Re: [64studio-devel] Sound Card Recommendations

2013-07-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 12:53 -0700, Brian Redfern wrote: > The fact that the iPad only supports standard usb2 audio/midi has had > a positive side effect in that you are seeing a general move away from > custom drivers. So now the hammerfall USB device will work with Linux > because rme had to modif

Re: [64studio-devel] Sound Card Recommendations

2013-07-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 12:19 -0700, Brian Redfern wrote: > hammerfall is the best high budget option Middle budget. You can start with a simple stereo RME card and get 8 channels by an elCheapo ADAT device, e.g. a Behringer ADA8000 (19" but regarding to a bad power supply, it gets too hot, so it sh

Re: [64studio-devel] Sound Card Recommendations

2013-07-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I used TerraTec EWX 24/96 cards and they worked very good. Now I'm using a RME HDSPe AIO, a PITA on my machine. However, RME cards are the best cards that can be used with Linux and it's said that the card I'm using should work too. As far as I know the HDSP 9632 is used by many Linux users without

Re: [64studio-devel] [Fwd: [off-list][LAD] jack_snapshot http://tapas.a

2012-03-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 06:06 -0800, Kristen Eisenberg wrote: > On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 22:56 +0100, David Adler wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 22:15 +0100, David Adler wrote: > > >> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011

Re: [64studio-devel] Fwd: Anyone still on these lists?

2012-02-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 06:13 +0200, Quentin Harley wrote: > Nice to see that I am not the only nostalgic one. Pro-audio on Linux becomes better and better, but the environments become more and more painful. Flashy and unusable DEs, an "experimental" graphics driver that doesn't work for half of t

Re: [64studio-devel] Fwd: Anyone still on these lists?

2012-02-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 01:51 +0100, Robin Gareus wrote: > In short: Go for Debian. Off-list I get some nice contacts from the Debian community, from a job offer for Google when I was jobless, to people who still know music like the sound from Radio Birdman. But Debian as distro for pro-audio was a

Re: [64studio-devel] Fwd: Anyone still on these lists?

2012-02-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-02-18 at 11:58 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 18:28 -0500, Mike Holstein wrote: > > http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html > > Perhaps the best choice for everybody who prefer 32-bit architecture. I > prefer 64-bit. FWIW I also prefer Xfce to LX

Re: [64studio-devel] Fwd: Anyone still on these lists?

2012-02-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 18:28 -0500, Mike Holstein wrote: > http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html Perhaps the best choice for everybody who prefer 32-bit architecture. I prefer 64-bit. FWIW I also prefer Xfce to LXDE. There are tons of other audio distros that IMO are no worth to test. Ubuntu Stud

Re: [64studio-devel] Fwd: Anyone still on these lists?

2012-02-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 22:47 +0200, Quentin Harley wrote: > > Hello to all historical 64 studio users > > > After a very long time of waiting, eventually giving up and > distro-hopping I decided to give OpenDAW (64studio 4) another go. I > was tired of almost getting what I wanted in terms of au

[64studio-devel] [Fwd: [off-list][LAD] jack_snapshot http://tapas.affenbande.org/]

2011-01-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Forwarded Message From: Ralf Mardorf To: David Adler Cc: ubuntu-studio-users Subject: [off-list][LAD] jack_snapshot http://tapas.affenbande.org/ Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 23:10:53 +0100 On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 22:56 +0100, David Adler wrote: > On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 10:28 PM, R

Re: [64studio-devel] envy24control/mudita24

2010-09-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 15:27 +0100, Daniel James wrote: > Hi Mike, > > > whats the timeline on adding mudita to the > > repositories? > > Whenever I get around to it :-) We don't have a customer request for > Mudita at the moment, but I have a couple of envy24 cards myself, so I'm > keen to try it

Re: [64studio-devel] envy24control/mudita24

2010-09-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 12:07 +0100, Daniel James wrote: > Hi Ralf, > > > http:// mudita24.googlecode.com > > > > Please notice that there is a successor for envy24control. Nils and Tim > > did a good job. > > Yes, it's encouraging to see that the tools continue to improve, even > for hardware tha

[64studio-devel] envy24control/mudita24

2010-09-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
http:// mudita24.googlecode.com Please notice that there is a successor for envy24control. Nils and Tim did a good job. I didn't compile the current version myself, but I added the first overworks. Please compile and test their current version. I'll do it too. Cheers, Ralf

[64studio-devel] ALSA MIDI thru for live playing is ok (at least at the moment)

2010-07-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Without running JACK and with running JACK -p2048 44.1Khz and 96KHz, without HR timer enabled and with HR timer enabled ALSA MIDI used to make a thru connection was always ok when playing live, not only for the PCI MIDI, but even for USB MIDI. When playing the recordings from my last test by Qtrac

Re: [64studio-devel] [LAD] Transport issue for Qtractor - has impact to the jitter issue

2010-07-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Rui :) no, a misunderstanding, at -Rch -dalsa -dhw:0 -r96000 -p512 -n2 there's an issue internal Qtractor, no JACK transport. There's a MIDI track with FluidSynth DSSI and there's an audio track with a recording of FluidSynth DSSI, done by Qtractor audio out directly connected to audio in. Th

[64studio-devel] Transport issue for Qtractor - has impact to the jitter issue

2010-07-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Transport issue for Qtractor - has impact to the jitter issue So the advice to use amidiplay is something I'll follow soon. Hi all :), hi Robin :), hi Devin :) Robin, for 64 Studio 3.3 alpha the group has got read and write access to /dev/hpet too. Btw '[...] | sudo tee [...]' for 3.3 alpha isn't

Re: [64studio-devel] [64studio-users] Correlation of alsa -p value and hw MIDI jitter

2010-07-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
No firewire here. I once had a MOTU, but I guess that there isn't a driver for Linux and the guy who lend me the MOTU + Mac was Dirk Brauner who isn't a friend anymore. I guess the MOTO was audio only. The people who are still my friends don't have much different equipment, but I've got. Always Env

Re: [64studio-devel] [64studio-users] Correlation of alsa -p value and hw MIDI jitter

2010-07-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 14:12 -0700, Devin Anderson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 12:30 -0700, Devin Anderson wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Ralf Mardorf > >> wrote: > >> > >

Re: [64studio-devel] [LAD] ALSA MIDI latency test results are far away from reality

2010-07-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 21:45 +0200, Robin Gareus wrote: > On 07/14/2010 03:23 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > [..] > > $ su -c "chgrp audio /dev/hpet" > Its also writable for the group, right? Sorry another PS, I missed to reply to this question. At least for Suse it

Re: [64studio-devel] [LAD] ALSA MIDI latency test results are far away from reality

2010-07-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 22:16 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 21:45 +0200, Robin Gareus wrote: > > On 07/14/2010 03:23 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > [..] > > > $ su -c "chgrp audio /dev/hpet" > > Its also writable for the group, rig

Re: [64studio-devel] [LAD] ALSA MIDI latency test results are far away from reality

2010-07-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 21:45 +0200, Robin Gareus wrote: > On 07/14/2010 03:23 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > [..] > > $ su -c "chgrp audio /dev/hpet" > Its also writable for the group, right? > > > $ su -c "sysctl -w dev.hpet.max-user-freq=64" > >

Re: [64studio-devel] [LAD] ALSA MIDI latency test results are far away from reality

2010-07-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 21:42 +0200, Robin Gareus wrote: > On 07/14/2010 07:58 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 17:30 +0200, Robin Gareus wrote: > >> On 07/14/2010 04:22 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >>> Hi Robin :) > >>> > >>>

Re: [64studio-devel] [64studio-users] Correlation of alsa -p value and hw MIDI jitter

2010-07-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 12:30 -0700, Devin Anderson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > > Hi :) > > > > delayed by a thunder-storm I could do another test. > > --snip-- > > So, what you're saying is that your MIDI devic

Re: [64studio-devel] [Fwd: Re: [LAD] [64studio-users] MIDI jitter]

2010-07-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 11:14 +0200, R.Wolff wrote: > > Am 07/06/2010 11:57 AM, wrote Daniel James: > > > Hi Gustin, > > ... > > I'd be interested to know if the new RME Babyface can do any better than > > the Midisport, if the problem is fundamental to USB itself. > > ... > > I notice > > http://w

Re: [64studio-devel] [LAD] ALSA MIDI latency test results are far away from reality

2010-07-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 17:30 +0200, Robin Gareus wrote: > On 07/14/2010 04:22 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Hi Robin :) > > > > On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 15:44 +0200, Robin Gareus wrote: > >> On 07/14/2010 03:23 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >>> [..] > >>&g

[64studio-devel] Correlation of alsa -p value and hw MIDI jitter

2010-07-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) delayed by a thunder-storm I could do another test. 64 Studio 3.3 alpha (= Ubuntu Karmic) amd64 LXDE, poff dsl-provider, cpufreq-selector -g performance, chgrp audio /dev/hpet, sysctl -w dev.hpet.max-user-freq=64, modprobe snd-hrtimer Qtractor + HR timer playing FluidSynth DSSI drums and

Re: [64studio-devel] [LAD] ALSA MIDI latency test results are far away from reality

2010-07-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 17:24 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 17:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 10:53 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Clemens Ladisch > > > wrote: > > > > Is this

Re: [64studio-devel] [LAD] ALSA MIDI latency test results are far away from reality

2010-07-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 17:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 10:53 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > > Is this connection through JACK or through ALSA, i.e., does it show up > > > in the output of

Re: [64studio-devel] [LAD] ALSA MIDI latency test results are far away from reality

2010-07-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 10:53 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > Is this connection through JACK or through ALSA, i.e., does it show up > > in the output of "aconnect -l"? From what I understand, JACK's sample- > > synchronous timing always adds l

Re: [64studio-devel] [LAD] ALSA MIDI latency test results are far away from reality

2010-07-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 15:52 +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > 1. > > > > I disconnected all audio connections for JACK and connected hw MIDI in > > to hw MIDI out. > > Is this connection through JACK or through ALSA, i.e., does it show u

Re: [64studio-devel] [LAD] ALSA MIDI latency test results are far away from reality

2010-07-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Robin :) On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 15:44 +0200, Robin Gareus wrote: > On 07/14/2010 03:23 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > [..] > > AND IT'S AUDIBLE THAT THERE IS MUCH MORE JITTER BUT 1.1 ms. > > > > Any hints how to solve this are welcome. > > Did you try to s

[64studio-devel] ALSA MIDI latency test results are far away from reality

2010-07-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) my PCI MIDI devices passed the alsa-midi-latency-test always with < 1.01 ms, on several Linux, with several kernels and graphic drivers. It's audible that this can't be true. I was sceptic, when my USB MIDI passed with around 2 ms, because recordings did show that there is much more latency

[64studio-devel] 3.0b and 3.3a amd64 MIDI latency test for several kernels

2010-07-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) here's the ALSA MIDI latency test for 64 Studio 3.0 amd64 and 64 Studio 3.3 amd64. An hw MIDI instrument's audio outputs recorded to audio tracks test will follow. What I call 'PCI card 1' might be PCI card 2 for the computer. S/PDIF out from the card that I call #1, is connected to S/PDIF

Re: [64studio-devel] /me tapping mic... is this thing on??

2010-07-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 21:40 -0400, Mike Holstein wrote: > I have no trouble with the RT kernel in ubuntu... I use the one from > the default repos... however, I would like to discuss 64studio... I also don't have issues, regarding to a boot-able kernel-rt, when using Ubuntu Lucid or a RPM based di

Re: [64studio-devel] /me tapping mic... is this thing on??

2010-07-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I couldn't build a kernel-rt that is boot-able. Forwarded Message ---- From: Ralf Mardorf To: Niels Mayer Cc: Linux Audio Developers Subject: Re: [LAD] PCI MIDI jitter - comparison Ubuntu (bad) and Suse (might be ok) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:45:38 +0200 On Sun, 2010-07-11

Re: [64studio-devel] /me tapping mic... is this thing on??

2010-07-10 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 20:21 -0400, Mike Holstein wrote: > "These days, our focus is not on a general-purpose creative distro, > because Ubuntu Studio and other similar projects like AV Linux provide > that. Rather, we use our distro customisation tools to create niche > products, like musica

Re: [64studio-devel] [LAD] MIDI jitter

2010-07-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 10:25 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > I've got a good feeling, that around 1ms (when the -R switch is set) > > would be good enough to make music, but again, even if the test says > > 2.23 ms

Re: [64studio-devel] [LAD] MIDI jitter

2010-07-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 10:25 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > I've got a good feeling, that around 1ms (when the -R switch is set) > > would be good enough to make music, but again, even if the test says > > 2.23 ms

[64studio-devel] MIDI jitter

2010-07-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 10:57 +0100, Daniel James wrote: [snip] > I notice > http://www.rme-audio.de/en_support_techinfo.php?page=content/support/en_support_techinfo_steadyclock > doesn't mention USB or MIDI at all. > > Cheers! > > Daniel Hi all :) hi Daniel :) I'll read this link tomorrow, I jus

Re: [64studio-devel] [Fwd: Re: [LAD] [64studio-users] MIDI jitter]

2010-07-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 22:53 -0600, gus...@echostar.ca wrote: > ### First the RME results ### > $ alsa-midi-latency-test -i 16:0 -o 16:0 -w 20 -r > > SUCCESS > > best latency was 0.96 ms > worst latency was 4.04 ms, which is great. > ### Next are the midisport results ### > $ alsa-midi-laten

[64studio-devel] [Fwd: Re: [LAD] [64studio-users] MIDI jitter]

2010-07-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I'm not forwarding every mail from LAD, but this one might be important too. Run it with the -w and -r option, perhaps this might be the right way to do it. Forwarded Message From: Adrian Knoth To: linux-audio-...@lists.linuxaudio.org Subject: Re: [LAD] [64studio-users] MIDI jit

[64studio-devel] [Fwd: Re: [LAD] [64studio-users] MIDI jitter]

2010-07-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Forwarded Message From: Adrian Knoth To: Clemens Ladisch Cc: linux-audio-...@lists.linuxaudio.org Subject: Re: [LAD] [64studio-users] MIDI jitter Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 11:53:22 +0200 On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 05:28:05PM +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > >> latency distribution: >

[64studio-devel] [Fwd: Re: [LAD] [64studio-users] MIDI jitter]

2010-07-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Forwarded Message From: Clemens Ladisch To: Adrian Knoth Cc: linux-audio-...@lists.linuxaudio.org Subject: Re: [LAD] [64studio-users] MIDI jitter Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:28:05 +0200 Adrian Knoth wrote: >> latency distribution: > ... > 3.1 - 3.2 ms:1 # > ... > 3.9

Re: [64studio-devel] [LAD] [64studio-users] MIDI jitter

2010-07-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 14:48 +0200, f...@kokkinizita.net wrote: > I've no idea how this test works, but if it uses the same > interface for TX an RX the results should be treated with > a healthy dose of scepticism. Not only because the system is measuring it self, but also because there is no way

Re: [64studio-devel] [LAD] [64studio-users] MIDI jitter

2010-07-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 14:27 +0200, Adrian Knoth wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 06:20:30PM -0700, Niels Mayer wrote: > > > What's interesting to note is that most of the USB MIDI interfaces do > > not have consistent latency (Other than the Roland UM2's consistent > > Let me just show you the re

Re: [64studio-devel] Information wanted regarding to differences between oldish CPUs and modern CPUs regarding to IRQ handling

2010-06-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_p8XM2K9FDNY/RvqqueJJdXI/AG4/jqYVwUTKe5g/s320/storchmesser.jpg There's a German idiom, the "Eierlegendewollmilchsau", on English the "lay-an-egg-wool-and-milk-giving-pig". Usually I don't need all this for making music. ___

Re: [64studio-devel] Information wanted regarding to differences between oldish CPUs and modern CPUs regarding to IRQ handling

2010-06-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 03:38 -0400, a gifted man wrote (I'll send it Bcc to him too): > You did it because it was easy to do. Modern cpu's have a structured IRQ > setup that can and is expandable to at least 255 interrupts. And on the > 6502, you didn't expect it to go fetch the mail in the bac

Re: [64studio-devel] Information wanted regarding to differences between oldish CPUs and modern CPUs regarding to IRQ handling

2010-06-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 21:09 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 16:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > For my understanding I wish to compare some knowledge from the C64 with > > a modern Intel/AMD Linux PC. I don't have much knowledge about the C64 > > anymo

Re: [64studio-devel] Information wanted regarding to differences between oldish CPUs and modern CPUs regarding to IRQ handling

2010-06-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 16:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > For my understanding I wish to compare some knowledge from the C64 with > a modern Intel/AMD Linux PC. I don't have much knowledge about the C64 > anymore, but some notes at hand. > > Is there a difference for Intel/AM

[64studio-devel] The ALSA MIDI latency test

2010-06-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Because the hw MIDI's IOs are connected, is the value for the jitter = the effective value or is there the need to divide by 2, to get a more valid effective value? ___ 64studio-devel mailing list 64studio-devel@lists.64studio.com http://lists.64studio.c

[64studio-devel] Information wanted regarding to differences between oldish CPUs and modern CPUs regarding to IRQ handling

2010-06-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
For my understanding I wish to compare some knowledge from the C64 with a modern Intel/AMD Linux PC. I don't have much knowledge about the C64 anymore, but some notes at hand. Is there a difference for Intel/AMD Linux PCs for IRQs and NMIs? In other words, for the C64's 6502 CPU there were two com

Re: [64studio-devel] Qtractor + Rakarrack + JACK2 = JackAudioDriver::ProcessAsync Process error

2010-06-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Daniel James wrote: > Hi Ralf, > > >> I don't >> know the reason, why most major distros now switch to JACK 2 >> > > It's hard to say if that's true, without a proper survey. Ubuntu Lucid > has JACK1 (0.118) but Debian Squeeze will have JACK2 (1.9.5 or later). > > I assumed that because of

Re: [64studio-devel] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2010-06-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) perhaps " " and "64" won't confirm, if so, I fear that a reminder will send each week this two requests to the mailing list. I had this with the house management and another social network. So " " and "64", if you know him, confirm soon, but if it's a mistake by you Michael, please remov

[64studio-devel] JACK1 for 3.3alpha - libjack.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

2010-06-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
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Re: [64studio-devel] Qtractor + Rakarrack + JACK2 = JackAudioDriver::ProcessAsync Process error

2010-06-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Daniel James wrote: > Hi Gabriel, > > >>> When jackdmp 1.9.1 was renamed to JACK2 I believed that JACK1 >>> development was giving way to the newer C++ implementation, but that >>> does not appear to be the case now. >>> >> I think he was asking for some manner of libjack-dbg >> package

Re: [64studio-devel] Qtractor + Rakarrack + JACK2 = JackAudioDriver::ProcessAsync Process error

2010-06-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Daniel James wrote: > > >> Hi Ralf, >> >> >>> could you please add a JACK debuginfo version to the repository or send >>> it by email? >>> >> There's an open question about whether we will use JACK2 or JACK1 for >> future distros,

Re: [64studio-devel] Qtractor + Rakarrack + JACK2 = JackAudioDriver::ProcessAsync Process error

2010-06-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Daniel James wrote: > Hi Ralf, > > >> could you please add a JACK debuginfo version to the repository or send >> it by email? >> > > There's an open question about whether we will use JACK2 or JACK1 for > future distros, since JACK 0.118.0 shows that JACK1 development is still > very much a

[64studio-devel] Qtractor + Rakarrack + JACK2 = JackAudioDriver::ProcessAsync Process error

2010-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
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[64studio-devel] File browsers and desktop environment for 3.3 α

2010-05-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
So far I didn't know that Nautilus has an option '--no-desktop', running Nautilus with this option seems to stop changing e.g. the panel settings, when running Nautilus on another DE, but GNOME. It's strange that when using PCManFM unmounted devices can be accessed by any user, no root password is

Re: [64studio-devel] File manager for 64 Studio 3.3 onwards

2010-05-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Daniel James wrote: > I can see that GNOME has genuinely useful features, which perhaps I'd begun > to take for granted. > What features are you missing for LXDE? I can't notice any disadvantage for the DE, but I'm using it with some GNOME apps, e.g. gnome-terminal and gedit. Ralf _

Re: [64studio-devel] File manager for 64 Studio 3.3 onwards

2010-05-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: Linux guys might like to have the choice between different windows managers and desktop environments AND this could cause a lot of trouble ... much more than the nautilus-issue I indicated. When I reported trouble regarding to a set up using e17 and GNOME, the people from the e17 mailing l

Re: [64studio-devel] File manager for 64 Studio 3.3 onwards

2010-05-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Quentin Harley wrote: > Quentin Harley wrote: > >> Currently 64 studio 3.3 alpha comes sans file manager. pc-man is not >> the greatest (yet) and I had lots of issues - not behaving the way it >> should. >> >> After looking for a way to browse samba shares on a LAN, I found gigolo, >> and so

Re: [64studio-devel] File manager for 64 Studio 3.3 onwards

2010-05-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Quentin Harley wrote: > Currently 64 studio 3.3 alpha comes sans file manager. pc-man is not > the greatest (yet) and I had lots of issues - not behaving the way it > should. > > After looking for a way to browse samba shares on a LAN, I found gigolo, > and so far I am impressed. > > Could we i

Re: [64studio-devel] Solid performance on 64 Studio 3.3 alpha 2

2010-05-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Angel Candelaria wrote: > Hi all. > > Just to report that 64 Studio 3.3 alpha 2 is working great on my > machine. Here's my hardware configuration, for reference: > > angelsgui...@studiopc:~$ lspci > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM > Controller (rev 10) > 00:

Re: [64studio-devel] 64 studio alpha 3.3 install failed

2010-04-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Guido Piazzi wrote: > Il giorno mar, 27/04/2010 alle 16.44 +0200, Daniel James ha scritto: > >> Hi Guido, >> >> >>> I did a quick install >>> test on my MacBook with the latest i386 alpha and it installed an amd64 >>> system, not an i386 one! >>> >> I think you must have mixed up the

[64studio-devel] [solved] GParted issue with ext4 fs

2010-04-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Again, sorry for the noise, OTOH hopefully it might help somebody. GParted > View > File System Support gives the answer, e2fsprogs v1.41+ is needed, but 1.40.8 is installed. I didn't remove the package, because checkinstall failed, but AFAICT nothing is broken after I did the following. # cd /

[64studio-devel] [NOT solved] GParted issue with ext4 fs

2010-04-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Sorry for that noise :) >> Hi :) >> >> because the 3.3 alpha is rudimentary, for me it's still important to >> keep 3.0-beta3 upgraded. >> >> The Hardy packages for GParted are 0.3.5 versions. The latest version >> for Hardy is detecting ext4, as an ext3 file system, however, this >> version di

[64studio-devel] [seems to be solved] GParted issue with ext4 fs

2010-04-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> Hi :) > > because the 3.3 alpha is rudimentary, for me it's still important to > keep 3.0-beta3 upgraded. > > The Hardy packages for GParted are 0.3.5 versions. The latest version > for Hardy is detecting ext4, as an ext3 file system, however, this > version displays info for size, used and u

[64studio-devel] GParted issue with ext4 fs

2010-04-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) because the 3.3 alpha is rudimentary, for me it's still important to keep 3.0-beta3 upgraded. The Hardy packages for GParted are 0.3.5 versions. The latest version for Hardy is detecting ext4, as an ext3 file system, however, this version displays info for size, used and unused space. I

Re: [64studio-devel] 64 studio alpha 3.3 install failed

2010-04-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Guido Piazzi wrote: > Il giorno lun, 26/04/2010 alle 20.16 +, jickd...@juno.com ha > scritto: > >> For a split second it jumps to 85% and says “cleaning up” and then it >> says that the installation failed. >> >> I’m running a P4 extreme 3.4 GHz with 2gig ram Dell inspiron 9100 >> Laptop. Al

[64studio-devel] Issue with Google Earth & [possibly sloved] NVIDIA issue for 64 Studio 3.3 alpha amd64

2010-04-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) the NVIDIA issue possibly is solved. Now there's a new issue, Google Earth doesn't build completely [1]. Any ideas, but a 32-bit chroot? Notes about xorg.conf I tested two xorg.confs, both cause the wanted 1152x...@90hz always for the nv and for the nvidia driver, but I need to disable th

[64studio-devel] News - NVIDIA issue for 64 Studio 3.3 alpha amd64

2010-04-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) the good news, building the nvidia driver with gcc 4.3 is ok. The bad news, until now I only get a resolution of 640x...@59.7hz. If I try the monitor settings that are ok for Suse 11.2 nvidia and 64 Studio 3.0-beta3 nv startup ends with a black screen for GDM. Black screen: spinymo...@64st

[64studio-devel] NVIDIA issue for 64 Studio 3.3 alpha amd64 - Xorg's nv driver

2010-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) here's the complete history. After the installation was done, btw. by using the DVD with the error on track 1, everything regarding to X was ok, excepted that the maximal resolution available was 800 x 600 and the vertical frequency was less 70 Hz. I guess the vesa driver was used, but I do

[64studio-devel] NVIDIA issue for 64 Studio 3.3 alpha amd64 - Black screen for GDM

2010-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' creation time: Fri Apr 23 00:50:20 2010 installer version: 1.0.7 [snip] The compiler used to compile the kernel (gcc 4.3) does not exactly match the current compiler (gcc 4.4). The Linux 2.6 kernel module loader rejects ker

Re: [64studio-devel] [64studio-users] 3.3-alpha2 - a slightly less bleeding release

2010-04-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Daniel James wrote: > Hi Ralf, > > >> K3b notified about an error, the written data in track 1 differs from >> original. Could it be that this isn't an error, but because I burned the >> CD ISO to a DVD? >> > > It should be OK on either DVD-R or CD-R - maybe it's just one of those > rand

Re: [64studio-devel] [64studio-users] 3.3-alpha2 - a slightly less bleeding release

2010-04-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Daniel James wrote: > Hi Ralf, > > >> I'm downloading the alpha's ISO right now. Should I upgrade to 2.6.33 >> after the installation is finished or are there any bad issues? >> > > The 2.6.33 kernel is not in the repository yet, don't get too excited :-) > > Cheers! > > Daniel Good morni

Re: [64studio-devel] [64studio-users] 3.3-alpha2 - a slightly less bleeding release

2010-04-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Robin Gareus wrote: > Daniel James wrote: > >> Hi Ralf, hi Robin, >> >> Are there packages for proprietary NVIDIA drivers >>> I did not follow recent discussions to on that subject too closely, but >>> IIRC 64studio won't provide _any_ packages with proprietary software.

Re: [64studio-devel] [64studio-users] 3.3-alpha2 - a slightly less bleeding release

2010-04-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Robin Gareus wrote: > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> Hi Daniel :) >> >> >>> EXT4 file system by default >>> >>> >> When Suse made it default a long time ago I avoided to use ext4after >> make inquiries. I can't rem

Re: [64studio-devel] [64studio-users] 3.3-alpha2 - a slightly less bleeding release

2010-04-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Daniel :) > EXT4 file system by default > When Suse made it default a long time ago I avoided to use ext4after make inquiries. I can't remember the reasons anymore, but there were some issues not to use ext4. Is ext4 without any disadvantages now and is it ok for hard disk recording too?

Re: [64studio-devel] [64studio-users] A request at the hands of the persons responsible for 64 Studio

2010-04-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Daniel James wrote: >> Hi Ralf, >> >> >>> Here the installation failed at campcaster-station. FWIW it's not >>> 3.3 alpha1, but alpha2. >>> >> >> That's actually a test build on the way to alpha2 th

Re: [64studio-devel] [64studio-users] A request at the hands of the persons responsible for 64 Studio

2010-04-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Daniel James wrote: > Hi Ralf, > > >> Here the installation failed at campcaster-station. FWIW it's not 3.3 >> alpha1, but alpha2. >> > > That's actually a test build on the way to alpha2 that you've > downloaded, it's not quite ready :-) > > The inclusion of campcaster (a radio station a

Re: [64studio-devel] Good news

2010-04-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Max Muxe wrote: > Ralf Mardorf schrieb: > >> A friend has got a broken Vista, I tried to repair it, but it didn't >> work. I was able to convert him to Linux. Now I get my 64 Studio >> 3.0-beta3 DVD and will install it on his computer :). >> > Super!

[64studio-devel] Good news

2010-04-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
A friend has got a broken Vista, I tried to repair it, but it didn't work. I was able to convert him to Linux. Now I get my 64 Studio 3.0-beta3 DVD and will install it on his computer :). ___ 64studio-devel mailing list 64studio-devel@lists.64studio.com

Re: [64studio-devel] NVIDIA 3.3 alpha1

2010-04-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Gustin Johnson wrote: > On 10-04-14 09:50 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > >> I'll become a tester regarding to NVIDIA issues for 3.3 alpha1, so I >> enabled receiving mails from the developers list again. >> >> Is there a way to get the install media from

Re: [64studio-devel] [64studio-users] A request at the hands of the persons responsible for 64 Studio

2010-04-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Folderol wrote: > On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:38:51 +0100 > Daniel James wrote: > > >> Hi Diego, >> >> >>> is this 64 Studio Alpha 3.3 version available for download >>> at the moment? >>> >> Yes - there was a very low-key announcement on the development list: >> >> http://lists.64studio

[64studio-devel] NVIDIA 3.3 alpha1

2010-04-14 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> Original Message > Subject: Re: [64studio-users] A request at the hands of the persons > responsible for 64 Studio > Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:55:17 +0100 > From: Daniel James > Reply-To: 64 Studio users mailing list > <64studio-us...@lists.64studio.c

Re: [64studio-devel] [64studio-users] Ardour losing files

2010-02-15 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Frank Smith wrote: > HI All > Not sure what is happening here. > I have a very large ardour setup on this song, over 25 tracks I seem > to be losing tracks. > Here is the error: > > [WARNING]: A sound file is missing. It will be replaced by silence. > [ERROR]: Filesource: cannot find required file

[64studio-devel] X Configuration - [solved]

2009-12-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
dio-users] mobo nvidia6100 max 640x480 <http://lists.64studio.com/pipermail/64studio-users/2009-November/003940.html> /chan / * [64studio-users] mobo nvidia6100 max 640x480 <http://lists.64studio.com/pipermail/64studio-users/2009-November/003941.html> /Ralf Mardorf /

Re: [64studio-devel] [64studio-users] Small install brick-wall

2009-11-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Daniel James wrote: > I'd highly recommend that, it's an excellent tool. As Free pointed out > recently, PDK means people can use our components to prepare their own > .iso with the packages and pre-seed they require, which is potentially > another good way we can differentiate ourselves from Ub

Re: [64studio-devel] [64studio-users] Small install brick-wall

2009-11-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
tim hall wrote: > Hi all, > > A musician friend presented me with a laptop yesterday (Compaq Armada) which > was > running Debris linux(, which looks like YA Ubuntu remix). I wanted to > install 64studio on it, bit it only has a CD drive and no obvious means > of booting from a USB stick. I can't

[64studio-devel] snd-hrtimer

2009-11-07 Thread Ralf Mardorf
mpf / * [LAD] timers <http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-dev/2009-November/025428.html> /Ralf Mardorf / * [LAD] timers <http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-dev/2009-November/025429.html> /James Warden / * [LAD] timers

Re: [64studio-devel] [64studio-users] upgrade kernel to *31 series

2009-10-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
rosea grammostola wrote: > Or is it possible to backport the 64studio jaunty-backport kernel to hardy? > > I guess you are asking for including the jaunty kernel to hardy backports, because of your wireless device. If not, you can get the hardy kernel for jaunty, if you add the hardy backport

Re: [64studio-devel] [64studio-users] linux-image-2.6.31-1-multimedia-amd64

2009-10-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Original Message Subject:Re: [64studio-users] [64studio-devel] linux-image-2.6.31-1-multimedia-amd64 Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:10:20 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf To: Robin Gareus CC: 64studio-us...@lists.64studio.com Robin Gareus wrote: > Hi Ralf, Hi Mit

Re: [64studio-devel] Driver for Linux x86_64 Integrated/Motherboard Radeon Xpress 1250

2009-08-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
you identify the problems, you can add patches in to > /usr/src/fglrx-8.583/patches and lines to identify them to > /usr/src/fglrx-8.593/dkms.conf. > > To issue a rebuild, just do: > > sudo dkms build -m fglrx -v 8.593 > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:11, Ralf Mardorf <mailto:r

Re: [64studio-devel] X settings for 3.0-beta3, previously [64studio-users] Urgent: Ubuntu's X settings

2009-08-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> Hi :) > > I guess this is something the developers list should take note off. If > somebody from the developers list should reply, please reply to the > users list and/or directly to me. > > Gustin Johnson wrote: >> Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >>> Ubun

[64studio-devel] X settings for 3.0-beta3, previously [64studio-users] Urgent: Ubuntu's X settings

2009-08-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) I guess this is something the developers list should take note off. If somebody from the developers list should reply, please reply to the users list and/or directly to me. Gustin Johnson wrote: > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> Ubuntu only has a mystic 'xorg.conf&

Re: [64studio-devel] [64studio-users] 64studio3.0beta4

2009-07-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
guerrier wrote: > Hi > > I tried unsuccessfully to install 64studio3.0Beta4 aka > 64studio_master_i386.iso from > http://pdk.64studio.com/projects/64studio/hardy/images/ . > > I think there is a problem in the installer. The installer failed > when it asked to download full language support. >

[64studio-devel] I build a package for Rubberband and wrote a HOWTO compile Qtractor CVS plus Rubberband (not only) for 64 Studio 3.0-beta3

2009-07-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi *developers* :) maybe you want to use my package for Rubberband for the distro, I can copy and paste a description to the package and build it again, but I only know how to compile for amd64. For replies keep in mind, that I don't receive mails from the developers mailing list. Hi *users* :

[64studio-devel] (My) Timing issues seems to be provisory solved if libjack0.100.0-dev or Qtractor's CVS version would be available for 3.0-beta3

2009-06-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
inux: Rui Nuno Capela wrote: > On Tue, June 23, 2009 05:22, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> Hi all, hi Rui :) >> >> >> the details are for those who wanted a less vague report from me, I guess >> you Rui can skip most of the text. >> >> I'll start w

Re: [64studio-devel] libjack0.100.0-dev

2009-06-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Quentin Harley wrote: > I have added the jack 1.9.2~64studio2 files for amd64 to my personal > repository. Hi Quentin :) but getting JACK2 needs wget and dpkg, because Synaptic ignores it, while gcdmaster and cdrdao can be upgraded by Synaptic from your repository. I guess you need to edit som

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