[ubuntu-studio-devel] MuseScore 4

[Paul DeShaw]

Greetings,

Are there any plans to put the latest MuseScore version into the
repository? Or should I just install it directly from musescore.org? I'm
running last year's LTS--it's gotten so slow and glitchy I am reluctant to
upgrade--so maybe that's why Synaptic isn't showing the latest MuseScore.

~PD
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Re: Non-coder contribution: hardware testing

[Paul DeShaw]

Hello,

I saw this tab open in my browser and it had a workaround:

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/49921

It said to switch the jumper on the drive to "cable select".  I can't
find the message that sent me that link; but I think it was someone on
ubuntu-studio-users; or else it was a link from one of the pages from
Kirko's links.  I noticed in the above Launchpad question that Ubuntu
Studio was not mentioned, so maybe it is more general.  Puzzling that
Ubuntu can find the drive when booted from a USB stick.

Back to Ubuntu Studio 10.04 booted from the hard drive: The CD/DVD
drive still does not appear in the Places menu, but it is in
Places>Computer.  If I put an audio CD in, Audio Disk appears in both
the Places menu and the Places>Computer file browser window.  If I
right-click on the Audio Disk in the Places menu, I get this error:
"Could not open location 'cdda://sr0/'
 Failed to exexute child process "sound-juicer" (no such file or directory)"

Right-clicking in the Places>computer file browser window opens a
normal contextual menu.

If you want to change any of this behavior, I am willing to test
patches.  I was led to believe that the "slave" jumper setting was
standard, which is troubling...if that's how most people's drives are
set up, there could be a lot of Ubuntu machines without working HP
840d drives.

I have an ECS motherboard with an AMD 64 processor (2800+ ? not sure)
and ATI Radeon built-in graphics.  If you want more detail, please ask
and I'll try to track it down.

Thanks,

Paul in Seattle

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Re: Non-coder contribution: hardware testing

[Paul DeShaw]

> Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 11:23:04 +0100
> From: Ricardo Lameiro 
> Subject: Re: Non-coder contribution: hardware testing
> To: "Ubuntu Studio Development & Technical Discussion"
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> Ok lets try to go somewhere,  I dont understand what is happening but i
> searched on the internet and found this
>
> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/openbsd-misc/2009/1/21/4780964/thread
>
>  >maybe
> a possible solution (firmware update)
> http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/519980
>
> Is the drive on an
> external enclosure or internal? did you tried to do a manual mount of the
> drive?
>

Hi,

Could not find the right firmware on either of those sites; I could not
figure out how to search the first one.  I have also tried HP's site.  If it
was a firmware issue, would  generic Ubuntu be able to run the drive?  I
booted a USB stick of 10.04 over the weekend and was able to detect the
drive and play a CD--though there was no audio.

It is mounted internally, plugged into the IDE cable.  The jumper is set to
"slave".  There is nothing else on its channel.  The BIOS detects it.

I do not know how to mount it as it doesn't have a mount point that I can
find.  I'm not too skilled with the command line, but when I use the GUI,
Places does not have an item for CD or DVD.  Places>Computer opens a file
browser window that lists only floppy0 and File System.  Of course there is
no floppy, "special device /dev/fd0 does not exist".  Under Karmic, there
used to be a listing, but it wouldn't open; it showed the error "special
device /dev/sc0 doesn't exist".  Now in Lucid there is nothing to click on.
ls /dev confirms no /dev/sc0.  ls /media outputs

 floppy floppy0

Are there any other terminal commands you would like to see the output of?

Thanks,

PD
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Non-coder contribution: hardware testing

[Paul DeShaw]

Greetings,

After struggling for months to get my HP DVD/CD ROM to work in Ubuntu
Studio, I decided I would ask the developers if they want me to run any
tests so they can make it work in future releases. This way I might get to
contribute something back to the project as well as get my own system
working again.

 This HD DVD Writer 840d worked flawlessly before upgrading from 8.04 to
9.10. It worked fine to run the upgrade from within 8.04, and it worked fine
to do a clean 10.04 install.  There is no problem booting from it, but it
becomes undetectable when I boot from the hard drive. I have also tested the
optical drive while running generic Ubuntu 9.10 from a flash drive, and it
seemed to work, though I didn't try burning any media. Since it ran with
generic Ubuntu, I thought it might be an Ubuntu Studio-specific problem, and
perhaps the developers should know about it.  I did file a bug report in
Launchpad against 9.10, but it didn't go anywhere; I also noticed a similar
bug report and forum post for earlier versions, also unresolved.  This may
be a persistent problem in post-Hardy Ubuntu Studio.  Please let me know if
there are any tests you want me to run.  If not, I'll shop around for a new
drive and/or distro, but I would _really_ like to see Ubuntu Studio work out
of the box with common IDE optical drives, and hope I can help you make that
happen.  If this is happening to a lot of users with similar hardware, I
fear it could negatively impact the adoption of Ubuntu Studio.

Please let me know what other hardware information you need, and how to find
it.  I'll probably have to run some reports, since I no longer have paper
documentation.

If there is a more appropriate venue for this issue, please say so.  I tried
Launchpad, Ubuntu-studio-users-list, linux-audio-users-list, and Ubuntu
forums so far, without much success.

Sincerely,

Paul DeShaw
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