28 Jul
2003
28 Jul
'03
2:10 p.m.
Greg Reddin wrote on Mon, 28-Jul-2003:
I downloaded the tarball from the Ardour site. It
configured and
compiled without problems. The interesting thing is that the first
time I started Ardour, my computer completely locked up. The mouse
wouldn't move, I couldn't switch apps using the keyboard. I figure
that if I had it connected to a network I could've SSH'd in and
killed some processes, but it wasn't connected, so I shut it down.
Upon rebooting I had to run fsck to recover my filesystem. Not an
extremely painful experience. After I got everything booted back up,
I said "what the heck, I'll try it again", and this time it did not
crash. I was able to import some wave files and play around with it.
I was not able to record using my laptop's mic, but I haven't really
tried to debug that yet, and it's not terribly important at this
point.
Be sure you are not using ext3 with certain versions of the 2.4.20
kernel. Jan's page should have covered this I think, so this
might not have been the issue.
I wanted to do some more experimenting, so I
downloaded and installed
wxWindows-GTK and Freqtweak, compiled, and installed them. For some
reason Freqtweak gives me an error when I try to run it. Something
about cannot load wxGTK-2.4.1.so, no such file or directory. I
suppose I need to learn something about installing shared libraries
and making them available to other applications. Any tips would be
appreciated.
Hmm. When you installed wxGTK from source, it probably went into
/usr/local/lib (unless you specified --prefix=/usr on the configure
line). You need to make sure that this is in your library path.
The easiest way is to edit your /etc/ld.so.conf file and add a
line with '/usr/local/lib'. Then run 'ldconfig'.
Hope this helps....
jlc