Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] No Sound Output
On Tue, 26 Aug 2014, Deboh Adeaga-Brown wrote: Hi there, I have moved over to Ubuntu studio only 2 days ago and I unfortunately cant get my speakers to output sound, same for the earphones. I did not have this problem while in Dream Studio which I left due to lack of enough support from the user community and I could also not get jack working nicely with midi, so I thought since I can easily get help from this community lets move over to studio but now I cant even get past sound issues. Well, let's start with the basics: Which version of UbuntuStudio did you install? What is the make and model of your soundcard? What software application(s) are you using to produce the sounds? -- Rick Green We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights. http://www.MoveToAmend.org -- ubuntu-studio-users mailing list ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users -- ubuntu-studio-users mailing list ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] No icons on desktop
On Sat, 21 Jun 2014, Hieronymus wrote: Hello, When I started my pc this morning icons on my desktop did not load. The desktop image was there, cursor, but no icons or sidebar. I tried sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop, sudo (etc.) ubuntustudioi-desktop. they didn't help. How do I get my icons etc. back?. Gr. Ron This happened to me a week or two ago on my US 10.04 system, just after update-manager pulled in kernel 2.6.32-61-preempt and called for a reboot. After several failed tries, I eventually tried rebooting to the old kernel 2.6.32-60-preempt, and the desktop came up completely. Last night, update manager gave me 2.6.32-62-preempt, and a reboot into that brought up the desktop normally. -- Rick Green We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights. http://www.MoveToAmend.org -- ubuntu-studio-users mailing list ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
[ubuntu-studio-users] Chromium rendering bug?
Just a week or so ago, Chromium started failing to render 'tabs' on a web page. I believe this was coincident with the installation of a series of updates by update manager. Has anyone else noticed this? Specifics: UbuntuStudio 13.10, kept up to date by update manager. Web page is the LuCI interface on an OpenWRT 12.09 equipped router Instead of tabs, I'm just getting a list of words, arranged vertically, not horizontally, and in a color that is difficult to distinguish from the background. Firefox on the same machine renders the page properly, as well as both Firefox and Chromium on an older UbuntuStudio 10.10 installation. Anybody know if this apparent regression is already known to the developers/packagers? -- Rick Green We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights. http://www.MoveToAmend.org -- ubuntu-studio-users mailing list ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] Ubuntu Studio 13.10 released
On Fri, 18 Oct 2013, Jimmy Sjölund wrote: Hi, 32 or 64 bit version? I ran tests on the i386 release yesterday and it passed without any issues. /Jimmy On 18 okt 2013, at 05:48, Joseph Ronne jfro...@gmail.com wrote: The 'upgrade' from 13.04 to 13.10 does not appear to work beyond authentication. I upgraded a 13.04 AMD_64 installation yesterday using the update manager without issues. I'm playing with applications now. It doesn't seem to recognize my zoom H6 recorder when in multitrack interface mode, but its a newly-released device, and I can't say for sure that any earlier version did either... -- Rick Green ...I live in the hope that one day the fine line of distinction between genius and insanity will be decided in my favor. -- ubuntu-studio-users mailing list ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: 12.04 and RAID
On Thu, 31 May 2012, Mike Holstein wrote: Its arguable if going to a live cd is a step forward or back, but its the step that has been taken.. ideally, we will have both live and alternate.. Would it be possible to provide an alternate boot option on the 'live' DVD image? There's already a 'live desktop', 'install', 'check image', and 'memtest' option in the grub menu. There's plenty of room on the DVD. What would it take? One more package (the text installer and related tools), another initrd, and we could have 'easy graphical install' as well as 'expert install' for those who want more choices. I've also wondered if there's enough room on the DVD to include even more packages, so that even the 'ubuntu flavor' would be an install-time option. Imagine one DVD to install your choice of [Xu|Ku|Edu|U]buntu (Studio). I remember spending the first hour when installing old redhat and Suse distros, just reading the list of options and selecting the packages to install. We've come a long way towards making it 'simpler', maybe a bit too far. The DVD is less than half full, I thing there's room for a few more choices in the install. I do really appreciate that the current installer seems to do a check of the online repositories early in the process, and grabs more-current versions of packages in the background during the initial install. I had very few updates to apply right after the install. I wonder if it optimizes those background downloads by using rsync? -- Rick Green Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -Benjamin Franklin As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. -President Barack Obama 20 Jan 2009-- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Bad DVD images
During the final month of US12.04 development, I was regularly downloading and testing the live images. FInally, on 21 April, I installed the daily build, and from then on, simply did an apt-get update;apt-get upgrade each day. Monday night, I finally got around to doing a clean install of the final released product, and to my dismay, discovered a serious regression - The release version will not boot completely to the desktop! I'm using the AMD_64 DVD image. I've tried two different physical discs burned from the image on three different systems. Both discs pass the self-integrity test. It appears to boot, but fails when it comes to start X and bring up the desktop. I see the UbuntuStudio logo with the rotating 'halo' around it for a while, then the halo disappears and I'm left with just the logo. On the April 21st build, this state only lasts a few seconds, then the screen goes black for a few seconds, then the desktop appears. On the April 26th release version, the 'plain' logo was there 15 minutes later, and disc activity appeared to have stopped. The three systems are: 1) AMD_64 2.0Ghz laptop with Radeon Mobility 9600 graphics 2) AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 635 Processor with RS880 [Radeon HD 4200] graphics 3) Intel Core 2 Duo laptop with Intel integrated graphics Curiously, on system 2, where I have a dual-monitor setup, during the time the logo was displayed with the rotating halo, they are mis-aligned, with the halo appearing to the left of the logo, rather than around it. The left(primary) monitor is 4:3, while the secondary (right) is 16:9 Also, on system 2 during one trial, it progressed to the 'black screen' phase and hung there. I was able to switch with ctrl-alt-f2 to a text console, and ps aux told me that X was indeed running. But I never saw any indication of the desktop. I then started backtracking. I downloaded the 20120425 daily build, and that booted to the default Ubuntu Unity desktop. I downloaded the 20120423 daily build, and that also boots to Unity. Only when I go back to the 20120421 daily build do I get the ubuntustudio install with desktop, Looks like I'll have to adopt that as my standard install disc, and then upgrade from the repositories. I would think the developers would have noticed this by now and fixed the release version, but http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/12.04/release/ still shows a 25 April timestamp... Hmmm... Something strange going on here. The release directory shows an .iso image with a 25Apr12 17:46 timestamp. That's exactly the same as the DVD/20120425/ image. My release images were downloaded with Bittorrent, and the .torrent file in the release directory shows a 26Apr12 09:33 timestamp. I wonder if the tracker is referenced to a different image than the http download??? I'm starting an http download from the release directory, but the tubes are sluggish this time of day, and its telling me it'll take 16-19 hours to complete... -- Rick Green Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -Benjamin Franklin As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. -President Barack Obama 20 Jan 2009 -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: (rant) Is there any hope
I see some light up ahead in the tunnel! About once a week since Beta 1 came out at the beginning of the month, I've been downloading and trying out the daily build of 12.04. Today, I saw the best 'out of the box' experience with a live DVD ever! I booted the DVD on my AMD64 laptop, launched qjackctl, opened the 'setup' window, selected the 'firewire' driver, clicked OK, accepting all other defults. Clicked 'start', and jack found my focusrite (pro26io) interface and started up. I launched Ardour, created a new session, added two mono tracks, plugged in an available source of audio, and started recording. The recording ran for 25 minutes with NO xruns until the ramdisk filled up. It stopped recording, threw up a message log window, but DID NOT crash jack. I 'rewound' the playhead, hit play. Switched to a second desktop, launched ffado-mixer. It threw a message about inability to connect to the dbus server, but succeeded when I hit 'retry'. I tweaked some of the output mixer settings, and I hear clean audio coming from my monitors. This is a base level of stability and pre-configuration that I expect from a distro, but have never seen in any distro up to this day. Kudos to the team! -- Rick Green Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -Benjamin Franklin As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. -President Barack Obama 20 Jan 2009 -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
Re: (rant) Is there any hope
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 00:11 -0500, Rick Green wrote: [snip] But 10.04 wasn't stable enough to run jack for more than a few minutes before the xrun count went thru the roof. I always build a kernel-rt myself. At least you should use a full preempted with threadirqs set to the boot parameters. There are just a few developers, such as the 64 Studio people, that build kernel-rt I like. For example Arch Linux kernels fail for my Wi-Fi, they exclude HPET to the rt. Ubuntu Studio 11.10 by default comes with the kernel-generic. Yeah, that was the first, worst regression down this slippery slope. What happened? I would think that packaging an -rt kernel would be job 1 for a 'studio' distro. Especially since the RT patches were accepted into mainline. I was comfortable compiling and installing kernels way back in the days of LILO and Linux 1.x, but I could probably count on one hand the number of times I've attempted it since 2.0, and I'm nowhere up to speed on the complexities of grub2 and initrd's, so I'm now dependent on distributor's packages. My portable recording rig runs on an early AMD_64 laptop. The TI firewire and Broadcom Wifi share an IRQ, so I've long ago learned to turn off the Wifi before I start jack. If you get xruns, first get a kernel-rt, second check if rtirq set your card to the highest priority. I for example need to add hdspm: RTIRQ_NAME_LIST=rtc hdspm snd usb i8042 The second might not have significant impact, but the first, a kernel-rt will improve a lot. [snip] jack inexplicably dies [snip] Did you switch between Jack1 and Jack2? Right now, I've got the default package, ISTR jackdmp v1.9.2 or thereabouts. (the machine's not booted at the moment). This confuses me, I thought jackdmp = jack2, and jackd would show v 1.x.x. My machine is just single-core, so I don't need jackdmp. Is there a package for Jack1, and might it be appropriate to switch to it? -- Rick Green Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -Benjamin Franklin As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. -President Barack Obama 20 Jan 2009 -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
(rant) Is there any hope
for Ubuntu Studio as a productive audio recording and mixing environment? Four years ago, I bought a Focusrite Saffire Pro 26 firewire interface, largely because it was listed as one of the best-supported by the ffado project. I loaded up a copy of UbuntuStudio 8.04LTS. The clean install wouldn't talk to the interface, but after I obtained a bleeding-edge copy of the ffado source from one of the developers, and recompiled locally, I was up and running. I've used that installation for every recording I've done since. For the most part it's stable, and I've learned to work-around its quirks When 10.04 came out, I thought I'd upgrade, thinking I'd like to see the latest enhancements to Ardour, and it might be more forgiving of the order I start up programs. But 10.04 wasn't stable enough to run jack for more than a few minutes before the xrun count went thru the roof. Since then, I've tried every new release, and the regressions are stacking up faster than ever. I recently did a clean install of 11.10 (amd64), and tonight gave it a first attempt with the firewire interface... With 8.04, I start ffado-mixer, and it automatically starts the ffado-dbus-server. With this one, it merely complains that the dbus server isn't running, so I'm forced to open a terminal and start it, then when I restart ffado-mixer, it tells me 'no supported devices found'. This isn't exactly true, for when I go to a terminal and run ffado-test ListDevices, it clearly finds my focusrite pro26IO on node 1. I launch qjackctl, open the setup window, and select the firewire driver, accepting all the defaults for now. When I attempt to start jack, it fails with a 'cannot connect to server as client' message. After many attempts and reboots, I discover that if I start qjackctl and start jack without attempting to start ffado-mixer or ffado-dbus-server first, then jack will actually start! (With 8.04, I HAD to start ffado-mixer first.) I launch Ardour, open a new session, and start to record two tracks of whatever audio happened to be playing on the stereo at the time. About 24 minutes later, just as I'm getting complacent with no xruns recorded(!), jack inexplicably dies, but qjackctl doesn't know it, so it is locked up, too. I ended up having to go back to the terminal and kill -9 everything jack-related I could find, then power down my interface, and power it back on, then restart qjackctl, and finally jack. Only then could I tell Ardour to reconnect and save the session, but for some reason Ardour's transport was messed up. I could move the playhead either directly, or with the | button, but the 'Big Clock' still showed the time at the end of the aborted capture, and the 'play' button or the spacebar had no effect. I closed Ardour, then went to stop jack and close qjackctl, and qjackctl threw messages about a client still connected (Ardour was already shut down at this point), and after I press the 'close anyway' button, then qjackctl itself refuses to quit cleanly, and I get a 'program not responding' message from the window manager, and I'm forced to go back to the terminal and resort to kill -9 again. The developers are over halfway into the 12.04 cycle now, so I don't see any point in submitting bug reports against 11.10 for all this. Have they gotten to the point of publishing any pre-builds of 12.04, and would it be any help to install that and submit bugs against 12.04pre- instead? -- Rick Green Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -Benjamin Franklin As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. -President Barack Obama 20 Jan 2009 -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
