moment I urgently need help regarding to xorg.conf or any other
solution that enables me to select the driver, and to get 1152x864 @
90Hz.
The graphics is a NVIDIA GeForce 7200 GS aka 7300 SE. The CRT monitor is
an Lifetec/Medion MD1998JB J91B.
I never had issues with old Debian/Ubuntu and Suse installs. I ordered
some new gear, a RME HDSPe AIO sound card + a 8 analog IO ADAT device
and some other stuff. It was delivered yesterday, but it's still
packaged, because I'm unable to set up a new Linux DAW. Old Linux DAWs
are still available by backup archives ;).
At the moment for my Debian install, the mouse wheel isn't working, as
soon as I add a xorg.conf. Without an xorg.conf the mouse wheel seems to
work all the times. I stopped trying to use old xorg.confs.
I run Xorg -configure in recovery mode.
The mouse is a wired Trekker Wheel Mouse 2.0A PS/2.
This is what Xorg -configure generated
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
While for Ubuntu at least the frequency and resolution can be set by an
old xorg.conf, for Debian frequency and resolution are still not set :(.
Any help is very much appreciated.
Best,
Ralf