Bug#946641: stops: Mark stops as 'Multi-Arch: foreign'

2019-12-12 Thread Daniel James
Hi Bernhard, Marking stops as 'Multi-Arch: foreign' should make that installation possible. The package 'stops' contains binary instrument data, which as far as I know, is uniquely created by the undocumented and well-hidden instrument editor feature in aeolus (hold down Ctrl then left-mouse-

Bug#933095: ambdec: Package description could be updated to mention third order signals

2019-07-26 Thread Daniel James
Package: ambdec Version: 0.7.1-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainers, The package description for ambdec says: Ambisonic decoder for first and second order However, the long description for this package says: It can be used for both horizontal and full 3-D systems of first, second and third ord

Re: Bug#907293: stops: Please consider making another upload and refreshing package

2018-08-28 Thread Daniel James
Hi Boyuan, > I am not proposing to remove this package; instead I was proposing of having > MIA team involved and (orphan this package) / (have other maintainers taken > this package care of) That should not be necessary since it is maintained by debian-multimedia. I agree it needs a rebuild no

Re: Bug#907293: stops: Please consider making another upload and refreshing package

2018-08-28 Thread Daniel James
Hi Boyuan, > Dear stops maintainer (Hi Free Ekanayaka) Maintainer for this package is Debian Multimedia Team, it's just that Free was the last uploader. > I was cleaning up packages that hasn't receive any upload in Debian for a > long > time and noticed that your package, stops, received no up

Re: sonic-visualiser is marked for autoremoval from testing

2018-06-21 Thread Daniel James
Hi Petter, > have not heard from any of the other team > members for a while, lack a mailing list to communicate with them It seems this was one of the mailing lists not migrated away from alioth. Would it make sense for all the Xiph packages to be managed via https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia

Re: sonic-visualiser is marked for autoremoval from testing

2018-06-21 Thread Daniel James
Hi all, On 21/06/18 05:40, Debian testing autoremoval watch wrote: > sonic-visualiser 3.0.3-4 is marked for autoremoval from testing on 2018-07-16 > > It (build-)depends on packages with these RC bugs: > 899571: libfishsound: Invalid maintainer address > pkg-xiph-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org S

Re: debian-multimedia: wiki question

2018-02-19 Thread Daniel James
Hi Fabian, > it is highly discouraged to add this repository due to known > breakage and incompatibilities Yes indeed :-) Funny how old info can last a long, long time online. Cheers! Daniel

Re: debian-multimedia: wiki question

2018-02-19 Thread Daniel James
Hi James, hi Toerless, >> How to add Debian Multimedia to your system. > I'm not sure I understand your question exactly. If you want to install > some multimedia packages, there is no need to "add Debian Multimedia" - I think this confusion stems from the time when debian-multimedia.org was an

Re: DABlin main or multimedia?

2017-08-25 Thread Daniel James
Hi Frans, > what advice would you > have for the other software tools sets created by ODR? The same team? Yes indeed, there is a lot of specialist knowledge in this field that doesn't cross over much into the regular multimedia packaging tasks. These are very cool tools and it would be great to

Re: DABlin main or multimedia?

2017-08-25 Thread Daniel James
Hi Frans, > My question, fits DABlin better with main or multimedia? For software defined radio the best team might be https://wiki.debian.org/DebianHams https://blends.debian.org/hamradio/tasks/sdr does include receiver applications. Cheers! Daniel

Re: Bodies shaking

2015-01-07 Thread Daniel James
Hi John, > These fem@les are pleasing themselves with machines!!! Yes, because they run Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianWomen Cheers! Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-multimedia-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian

Re: Demo music in Debian?

2014-12-01 Thread Daniel James
Hi Fabian, > there is the sound-theme-freedesktop package which is > pulled in by all "big" desktop environments and contains a lot of sounds > that could be used as "demo music". Unfortunately, the sound files are > rather well hidden in the file system > in /usr/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo

Enabling ALSA's dsnoop the Debian way

2013-10-21 Thread Daniel James
Hi all, On a wheezy system, /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d/README says: You can place files named *.conf in this folder and they will be processed when initialising alsa-lib. Files in the alsa.conf.d directory are included by /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf so I thought this should work: sudo cp /usr/sh

Re: recent sound cards (available in India) which work on Debian wheezy

2013-09-12 Thread Daniel James
Hi Faheem, > is there a good PCIe sound card that is well supported by Linux? You could look at RME cards, but these may be massively overspecified for what you need. My suggestion would be to go for class-compliant USB audio in most use cases. If you could describe how you use your soundcard (D

Re: Debian tablet computer

2013-06-20 Thread Daniel James
Hi Louis, > If I write you today, it's because we are trying to make possible a free > tablet computer for schools. If I may offer a perspective as a distro developer and parent of a 12-year-old whose school has an ineffective netbook deployment, it's not really about the hardware. In my view, s

Re: About sound card support

2013-04-04 Thread Daniel James
Hi Rupesh, > I am able to play music files in other linux distros like > Fedora19,opensuse 12.2 by installing mp3 codecs without installation of > drivers from me. OK, that is a different issue, the mp3 codec is totally separate from ALSA driver support for your sound chip. Can you play a .wav fi

Re: About sound card support

2013-04-04 Thread Daniel James
Hi Rupesh, > previously I have used squeeze and wheezy testing (weekly build) and > there was no hardware support for my sound card so I have to download > drivers from vendors site and compile it. > > My hardware details: > AMD FX 4100 cpu > GIGABYTE 78LMT S2PT motherboard > Audio Chipset Realte

Re: Presentation + A debian-based for audio creation and production, stage technics and video blend (or "the future of TangoStudio")

2012-11-12 Thread Daniel James
Hi Andreas, > We > have seen *lots* of specialised distribution (not only in Multimedia) > that tried to address specific user interests and finally most of these > are stalled / unmaintained now because they never gained enough critical > mass to keep on the initial momentum. That's a reasonable

Re: Presentation + A debian-based for audio creation and production, stage technics and video blend (or "the future of TangoStudio")

2012-11-12 Thread Daniel James
project could not support any distro with a third-party kernel build. Cheers! Daniel James Director 64 Studio Ltd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-multimedia-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/50a0c6c6.90...@64studio.com

Re: List of required packages.

2012-09-11 Thread Daniel James
Hi Weaver, > "Playback failure: > DVDRead could not open the disc "/dev/dvd". Check that the symlink /dev/dvd points to your DVD drive like this: ls -l /dev/dvd If you get: ls: cannot access /dev/dvd: No such file or directory then you either need to create the symlink, or specify the correct

Re: What's the best audio software to set up on a 32-bit processor?

2011-03-14 Thread Daniel James
Hi Charlie, > Find a Debian release (upgradeable) specifically for multimedia and > start again (remember everything is 32-bit, will Studio 64 work)? If you choose the 32-bit version, yes. > Buy components to build me an up-to-date computer? The spec you have will be fine to get started with.

Re: Very helpful responses, thank you listmembers

2011-03-14 Thread Daniel James
Hi Diego, > I think that last beta version of 64studio has lxde insted gnome We did look at LXDE as an option, but for our next release (4.0, Squeeze-based) we'll be going back to GNOME. Cheers! Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-multimedia-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Sound on multi-user system

2011-01-14 Thread Daniel James
Hi Adrian, > With regard to jackd: leave it out of the equation. jackd is for > producing audio, it runs in very specific environments, let's think of a > recording studio for a while. Switching users normally doesn't happen. What if jackd runs as one user, and all subsequent users connect as net

Re: Handbrake - broken build

2010-02-03 Thread Daniel James
Hi James, The build of handbrake that is in debian-multimedia is broken. Would it be possible to update it? This list is quiet these days, the action has moved to: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers I don't think handbrake is a Debian package, did you

JACK2 package naming convention

2009-09-25 Thread Daniel James
Hi all, I have built some JACK2 (1.9.3) debs for Lenny, and Ubuntu Hardy and Jaunty, based on the Debianization by Nedko Arnaudov. However some users still want to use JACK1 versions (such as 0.116.2), pointing out that some features are not yet fully available in JACK2. For instance, FireWir

Re: [Fwd: Re: Denemo]

2009-08-19 Thread Daniel James
Hi Pietro, the situation of the package denemo is perfectly described in the following: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=513285 I understand your frustration. On the other hand, it's great to see that Denemo is still under active development. Cheers! Daniel -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Bug#536061: amsynth: failed to initialise JACK... aborting

2009-07-21 Thread Daniel James
Hi Nick, If all's well I'll put out a new release of the code in the next few days, of course it would be very reassuring to know that what's now in svn compiles and works on someone else's machine before doing so :-) I just built today's SVN against a locally built JACK 1.9.2 on 64 Studio 3.

Re: Bug#536061: amsynth: failed to initialise JACK... aborting

2009-07-21 Thread Daniel James
Hi Adrian, I just did a source build of 1.9.2 in /usr/local using waf, it works fine for Hydrogen, but neither amsynth or mx44 packages work. Did you build your amsynth and mx44 from source? Yup. Then I guess amsynth and mx44 will work with JACK 2 if built locally against a compatible ve

Re: Bug#536061: amsynth: failed to initialise JACK... aborting

2009-07-10 Thread Daniel James
Hi Adrian, Are you sure your jack2 package is in good shape? ;) I just did a source build of 1.9.2 in /usr/local using waf, it works fine for Hydrogen, but neither amsynth or mx44 packages work. Did you build your amsynth and mx44 from source? Cheers! Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Bug#536061: amsynth: failed to initialise JACK... aborting

2009-07-10 Thread Daniel James
Hi Adrian, No problems over here with plain jack2-1.9.2. Works out of the box. Same is true for amsynth: works like a charm with jack2. Are you sure your jack2 package is in good shape? ;) Possibly an update to 1.9.2 would fix this, perhaps upstream have put in some backwards compatibility o

Re: Bug#536061: amsynth: failed to initialise JACK... aborting

2009-07-10 Thread Daniel James
Hi Adrian, Cannot connect ports owned by inactive clients: "amSynth" is not active This is simple to fix. The process callback return value was ignored in jack1, so everybody returned 0. In jack2, returning 0 means "problems", so you just return 1 (true) and everything is fine. The patch I se

Re: Bug#536061: amsynth: failed to initialise JACK... aborting

2009-07-10 Thread Daniel James
Hi Reinhard, # ldconfig -p | grep jack libjackserver.so.0 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/libjackserver.so.0 libjack.so.0 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib/libjack.so.0 libjack.so.0 (libc6) => /usr/lib32/libjack.so.0 libjack.so (libc6) => /usr/lib32/libjack.so this looks pr

Bug#536061: amsynth: failed to initialise JACK... aborting

2009-07-07 Thread Daniel James
Hi Adrian, amsynth cannot be used with jack. This cannot be true. I just tried it on two different machines To clarify, amsynth works with original JACK but not JACK 2, a.k.a jackdmp. This is because amsynth's JACK connection code is a little non-standard, and needs a rewrite to bring it u

Re: Visiontek ATI Radeon "All-In-Wonder" Delux card

2009-06-26 Thread Daniel James
Hi John, Any one here using this card effectively with Linux? It would help to know which chipset this card uses, there are many different Radeon cards offered by that manufacturer: http://graphics.visiontek.com/video/4000/4870x2.html When you find out, I suggest looking up that chipset on

Bug#522150: amsynth: Depends on libjack0.100.0-0

2009-04-02 Thread Daniel James
Hi Felipe, jack2 is not going to be in debian soonish JACK 2 has been the upstream release since February, so I hope it will be in Sid soon. we are transitioning from versioned jack packages to unversioned ones, so this should be fixed anyways. Well, JACK 2 is a complete rewrite so there

Bug#522150: amsynth: Depends on libjack0.100.0-0

2009-04-01 Thread Daniel James
Hi Felipe, The Debian Multimedia Maintainers will be dropping libjack0.100.0-0 soon, so you should switch to using upstream's default name. Changing libjack0.100.0-0 to libjack0 in debian/control and dropping debian/patches/80_libjack.dpatch should be enough. Unfortunately not in the longer te

Re: RT prio settings and much more

2009-03-13 Thread Daniel James
Hi Felipe, Ardour embedded many libraries that could easily be stripped out: they were just convenience copies. Or put another way, known working copies for quality control purposes :-) Ardour developers can't be expected to support binaries that distros break. I agree this is not best pra

Re: RT prio settings and much more

2009-03-11 Thread Daniel James
Hi Rosea, Not a good thing that such a core application is not in Debian stable / testing. True, but Lenny users can get a backport of Ardour 2.7 here: http://apt.64studio.com/backports/pool/main/a/ardour/ Why does other distro's like Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuse have it included? Ubuntu prob

Re: RT prio settings and much more

2009-03-11 Thread Daniel James
Hi Raffaele, I can't go in deep about debian packages accept/reject workflow and policy stuff but non-free repository should allow some compromise in these direction... It wasn't about free versus non-free (for once), it was that Ardour developers were forced to embedded their own forked ver

Re: RT prio settings and much more

2009-03-11 Thread Daniel James
Hi Raffaele, "Debian does not support multimedia desktop/laptop users 'out of the box'." If you all were coding for debian packages probably they will ;-) We do, but what the Debian project chooses to make a priority is not under the control of the small multimedia packaging team. For example

Re: RT prio settings and much more

2009-03-11 Thread Daniel James
Hi Raffaele, Why only in 64studio and not in plain Debian? maybe if they did it on debian nobody would pick up 64 studio anymore... We have been contributing to Debian for years. The reason for a specialist distribution is that official Debian does not support multimedia desktop/lapto

Re: RT prio settings and much more

2009-03-10 Thread Daniel James
Hi Rosea, - FFADO: libfreebob is outdated, there are so many users in #ffado asking for FFADO packages. We're aiming to have this package in 64 Studio 3.0, we also need to change our 2.6.29-rc4 kernel to support the old firewire stack though. Why only in 64studio and not in plain Debi

Re: RT prio settings and much more

2009-03-10 Thread Daniel James
Hi Adrian, - FFADO: libfreebob is outdated, there are so many users in #ffado asking for FFADO packages. We're aiming to have this package in 64 Studio 3.0, we also need to change our 2.6.29-rc4 kernel to support the old firewire stack though. New package: http://calf.sf.net. IMHO,

Re: bug reports and wishes

2009-01-13 Thread Daniel James
Hi Rosea, How do I set my system so it is sending the bugreport automatically using email? By installing the reportbug package, e.g. for Lenny: http://packages.debian.org/lenny/reportbug Cheers! Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-multimedia-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: bug reports and wishes

2009-01-13 Thread Daniel James
Hi Rosea, How should I report bugs? First, search for the package name on http://www.debian.org/Bugs/ to see if someone has already reported a particular bug. If so, click the link on the bug page to reply or subscribe by email to the bug report. If it really is a new bug, use the reportbu

Re: how can I contribute?

2009-01-08 Thread Daniel James
Hi Rosea, Can I invite more people to join the Debian-multimedia team and improve Debian for music production? Do you need more people to contribute? I think help is always welcome. I think it's a question of finding the right tasks for the right people though. Debian welcomes experienced d

Re: how can I contribute?

2009-01-06 Thread Daniel James
Hi Rosea, I was thinking of building one or more packages which are not yet in Debian. I'm interested in 'music-making-applications'... I would strongly recommend that you only package applications which you personally use, which gives you the strongest incentive to maintain them. You might

Re: introduction / problem with video files

2009-01-01 Thread Daniel James
Hi Boris, > I bought a digital video camcorder and have big troubles with the > produced file format. It's a Toshiba Gigashot K80HE. Try a recent version of vlc or mplayer for playback, they are more likely to support this format than totem. > Now I want to process the files on my desktop PC and

Re: Multimedia Teams in Debian

2008-11-21 Thread Daniel James
Hi Free, The main point of merging the two projects for me would be have a single project more active and more visible, which can possibly attract more developers (that's what is needed now by d-m). After a merger, we could identify which multimedia packages are maintained by DD's that are me

Re: liblo0-dev

2008-11-19 Thread Daniel James
Hi Felipe, hi all, I think that merging with the pkg-multimedia team would make some sense. At least there would be more than 1 DD to sponsor potential contributors. Sounds good - are there any objections to the idea? Cheers! Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: liblo0-dev

2008-11-19 Thread Daniel James
Hi Free, the Debian Multimedia Team in general is seriously lacking man power at the moment :( Is there a statistic which will help us identify which packages are falling behind? Something like a chart showing Sid version against upstream version, perhaps? The charts at http://www.debian-m

Re: Please upload wavbreaker 0.10 to Debian unstable

2008-10-23 Thread Daniel James
Hi Thomas, I've finished the packaging of a new version of wavbreaker (version 0.10) in June 2008 and have since tried to get someone to upload it to Debian. Have you considered applying to become a Debian Maintainer, as it doesn't sound like you have a sponsor for your packages? http://wi

Bug#495771: [openmovieeditor] crashes always by setting of ffmpeg parameters

2008-08-20 Thread Daniel James
Hi Marek, Go to "Project -> Render", in the presets choose "ffmpeg" then "Edit", in Video Section take "Options" and then choose "Initial RC complexity" or "Initial RC buffer occupancy" or "Quantizer compression" or "Quantizer blur" or "Luminance masking" or "Darkness masking" or "Temporary comp

Bug#493001: Editor window blank white due to max texture size

2008-07-30 Thread Daniel James
Package: openmovieeditor Version: 0.0.20080102-2.1+b1 Severity: important On certain hardware where openmovieeditor reports GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE = 1024 on startup, the video editing window is blank white and therefore the program is unusable. The problem is detailed here: http://www.openmoviee

Re: Ardour still not present in testing

2008-07-23 Thread Daniel James
Hi all, Has there been any progress in getting any version of ardour into Lenny? Not as far as I know, so no useful info from me. But, I just wanted to note that 2.5 was recently released and might possibly resolve the non-security bugs (maybe, hopefully?) At the moment, the main issue rega

Re: Conflicts when repackaging JACK

2008-07-10 Thread Daniel James
Hi Nick, > The problem is that the new libjack0 refuses to install over the old packages without being forced. In these lines: dpkg: regarding jackd_0.109.2-3mlrepo1_i386.deb containing jackd: libjack0 conflicts with jackd (>> 0.109.2-2mepcom1) jackd (version 0.109.2-3mlrepo1) is to be inst

Re: Conflicts when repackaging JACK

2008-07-09 Thread Daniel James
Hi Nick, I think these are the pertinent lines: libjack0.100.0-0 depends on libjack0 (>= 0.109.2-3mlrepo1); however: Version of libjack0 on system is 0.109.2-2mepcom1. libjack-dev depends on libjack0 (= 0.109.2-3mlrepo1); however: Version of libjack0 on system is 0.109.2-2mepcom1. Th

Bug#482509: idjc: FTBFS: Nonexistent build-dependency: liblame-dev

2008-06-03 Thread Daniel James
Hi Peter, IMO it is a very bad idea to have a package build against a legally dubious library just because the system it was built on happened to have it installed. lame itself is not legally dubious, it's just unfortunate in being liable to software patent enforcement on MP3 encoding. That'

Bug#446405: ardour: Embeds too many libs

2008-05-29 Thread Daniel James
Hi Antony, libsndfile isn't the only library that is affected of course, there are several others Right. is the same activity taking place, to integrate patches with those? Hopefully we can tackle those one-by-one after libsndfile is sorted out. Cheers! Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#446405: ardour: Embeds too many libs

2008-05-29 Thread Daniel James
Hi Antony, It's a shame this hasn't been looked at yet. I hope ardour makes it into Lenny. Various people are working on this - the latest plan is to get a new release of libsndfile upstream, so that Ardour doesn't need to embed a copy. I have been doing a little research into this, and a

Re: Ardour still not present in testing

2008-05-22 Thread Daniel James
Hi Erik, I recently had a look at what was in ardour SVN and distilled a patch which is currently in my development tree. A new libsndfile release sounds like the best solution for Debian to me. Any objections, Paul D? I'm getting really close to a proper 1.0.18 release. The only major thi

Re: Ardour still not present in testing

2008-05-08 Thread Daniel James
Hi Paul, About libsndfile, how about the Debian libsndfile source package is modified so that it produces a normal libsndfile library and a libsndfile-ardour for ardour to build against. Or how about the libsndfile1 Debian package maintainer, Anand Kumria, is asked to apply the Ardour team's

Is anyone packaging or testing LADSPA v2 (slv2) ?

2008-05-08 Thread Daniel James
Hello all, I was curious if anyone is packaging or just testing LADSPA v2, a.k.a slv2? There are some Debian packages available here: http://download.drobilla.net/debian/ I think we need this for Lenny. Apart from the eye-candy aspect offered by Lv2's native GUI's, I believe there is much be

Re: Ardour still not present in testing

2008-05-02 Thread Daniel James
Hi Paul W, Does anyone know if the below stuff are external libraries? I know that clearlooks is a gtk theme and libsndfile is an external library, but I'm not sure about the rest. libraries['vamp'] = LibraryInfo (LIBS='vampsdk', LIBPATH='#libs/vamp-sdk',

Re: Ardour still not present in testing

2008-05-02 Thread Daniel James
Hi Paul W, someone needs to get in contact with upstream and educate them about the evilness of embedded code copies. I don't think that's a very helpful approach. The Ardour team are already aware of Debian's reservations about the embedded libraries. Consider that the Ardour team do not w

Re: Ardour still not present in testing

2008-05-02 Thread Daniel James
Hi Paul, Security isn't the only reason embedded libraries are bad. On the other hand, what about the right of an upstream development team to specify the versions of libraries which they require, patching them as necessary? Even with libraries built in, the Ardour package is still smaller

Re: Ardour still not present in testing

2008-05-01 Thread Daniel James
Hi Felipe, Actually, when/if it builds it won't go either, since it has 4 RC bugs and there is no version in testing. Is there any way we can resolve this? Can we just get security support removed so that the embedding of libraries is no longer an issue? I seriously doubt that Ardour is ins

Re: Multimedia Teams in Debian

2008-04-23 Thread Daniel James
Hi Fabian, If there' still documentation referring to these obsolete sites, please point the doc authors to this fact (e.g. by filing bug reports). I do that whenever I see it, but there's a lot of old information out there. For 64studio, I have to admit I don't know the differences between

Re: Multimedia Teams in Debian

2008-04-23 Thread Daniel James
Hi Fabian, AFAIUI the debian-multimedia team is more focussed on applications while the pkg-multimedia-maintainers team ist focussed on libraries. There is no further connection between those two teams, which is a pity if you ask me... Perhaps all interested parties can regroup somehow. A l

Which is the official Debian logo colour?

2008-02-28 Thread Daniel James
Hello folks, I'm hoping there might be someone on the list who can give me a definitive answer on this :-) I'm preparing some new graphics for the 64 Studio site, which include the Debian logo. I've taken a look at the various logo files (PNG, SVG, JPEG, EPS, XCF) on http://www.debian.org/lo

Re: CinePaint removed from testing

2008-01-31 Thread Daniel James
Hi Steve, (hrm; apparently I've been bcc:ed?) Not by me, I don't know how it happened :-) That would be the bug that caused cinepaint to be removed from testing, but the package has also been removed now from unstable due to http://bugs.debian.org/437837 That report is not completely accur

Re: CinePaint removed from testing

2008-01-31 Thread Daniel James
Hi Robin, > Can someone here take that on, become the CinePaint Debian maintainer? Ideally it would be someone who is a regular CinePaint user. Could you survey the CinePaint userbase to find out if you have any Debian Developers among them? What do we do about the issue that CinePaint nee

Re: CinePaint removed from testing

2008-01-30 Thread Daniel James
Hi Felipe, > There was an attempt to reintroduce it to debian by Thanasis Kinias, but so far nothing has happened. I suggest Robin gets in touch with Thanasis to figure this one out, and get a GTK+ 2 build together. It's true that this application has no replacement in Debian, or the free so

Bug#450806: libjack0: does not allow connecting to two JACK servers

2007-11-13 Thread Daniel James
Hi Frank, Do you know if this patch has been accepted upstream? No, I haven't reported it upstream, only via Debian. I think it might be a good idea to get the view of the upstream developers on this patch, because as I understand it, jack_diplomat is undocumented and unmaintained. I don't

Bug#450806: libjack0: does not allow connecting to two JACK servers

2007-11-13 Thread Daniel James
Hi Frank, The following patch, taken from http://spark.woaf.net/jack_diplomat-0.70.tar.bz2, released by Dave Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> under GPLv2, fixes the problem. Do you know if this patch has been accepted upstream? Cheers! Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: [64studio-devel] Audio and multimedia applications which need help

2007-10-19 Thread Daniel James
Hi Tim, I would appreciate it if anyone feels like checking out whether it is at least accurate, as well as letting me know if there are any important applications I've overlooked or shouldn't be there. I think seq24 needs help. I understand from our seq24 users there are a number of very u

Bug#436330: vkeybd: FTBFS: error: linux/awe_voice.h: No such file or directory

2007-08-07 Thread Daniel James
Hi Lucas, During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build on i386. oper_awe.c: In function 'seq_open': oper_awe.c:146: error: 'SAMPLE_TYPE_AWE32' undeclared (first use in this function) In the Makefile from the original source package, it says: # device selections --

Re: ardour

2007-07-10 Thread Daniel James
Hi Igor, I try to use ardour-1:2.0.2-2 and get the following output: ***MEMORY-WARNING***: [26416]: GSlice: g_thread_init() must be called before all other GLib functions; memory corruption due to late invocation of g_thread_init() has been detected; this program is likely to crash, leak or u

Re: time zone

2007-06-25 Thread Daniel James
Hi jj, The time on my desktop is set to UTC. I'll like to read it EST. Is there something as simple as dpkg-reconfigure timezone ? Even easier, you can right click on the clock in Gnome and select Adjust Date & Time :-) I installed datetimeconf It might be best to uninstall that, it co

Re: /etc is gone

2007-06-19 Thread Daniel James
Hi jj, I have been have trouble with my debian box(64 studio). i just discovered that /etc directory is missing. I would recommend a clean install, because /etc stores most of your configuration files. Without that directory, you're going to have a lot of trouble. Cheers! Daniel -- To

Bug#427471: A more accurate short description

2007-06-04 Thread Daniel James
solves system lock-ups by making all processes non-realtime -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#427471: A better short description?

2007-06-04 Thread Daniel James
solves system lock-ups by making rogue processes non-realtime -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#425830: Wrong section, should be under 'graphics' not 'sound'

2007-05-24 Thread Daniel James
Package: create-resources Version: 0.1.3-1 Severity: minor The files currently in this package are mostly for the Gimp, so it would better to list the package in the 'graphics' section rather 'sound' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: create_0.1.3-2_amd64.changes REJECTED

2007-05-08 Thread Daniel James
Hi Joerg, The package name is a little bit too generic - "create". And yes, even if its upstreams name (a very bad name selection looking at its contents). How about 'creative-resources' for a package name? Cheers! Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Bug#422076: Re: Bug#422076: Re: Bug#422076: Can not start jackd, fails with Illegalinstruction

2007-05-04 Thread Daniel James
Hi Mihkel, flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up Your processor does not have SSE, but it does have 3DNow! extensions. Later Athlons have both, so I guess it's not a case of needing one or the other for

Bug#422076: Re: Bug#422076: Can not start jackd, fails with Illegal instruction

2007-05-04 Thread Daniel James
Hi Mihkel, I installed 0.103.0-1 and jack will start. Could you post the output of: cat /proc/cpuinfo please? I believe these optimisations require SSE or 3DNow! to be available on your CPU. If your CPU is older than Pentium III, it may not have them. Cheers! Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: BWF audio format

2007-04-26 Thread Daniel James
Hi Tim, hi Martin, I'm not familiar with BWF format It's a variant of WAV, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BWF The Audacity project has recently been working on support for BWF: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=C2446D12.15194%25audacity%40homerow.net&forum_name=aud

Re: LinuxSampler?

2007-04-25 Thread Daniel James
Hi Ismael, A valid concern, probably, but one anybody developing GPL code could have! That's true, but in this case the risk is higher than usual. Firstly because music hardware companies have poor awareness of the GPL, compared to say... network hardware companies (and some of them are bad

Re: LinuxSampler?

2007-04-25 Thread Daniel James
Hi Ismael, What is the status of packaging LinuxSampler for Debian? Isn't it a completely frozen proyect? Not at all, it's under active development. My understanding of the situation is this... The LinuxSampler developers were concerned that a hardware company would take their GPL'd code

Re: Any plans for packaging Aeolus?

2007-04-13 Thread Daniel James
Hi Tomas, I just wanted to ask if there are any plans for including the pipe organ emulator Aeolus in Debian. We have it on our to-do list for 64 Studio, so it will get uploaded to Debian unstable at some point. Cheers! Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Jackd hell and other oddities

2007-04-13 Thread Daniel James
Hi Ismael, > Here in Spain people just ask "No Cubase, no Reason, no Ableton Live there!? Shit!" It's not much different in the UK. Most electronic musicians seem to have very little respect for copyright or software licences, so trying to encourage them to use free software on the basis of

Re: Jackd hell and other oddities

2007-04-13 Thread Daniel James
Hi Marco, As for Daniel suggestions on Alioth/Demudi I suggest not to ask to anybody else than "real" Debian devs. The reason I suggested Free contact Nicola Bernardini was because the demudi.org domain name is registered to Nicola personally, until the year 2011. There are many references t

Re: Jackd hell and other oddities

2007-04-13 Thread Daniel James
Hi Herman, Can you enumerate the most important non-free pieces of software, firmware and drivers, so we can figure out what is missing to from a completely Free music- and audiovisiual workstation? I'd say the alsa audio/midi device firmware is probably most important. I don't know if ffado

Re: debconf7

2007-04-12 Thread Daniel James
Hi Herman, Debian installer already has tasksel. I propose two new tasks: a) Audio workstation b) Video workstation It might be harder to separate these out in future, because many video tools have audio features, and some, like Open Movie Editor, are integrated with Jack transport. You mig

Re: Jackd hell and other oddities

2007-04-12 Thread Daniel James
Hi Free, Well, a possible definition of the group could be the list of the Alioth's project members http://alioth.debian.org/projects/demudi Do you think it would be possible to ask Nicola Bernardini to redirect demudi.org to this alioth page? The Plone site created by the Agnula project wh

Re: Jackd hell and other oddities

2007-04-12 Thread Daniel James
Hi Herman, Like most other users, creators want their stuff to "just work". I don't think those connecting a cheap USB MIDI keyboard to their Linux box deserve to be considered pioneers or freaks. I completely agree, and we do support that kind of device in 64 Studio. However for the free sof

Re: Jackd hell and other oddities

2007-04-11 Thread Daniel James
Hi Ismael, > Musix kernels are packaged by Tapani Raikkonen This may have changed recently, but last month they used our 2.6.17 package in their 0.99 release, see under 'New Software Packages' here: http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-announce/2007-March/000932.html The more pa

Re: Jackd hell and other oddities

2007-04-10 Thread Daniel James
Hi Marco, 1) A multimedia/desktop oriented kernel like the one in 64Studio or here: ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/deb/kernel/n I believe Musix now uses the 64 Studio kernel packages, so that's one less variable ;-) Ubuntu Studio is not going for a Molnar-style RT kernel, according to

Re: debconf7

2007-04-05 Thread Daniel James
Hi Eric, Will there be enough people from this list there to warrant setting up a multimedia bof or working group session? I could give a talk on 64 Studio, as part of the DebianDay user conference on the 16th. > I would like to meet with interested persons to discuss goals for lenny. No