Rachel, On Monday 16 February 2004 10:30 pm, Frank Barknecht wrote: I agree up to this point. It is precisely what I have done. I feel that I should point out that the AGNULA developers don't recommend installing it on anything other than a very basic 'Woody' install. I'm not saying don't do it - Agnula unstable works very well on top of Sarge, but there are some critical differences with the set up which you may come up against and there are no standard answers for. So no guarantees, no safety net, but hey, this /is/ Linux after all :-] I still think this is _probably_ the best option, but have a browse through all this first :-] http://www.agnula.org/download/demudi/demudi_1_1_0_apt http://www.agnula.org/documentation/dp_tutorials http://lurker.agnula.org/list/users_at_lists_agnula_org.html The reason for this caution is that Agnula-1.1.0 is built on top of a 'Sid' snapshot which is not in sync with 'Sarge'. My way round this has been to temporarily disable all sources apart from the ones explicitly mentioned in the Agnula download instructions when upgrading or installing multimedia software. Then you just have to be careful about not accidentally upgrading those packages when you upgrade the other packages from 'Sarge'. (I'm assuming this is what you are using). If all you want is the kernel, this may not be an issue at all. This is all from personal experience as a relative newbie. For my own purposes I'd be very interested in comments from anyone else who is making music using Debian Sarge. The Agnula bods are amazed that I get anything to work at all on my system, I think it's the way to go and I would be glad of more people to compare notes(sic) with but it does neeed a little more work :-] cheers tim hall

Hallo, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki hat gesagt: // Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: Personally I run Debian unstable, sometimes even experimental. As Ardour is a loooong compile using lots of diskspace, I just use the Debian packages in unstable for convenience. ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__

Thanks for your post, Eric. On Tuesday 17 February 2004 4:54 pm, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: AFAIK DeMuDi existed before Agnula (which is the funded project) and both are likely to continue pretty much hand in hand once the funding ends in ?April. The project doesn't look likely to come to a sudden end, more likely just open up a bit more. I don't really have a big enough / fast enough box to compile my own, or that much experience doing it that way. Using the Agnula packages has given me a way of at least looking at the applications everyone is talking about. Even if they don't all work 100% properly, yet. I've been having great fun spinning softsynths through Jack-Rack, but I'm still having problems to get really useable results from MusE, Rosegarden or Ardour (as I say, Yet). My standards are probably rather high. This is a combination of my lack of understanding & probably slightly dodgy config & the immaturity of these apps. I'm confident that all these factors will change over the course of the year. There may be certain apps that I need to compile specifically for the system. Swami may be one, I'm probably most concerned about using original sound patches and the Debian package 'smurf' does not work. I'm going to stick with my Agnula unstable / Sarge system for now & see how it goes. cheers tim hall