Re: Audio Production
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Da Rock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 11:50 +0200, marshc wrote: > > > > > > My only advice on this point is to subscribe to the multimedia list and > ask your questions there (I'll be watching this list too, have been for > some time now due to my htpc issues- I desperately want to use FreeBSD > for a/v, and I suffer the same issues you do in terms of multitasking in > the cpu level, but the main problem with BSD for me is the driver > problems). > > > >From my experience (and I use FreeBSD for many different needs), FreeBSD > can run a/v and multimedia programs, write to multiple components > simultaneously, serve a small amount services, run X, and still respond > happily to your hammering at the CPU while it serves you coffee! It is > mainly dependent on your hardware capabilities (dma, bus bandwidth, > buffers, etc), and obviously the quality of the programs you run. If you > run a shitty program that is poorly written then it won't go as well, > but still perform admirably. But most of the programs ported wouldn't > have been added if they were like that, so you're mostly safe. > > So for a/v I find it performs far better than linux. Linux I still have > trouble with, but it performs better than window$. Linux is a happy > medium in between, and I'll explain why; > > Driver support for the more advanced hardware is not always forthcoming > with FreeBSD, but it is for linux. Most manufacturers aren't very > supportive of open source, and if they do they usually gravitate toward > a linux base because of user popularity. On the upside, there is a > brilliant coder who is extending the linux compat base for hardware side > as well, but you do need to be nearly expert. It is controversial, but > you should be able to use the hardware until native drivers are written. > > Just to clarify, in the development side of FreeBSD there is some > mention of Hats (correct me of I'm wrong here guys), and so any side > projects are kept under a particular hat, the mailing list that relates > to your interest in FreeBSD will be monitored by those working under > these hats will be better able to guide you. This list is just a general > discussion and help list for newbies, but when you get in to more depth > like this you'll want to get to the experts on the subject who monitor a > particular list more closely. > > Have fun and good luck. > thanks, i subscribed to multimedia and move queries there in future and not bother folks here. i have been trying to reply to this but have been busy, and just like to recap briefly. in a nutshell, i am very new to bsd, not even a teenager in dog years, and have tried ever flavour these past months - (fbsd/pcbsd - i386/amd64 -- 6/7) and finally settled on 7.1 amd64. i still have some settings to go through/figure out, and have the occasional system freeze, but i don't have the sluggish/bad installs i had trouble with earlier. before you sent this post i had given up and moved to ubuntu studio, decided to give it another go, and got the best performance ever by installing pcbsd 1.5.1 amd64 (based on 6.3) and enabling ULE. so i got an idea of what fbsd was capable of on my machine with the right setup. (graphics driver aside, it even felt *smoother* than studio64). anyway. will be working on this from now on and my project over the next year, so we'll see what happens on multimedia mailing list. i was just putting together a list of packages and might port there sometime soon and close this from this list. thanks for this post ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: freebsd7 & kde4 & performance
> > > > One thing I am curious of is if you're running i386 FreeBSD, or another > architecture (amd64, ia64, etc?) > > I'm running 7.0 stable with ULE scheduler on i386 architecture (since > it's Pentium M). I've tried to use kde4 out of the box (after > compilation). Whole kde is running poorly. I have to wait seconds for > any action to complete (right mouse button, moving windows, moving > widgets, etc), so, as you can imagine, I'm not that patient to tweak any > settings while using kde4. Now I see that many of you are using nvidia > binary drivers, maybe this is the answer why my kde4 is running so slow. > if you have the free space you could try pcbsd7 to see what some extra work can do for it. someone recommended it earlier, rather than the straight upstream stock port (whatever that means) the nvidia driver did make much difference for me ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: kernel configuration
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jan 14, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Ewald Jenisch wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 04:37:53PM +0100, icemaca wrote: >> >>> >>> this i386 version has >>> >>> cpu I486_CPU >>> cpu I586_CPU >>> cpu I686_CPU >>> >>> >> Basically you can comment all but I686_CPU since the others are for >> earlier x86 architectures. >> > > While it is true that you can comment out all but i686 and get a working > kernel, you will experience reduced performance. There are a number of > low-level assembly routines (cf sys/i386/i386/support.s such as i586_bcopy) > that are conditionalized off of I586_CPU only, even though they provide an > advantage on i686 platforms also. > > -- > -Chuck > so in any case it doesn't hurt to leave all 3. right? I have one last question though, is makeoptions DEBUG=g necessary if i am not debugging or is it always necessary to build the kernel properly? can i safely comment it out? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Slow startup of Gnome - error from "gnome-keyring-daemon"
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Ewald Jenisch wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 06:56:13AM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > > > The obvious question is: > > Have you got hald running? > > > > Make sure your /etc/rc.conf has: > > gnome_enable="YES" > > Hi, > > Didn't know that I need 'gnome_enable="YES"' in my /etc/rc.conf. > > At least the handbook doesn't mention it, so coming from earlier > releases of FreeBSD I didn't know this. > it's at freebsd gnome, not handbook . here http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html there are some other usefull stuff there regards ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
shell commands - exclusion
hi, i don't know if this is a freak question, but i was looking around to
see if this is possible, and what the convention would be.
if i have say one (or even two) single file/directories among many others,
and i want to perform any said function like cp, mv, rm, etc.. , to all
other files except that one or two, is there a way to do that in a single
command?
e.g
rm -r * {-except foo1 foo15}
and if there is, could the same be applied to other similar batch (?)
operations, like pkg_delete -f "*" { except firefox3 wine thunderbird }
etc..
i'm a bit new to the shell (took me a while to figure out *ls* and *ls |
more*), but i can't find anything from google cuz i don't know what this
would be called in the first place.
otherwise is it better to protect them with chflags or other trickery?
thanks in advance
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Re: shell commands - exclusion
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Lars Eighner wrote: > > In general this is not possible. A few commands have exclusion options, > but > not many. Some shells have ways of managing glob exclusion (it's the shell > that expands wildcard patterns). Setting GLOBIGNORE works in BASH, whether > something similar works in others, you will have to investigate yourself. > But that isn't one line as you have to set GLOBIGNORE. BASH also has an > extended pattern matching option which includes negation, so you might want > to look into that. > pkg_delete can take regular expression arguments (see -x). Perhaps you > can devise one that will do the trick. Beware, however: it can take > multiple regular expressions and deletes package which match ANY (not all) > of them. > Shell globbing is the operation by which the shell expands wildcards and > finds matches. What you want to do exclude things from shell globbing. > watch out anything involving recursion --- things can happen that you don't > expect unless you really know what you are doing. > thank you, i can keep to regular painstaking methods for now, but would like to get the hang of it in future;. knowing what i'm looking for now is a big step for me. thanks again ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: shell commands - exclusion
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Dan Nelson wrote:
> zsh has the ^ and ~ glob metacharacters that are enabled with you enable
> EXTENDED_GLOB:
>
> ^x (Requires EXTENDED_GLOB to be set.) Matches anything except
> the pattern x. This has a higher precedence than `/', so
> `^foo/bar' will search directories in `.' except `./foo' for a
> file named `bar'.
>
> x~y(Requires EXTENDED_GLOB to be set.) Match anything that
> matches the pattern x but does not match y. This has lower
> precedence than any operator except `|', so `*/*~foo/bar' will
> search for all files in all directories in `.' and then
> exclude `foo/bar' if there was such a match. Multiple
> patterns can be excluded by `foo~bar~baz'. In the exclusion
> pattern (y), `/' and `.' are not treated specially the way
> they usually are in globbing.
>
> > and if there is, could the same be applied to other similar batch (?)
> > operations, like pkg_delete -f "*" { except firefox3 wine thunderbird }
> > etc..
>
> That wildcard is expanded internally by pkg_delete using the C fnmatch()
> function, which just does simple *?[] shell pattern matching.
>
> > i'm a bit new to the shell (took me a while to figure out *ls* and *ls |
> > more*), but i can't find anything from google cuz i don't know what this
> > would be called in the first place.
> >
> > otherwise is it better to protect them with chflags or other trickery?
>
> One workaround is to temporarily move the files you don't want to process
> into another directory, then move them back when you're done.
>
> --
>
thank you,
i am interested in knowing how to do this stuff in general for simple
operations, since like this workaround would work fine with file
operations, but not for pkg_delete and other commands i can't think of right
now. I was just wondering if there was a commonly used/known method or
*switch* i could look into.
however, form this post i get the impression that it is better( and
worthwhile) to learn to do some proper scripting. say, prepare a list in a
file, then pass each one to the command instead of "*".
cheers
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Re: video editor
Brent Clark wrote: prad wrote: any recommendations for software that can join or split wmv, mpg, avi etc etc? i came across mencoder for joining on this page http://mindspill.net/computing/linux-notes/how-to-join-video-files-in-linux.html but i don't really know much about this sort of thing so i'm looking for suggestions. Hiya This is a more Ubuntu / Debian based site, but im sure most of those ports are available. http://www.goodbyemicrosoft.net/news.php?item.417.2 HTH. Kind Regards Brent Clark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" if you are looking for a small app that simply splits and joins kind of like an archiver, there is versions of hjsplit if u ever used that in windows. i've used a good and simple command line version b4 but i can't remember exactly where it is in ports it maybe hjsplit or lhjsplit. (google to their site). if you have wine, i actually use the windows version. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
moused + sysmouse
hi, i am having some issues with moused and have spent alot of time these past few days playing with it. finally i just let it be since it not that critical; but i can't get it out the back of my mind and have a couple of questions for anyone who has a moment because it works ok in x11 and i am mainly just interested in seeing how moused works in console. (so mention of x11 is just for info); plus i am not sure if there are some known issues. i have a (usb) copperhead razer on 7.1-release i386 and in rc.conf it was always set to /dev/mse0, which doesn't exist in /dev. so i don't think it ever really loaded. the mouse cursor usually still comes up in console and responds to movement - but that's about it. then it works ok in x11 (sett as /dev/sysmouse by xorg -configure). pse0 doesn't exist in /dev either, but there is sysmouse, and also ukbd0, which is actually what the system says it is atached to when it is plugged in. when ever i tried /dev/sysmouse in rc.conf, the cursor would be extremely *jiggery*, fly to the screen edges and only move along the borders when i move it - eventually getting stuck in some corner after a few seconds of that. at long last i added usbd_enable="YES" to rc.conf and played around with a lot of different settings in moused flags. finally i got it to stand still and move properly enough, but has wierd issues with cut and paste and when enbling the -V option. in cut and paste it always -always, and always, *loses* some characters, like cut the word -question- pastes something like -questin- and so on. with -V enabled, once i use the scroll wheel (not press), it contuinually pastes large chunks of whatever was on screen ( like motd) for pages on end. if i switch to another virtual tty at that point i get login : and a whole line of flickering a few times, then spits " incorrect login" into a vicous cycle untill all i can do is force a reboot with ctl+alt+del. removing -V and leaving settings which seemed to work prevously, seem to eventually not hold for some reason. eventually i installed 8-current from 200812 snapshot on another disk, csup'd, built world+kernel without debugging stuff and it was easier to control the mouse with the same flags ( -F -r -T -A and -a ). same issues with cut and paste. in 8-current, whenever i change to a different tty (alt+f2..3..), i get a ukbd_set_leds_callback:556: error=USB_ERR_STALLED on the virst tty. not sure if this is related to the mouse, keyboard, or just a tty thing. as mentioned, i'd like to know what is going on and if i can resolve tis, but it is not critical. i'm just learning to use freebsd and plan to take up programming ( but sorry if this is a nuisence to ask about) would i be better off with usb2, and is that only in current or also in stable? thanks in advance if anyone has a moment. p.s. at the moment i just set moused_enable to NO and left the flags there ( which x11 still seems to be picking up on and using correctly) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: questions
Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 08:43:30AM +0300, leva Thecouch wrote: Hello! It is possible, whether in FreeBSD 7.0 to use programs for creation of music and processing of a sound, such as FLStudio 8.0, Sony Sound Forge 8.0? Cubase Studio 4.1, Wave Lab 5 etc.? All of them work in system Windows XP, whether somehow it is possible to make active them in FreeBSD? You could try using them with the windows emulator wine (available in ports: /usr/ports/emulators/wine) If it can be impossible there are any analogues of the similar Software? Very much I hope on выш the answer... There is /usr/ports/audio/ardour, which labels itself as a 'digital audio workstation'. See their website: http://ardour.org/ Roland yes, install wine in any case. you can use most windows wav editors with it plus you can build ardour with VST support (which needs wine) i have sound forge in wine but haven't really used it. audacity is the only real equivelent of wavelab or sound forge in the linux/ *nix world, and practical but not so evolved as any windows version ( it is also the only real option in apple's osx). like cubase there is rosegarden but mainly midi based and i'm not sure how well freebsd's midi is , if it even exists at the moment. beast (ports/audio/.beast) is similar to reaktor, but the best all round programs i found are the old style mod trackers, where it all started and much more fiun to use in my opinion. my favourite is renoise, it that is commercial and windows version in wine so far. some free ones in ports are milkytracker and soundtracker. other audio programs in ports are mixxx and terminatorx, jamin, jack-rack. still ardour is the most professional DAW around ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: questions
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Hello! It is possible, whether in FreeBSD 7.0 to use programs for creation of music and processing of a sound, such as FLStudio 8.0, Sony Sound Forge 8.0? Cubase Studio 4.1, Wave Lab 5 etc.? All of them work in system Windows XP, whether somehow it is possible to make active them in FreeBSD? you may try running it in wine, but anyway - if you wish to use windows based software, using windows is a best choice. lol, so true. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
