Re: [64studio-users] How mane left?

2011-10-11 Thread Dave Phillips
On 10/11/2011 06:46 AM, paul.beaud...@hsbc.com wrote: ... I need an upgrade (or something) to stop my machine from hanging regularly. Getting a bit stuck now... any friendly advice? http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/arch-tale :) Best, dp ___

Re: [64studio-users] VST on 3.3 alpha amd64 - was: 64studio-users Digest, Vol 36, Issue 12

2010-05-18 Thread Dave Phillips
Ralf Mardorf wrote: If I run $ vsthost JCM900.dll (see [1]) everything seems to be ok, but the GUI is missing. Because it has no GUI ? I tried it with FST and Festige, same results. The plugin launches fine, with no GUI. Testing VST compatibility... dssi-vst-server[1]: VST 2.4

Re: [64studio-users] Debug shutdown delay

2010-02-09 Thread Dave Phillips
Greetings, From notes made during my last Ubuntu install (Karmic) : Shutdown didn't work properly until i fixed /etc/init.d/umountfs : this line: fstab-decode umount -f -r -d $WEAK_MTPTS becomes: fstab-decode umount -r -d $WEAK_MTPTS and this line: fstab-decode umount -f -v -r -d

Re: [64studio-users] Any ideas as regards Firewire?

2009-12-30 Thread Dave Phillips
Frank Smith wrote: HI Dave here is the errors: stu...@64studio:~$ sudo modprobe ieee1394 FATAL: Module ieee1394 not found. stu...@64studio:~$ sudo modprobe raw1394 FATAL: Module raw1394 not found. stu...@64studio:~$ modprobe ohci1394 **

Re: [64studio-users] Any ideas as regards Firewire?

2009-12-28 Thread Dave Phillips
Frank Smith wrote: I have 4 tapes on my camera that I need to get into 64studio. It seems forewire is no longer an option. Is there any Linux distro that now supports firewire?. I really didn't see this one coming. I have Firewire ports available on both my desktop boxes. All the distros in

Re: [64studio-users] Any ideas as regards Firewire?

2009-12-28 Thread Dave Phillips
Frank Smith wrote: I cannot get the raw1394 to load at all. Kino complains rightly that it is not loaded. When I ran Kino as root I used to be able to use the camera ok. But now I cannot. After looking around there seem to be talk of FFado not working in the newer kernels. maybe I got

Re: [64studio-users] What DV Camcorders are supported

2009-10-20 Thread Dave Phillips
Kevin Donnelly wrote: I wouldn't suggest you use Cinelerra - it is too complex for your purposes. I looked at GOPchop (http://gopchop.sourceforge.net), but the available version crashes on importing a file in 64Studio (and development seems to have stopped in 2005 anyway). Kdenlive is

Re: [64studio-users] comments from a noob

2009-10-13 Thread Dave Phillips
Ralf Mardorf wrote: Dave could you solve the trouble with the MidiSport? I guess such reports should be send to this user list too, to prevent people to buy such devices. IIRC Clemens Ladisch suggested upgrading to the latest ALSA, but I have not yet done so. I solved my problem with the

Re: [64studio-users] comments from a noob

2009-10-11 Thread Dave Phillips
Kevin Donnelly wrote: If a new user comes to this list and reviews posts over the last 6 months, what is he/she going to see? Probably about 70% of them are from Ralf, listing a variety of problems he is having with 64Studio. The new user may conclude that this is a buggy distro, or

Re: [64studio-users] 64studio VSTs with FST or dssi-vst

2009-08-02 Thread Dave Phillips
Mathias Krause wrote: ok ... so what I think at the moment: For making music, Linux is NOT a good alternative at the moment, especially if one needs to use a lot of VST instruments. For recording and mixing, things look different. What do you think? Hi Mathias, I would say it depends

Re: [64studio-users] 64studio VSTs with FST or dssi-vst

2009-08-02 Thread Dave Phillips
Mathias Krause wrote: However, I will point out that those of us who can actually play those traditional instruments are more fun at parties and other impromptu events. Hitting the spacebar on a laptop just doesn't compete with the drama of a fingerpicking guitarist trying to woo the

Re: [64studio-users] To write a trouble shooting list for MIDI on Linux, I like to get some experiential reports

2009-07-12 Thread Dave Phillips
Ralf Mardorf wrote: Sorry Rui, sorry list, but while there are a vast number of sides that discuss and try to solve troubles with MIDI when using modern computers that run Windows or MacOS, for Linux I only found stupid prejudices about the MIDI standard, no serious discussion, no trouble

Re: [64studio-users] LMMS

2009-06-27 Thread Dave Phillips
Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi David, Daniel, Quentin and list :) if I'm not mistaken you David are author for a linux magazine. Someone is using the source code of LMMS to make money and it seems to be legal and it might be an advantage to spread this software, anyhow, I do feel bad with this

Re: [64studio-users] LMMS

2009-06-27 Thread Dave Phillips
Grammostola Rosea wrote: Do you think he would sell anything if he says, you also can download it for free here? That depends upon the perceived worth of his value-added inclusions, whatever they might be. In effect you're purchasing his extras and getting LMMS bundled in. Best, dp

Re: [64studio-users] LMMS

2009-06-27 Thread Dave Phillips
Ralf Mardorf wrote: I understand your opinion. I'm really sure, without any doubt, that the Beatmachine guy (Aaron) is a crook, but he made sure that this can't be proved from an absolutely impartial view, even if he is a liar, in the context of his advertising. Monitoring him is a good

Re: [64studio-users] LMMS

2009-06-27 Thread Dave Phillips
Ralf Mardorf wrote: Dave Phillips wrote: Grammostola Rosea wrote: Do you think he would sell anything if he says, you also can download it for free here? That depends upon the perceived worth of his value-added inclusions, whatever they might be. In effect you're purchasing

Re: [64studio-users] grub beta 3 amd64

2009-05-13 Thread Dave Phillips
Daniel James wrote: Mark wrote, Anyway, it would not even boot. Same problem with the rt kernel in Ubuntu 9.04. Some details about that problem would be welcome. Stay tuned for my upcoming article in the Linux Journal, it details my trials tribulations with Ubuntu Jaunty and

Re: [64studio-users] grub beta 3 amd64

2009-05-13 Thread Dave Phillips
Daniel James wrote: it was no picnic getting things this far and I will not be surprised if users report problems similar to the ones I encountered. I'd be very interested to read about that, as we're currently developing a product based on Jaunty sources. Some background: I want at

[64studio-users] praise

2009-04-27 Thread Dave Phillips
Greetings, I've been using the beta of 64 Studio 3 for a while now. Last night I was playing around with Hermann Meyer's guitarix (locally compiled), running my guitar through an Edirol UA25. QJackCtl is set up to give a latency of ~8 ms with no xruns. Everything was going along beautifully,

Re: [64studio-users] Beta 3 nvidia driver install

2009-04-19 Thread Dave Phillips
Frank Smith wrote: I cannot install the nvidia drivers if I go to single run level I'm missing some 'cc' thing not in my path installer then quits. It seemed to be easier to install nvidia drivers then now. I'm now stuck on 1080x on a large screen. Any ideas? Hi Bob/Frank, I've installed

[64studio-users] grub problem redux

2009-03-28 Thread Dave Phillips
Greetings, My notebook currently hosts two installations, a plain-vanilla Ubuntu 8.10 and 64 Studio 3.0 beta. The active grub menu is located in the 64 Studio partition (it was installed after Intrepid). How do I ensure that additions to the bootable kernels in 8.10 get added to 64 Studio's

[64studio-users] question about rt kernels

2009-03-22 Thread Dave Phillips
Greetings, It's been a couple of weeks since I was last able to get into the 3.0 beta. I fired up the system yesterday and found that I now have a nice selection of rt-enabled kernels. And here's where I need some advice: Which should I employ ? To recap, here's my hardware: HP notebook with

Re: [64studio-users] more report on beta2

2009-02-28 Thread Dave Phillips
Ross wrote: Dave Phillips wrote: After some tricky tricks I was able to install nVidia's binary driver, which works fine and now gives me excellent graphics on the machine (an HP G60-series notebook). Any chance of sharing the tricky tricks? I am having problems getting binary