[puredyne] announcement from the Puredyne developers

2012-02-05 Thread Dan S
Dear Puredyne community, As you might have noticed, Puredyne's development has somewhat stalled with our latest release being Carrot and Coriander. While still working perfectly on most machines, this release is now pretty old. If you follow the list and IRC regularly you are aware that we have be

Re: [puredyne] FLOSS Philosophy & Current Puredyne Impasse

2012-02-05 Thread Dan S
Hi, Yes, what you say makes sense. It's often difficult in FLOSS to be sure about beginnings and endings, boundaries etc. The development team has been facing up to the lack of development in recent weeks and has been drafting a letter to the puredyne community. I will now post this letter to the

Re: [puredyne] Puredyne Digest, Vol 80, Issue 8

2012-02-02 Thread Dan S
's Topics: >> >>   1. Re: Puredyne in hp dm1 3080 (Geofroy Tremblay) >>   2. [README] Where is Karsten + paypal update (Aymeric Mansoux) >>   3. Re: [README] Where is Karsten + paypal update (Aymeric Mansoux) >>   4. Re: Puredyne in hp dm1 3080 (felix nicol?s

[puredyne] Fwd: SuperCollider 2012 programme announced

2012-01-19 Thread Dan S
-- Forwarded message -- Hi all, The programme for the SuperCollider Symposium 2012 is now out! Get your tickets... This April will see musicians, artists and coders come to London for a festival of what can be done with the SuperCollider audio programming environment. Tickets are

Re: [puredyne] fresh foss/floss articles (ot)

2011-11-28 Thread Dan S
I liked this paper: http://su.kuri.mu/0001/2011MY.LAWYER.IS.AN.ARTIST/ 2011/11/28 Julian Brooks : > Hi all, > > I'm hoping some people can point me towards any new and interesting > FLOSS/FOSS papers/articles that have caught your imagination, preferably > with a musical slant but not nece

Re: [puredyne] ERROR: open directory failed ----/SuperCollider/Extensions

2011-11-06 Thread Dan S
2011/11/6 ege : > > anthillsocial wrote: >> >> >> ERROR: open directory failed '/home/tom/share/SuperCollider/Extensions' >> > > I can't understand why the start of sclang can't find your Extensions dir.. It says it can't *open* it, not that it can't find it - I guess it might be a permissions pro

Re: [puredyne] Latest MacOS situation for C development

2011-09-02 Thread Dan S
I'm too busy to be detailed, so sorry, but: newish mac machines plus live USB boot of puredyne has been a total pain for me recently. "Faultless"? No. We're trying to improve this but we mostly don't use macs so we can't prioritise it at all. Dan 2011/9/2 Andy Farnell : > > Hi all, > > Wondering

[puredyne] Fwd: [linux] SuperCollider accepted into Debian unstable

2011-07-22 Thread Dan S
Hi all, Thanks to your supercollider ubuntu team, plus the kind people in debian-multimedia, there is now a SuperCollider debian package, available in the "unstable" (sid) repositories. If you're using debian-sid, please try out the packages! http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/supercollider (

[puredyne] [promo] Livecoding concerts: Paris (Sat 9th July) and Strasbourg (Mon 11th July)

2011-07-05 Thread Dan S
Hi all - Two livecoding concerts this weekend in France: Saturday in Paris and then Monday in Strasbourg. PERFORMANCES FEATURING: - Marije Baalman (NL) - Charlie Chocolate (NL) ((Strasbourg only)) - Michele Pasin (IT/UK) - MCLD (UK) PARIS, Sat 9th July: La

Re: [puredyne] 3d animation sw

2011-07-03 Thread Dan S
2011/7/3 Rob Myers : > On 03/07/11 11:52, Andy Farnell wrote: >> >> Blender is the main one. >> Long learning curve though. > > There are lots of tutorials: > > http://www.blender.org/education-help/tutorials/ > > Including some for toon shading. > >> Is there an extension to Inkscape >> to make it

[puredyne] 3d animation sw

2011-07-03 Thread Dan S
Hi, Naive question since I'm an audio kind of person... is there decent free software for 3D animations? I'm thinking of cartoony rather than raytracey. What do/would you use? Thanks Dan -- http://www.mcld.co.uk --- Puredyne@goto10.org http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyn

Re: [puredyne] server down?

2011-05-20 Thread Dan S
2011/5/20 grant centauri : > this might be old news, but puredyne.org seems to be down? down for me too. > i was going to test out gazpacho... i'm attempting to broth it. For what it's worth, I uploaded new alpha ISOs yesterday (alpha4). The rsync server is down too so you can't access them righ

Re: [puredyne] starting init crypto disks...fail to boot

2011-05-16 Thread Dan S
Well I'm afraid we never found a fix for this. It depends on the hardware, afaict - it affects my Eee fairly often. For what it's worth, I haven't seen this happening in the forthcoming gazpacho release - here's hoping... 2011/5/16 KarlHungus : > btw i am using 911-carrot_and_coriander-DVD-i386 in

Re: [puredyne] Gedit Supercollider mode

2011-05-15 Thread Dan S
2011/5/14 rosea grammostola : > On 05/13/2011 11:13 AM, rosea.grammostola wrote: >> >> On 05/13/2011 11:10 AM, Dan S wrote: >>> >>> 2011/5/13 rosea.grammostola: >>>> >>>> On 05/13/2011 10:44 AM, Dan S wrote: >>>>> >>>

Re: [puredyne] Gedit Supercollider mode

2011-05-13 Thread Dan S
2011/5/13 rosea.grammostola : > On 05/13/2011 10:44 AM, Dan S wrote: >> >> 2011/5/13 rosea.grammostola: >>> >>> On 05/13/2011 10:00 AM, KarlHungus wrote: >>>> >>>> that would be very handy indeed... >>>> >>>> --

Re: [puredyne] Gedit Supercollider mode

2011-05-13 Thread Dan S
2011/5/13 rosea.grammostola : > On 05/13/2011 10:00 AM, KarlHungus wrote: >> >> that would be very handy indeed... >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://puredyne.466513.n3.nabble.com/puredyne-Gedit-Supercollider-mode-tp2931414p2934711.html >> Sent from the Puredyne mailing list archiv

Re: [puredyne] boot cycle on puredyne-1010-gazpacho-CD-i386-alpha

2011-05-12 Thread Dan S
Hi, Thanks. Just pushed a hacky little hook which renames the image files (aymeric, your hook didn't seem to be in the bzr broth), which for me created a bootable ISO. Dan 2011/5/2 Aymeric Mansoux : > Dan S said : >> Hi, >> >> Just tried puredyne-1010-gazpacho-CD-i386

Re: [puredyne] Gazpacho wacom bamboo support

2011-05-12 Thread Dan S
Hi Grant - Yeah, debian live-build is interesting is it not? Gazpacho will be based on ubuntu maverick. Surprised that you've had wacom problems, mine have always worked OK on puredyne I think, but that's graphire not bamboo. Dan 2011/5/12 grant centauri : > Hello Puredyne. > > I've been delvi

Re: [puredyne] Puredyne Gazpacho coming soon!

2011-05-12 Thread Dan S
I started on a simple deb package for MotionTrackOSC, very simple stab in the dark. If Marije has time to try them (or in fact anyone who actually uses MotionTrackOSC! and therefore can test it properly) that would be handy Dan 2011/5/11 KarlHungus : > +1 for MotionTrackOSC, it would be so nice

[puredyne] updated: How to Broth

2011-05-12 Thread Dan S
Hi all, I updated the "How to broth" page a bit, for building a custom live-distro based on puredyne. Any feedback/edits welcome (might be using this info in a workshop sometime soon...) http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Puredyne/How_to_broth Dan -- http://www.mcld.co.uk --- Puredyne@goto10.org http:

[puredyne] boot cycle on puredyne-1010-gazpacho-CD-i386-alpha

2011-05-01 Thread Dan S
Hi, Just tried puredyne-1010-gazpacho-CD-i386-alpha.iso. It has a later datestamp than -alpha2 on the rsync which is why I used that one, but am I wrong? I tried the CD in two laptops - on both of them the nice grub screen appeared, but selecting any option (or waiting for the timeout) simply imm

Re: [puredyne] german translation

2011-04-27 Thread Dan S
Great, thanks! I wish I was better at German so I could actually appreciate what you've done ;) Dan 2011/4/25 chr : > hello puredyne-list, > > before a couple of weeks i organised in our art-academie in munich (i'm > student there) a symposium about floss, open content etc. > http://opensourceday

Re: [puredyne] Wireless config MacBookPro5,5

2011-04-10 Thread Dan S
Hi - Tried this? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro5-5/Karmic#Wireless%20%28AirPort%29 Dan 2011/4/10 andrewakko : > hej guys, > Im having a problem to config my net. Specifically, the system dont find my > driver for the new mac osx, > I get only: > > lo > eth0 > > and no other interfa

Re: [puredyne] pd-extended + gridflow

2011-03-20 Thread Dan S
2011/3/20 James Harkins : > Suggestion for the future: could the gridflow package be updated so that it > will install itself into pd-extended if available? > > It neatly installs itself into /usr/lib/pd/extra, where it's invisible to > pd-extended. > > http://gridflow.ca/ links to this package i

Re: [puredyne] Puredyne Gazpacho coming soon!

2011-02-03 Thread Dan S
2011/2/3 nescivi : > Hiho, > > On Wednesday 02 February 2011 12:46:53 Aymeric Mansoux wrote: >> nescivi said : >> > On Tuesday 01 February 2011 08:00:06 Aymeric Mansoux wrote: >> > > Manjunan Gnanaratnam said : >> > > > Hello >> > > > >> > > > 1. Any chance of getting Marije Baalman's recommendatio

Re: [puredyne] Puredyne Gazpacho coming soon!

2011-01-31 Thread Dan S
H well that's actually a couple of ugens plus some class code too, it's a new set of stuff (still in alpha) - do you use it? Interesting to know. It's fairly recent but if people are already doing cool things with it, might be worth thinking about... Dan 2011/1/29 Igor Medeiros : > i don

Re: [puredyne] Newbie questions

2011-01-03 Thread Dan S
Hi Axel (or John?) - 2011/1/3 John Schmitt : > Hi list, > > after years and years of music making on Windows and MacOS I'm ready to try > it on Linux, mainly because Apple is starting to annoy me as much as > Microsoft did before I switched. Yeah I know - I was on Apple for years, but I'm really

Re: [puredyne] eta new version?

2010-12-07 Thread Dan S
2010/12/7 Aymeric Mansoux : > David Griffiths said : >> I just wondered when you'd like to get the new version of puredyne done >> - i.e. what my deadline is for getting fluxus builds on the PPA... > > I was planning to work on it sometimes in January and get the alpha to a > final stage (or near f

Re: [puredyne] metapackages

2010-11-14 Thread Dan S
2010/11/14 rosea.grammostola : > On 11/14/2010 12:58 PM, Dan S wrote: >> >> Good point - I don't think there are any metapackages (others might >> correct me). That would be rather handy for ubuntu folks who want the >> very cool stuff. >> >> I'

Re: [puredyne] Package Manager issue!

2010-11-14 Thread Dan S
I agree, I'm on an eee 701 as well and I gig with it, love it 2010/11/13 geoffroy tremblay : > eee netbook run really nicely with puredyne - I have the original (701) and > it work like a charm, really smooth and crisp (video playback is killer and > the small for factor makes it a charm to carry

Re: [puredyne] metapackages

2010-11-14 Thread Dan S
Good point - I don't think there are any metapackages (others might correct me). That would be rather handy for ubuntu folks who want the very cool stuff. I'm not going to have any time to look into it but - anyone want to contribute a metapackage? Either for 9.11 (since it's stable) or 10.10... I

Re: [puredyne] next release, based on 10.04 or 10.10?

2010-11-14 Thread Dan S
2010/11/13 rosea.grammostola : > On 11/13/2010 12:45 PM, gusano wrote: >> >> On 11/13/10 12:11, rosea.grammostola wrote: >>> >>> On 11/13/2010 12:05 PM, gusano wrote: On 11/13/10 11:25, rosea.grammostola wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm waiting for the 10.04 based release, but will

Re: [puredyne] Serious advice on compatible USB Audio Interface.

2010-11-02 Thread Dan S
I use m-audio fasttrack pro for all my gigs, works fine no problems, pretty low latency. I don't know if it's the same insides as the non-pro one... Dan 2010/11/2 grant centauri : > I've been trying to get the M-AUDIO Fast-Track to work myself and keep > getting X-runs that shut everything down.

Re: [puredyne] bouilloncube + 10.10 alpha not working here

2010-10-26 Thread Dan S
2010/10/26 keithpeter : > > > DanS wrote: >> >> Hi - >> >> I'm still unable to get the alpha to boot on this pd USB here. (Using >> the rsync'ed CD iso.) Scratching my head here. (No optical drive so I >> can't test the same machine with a cd or dvd.) Anything seem >> suspicious in this output?: >>

Re: [puredyne] Audio Preview

2010-10-25 Thread Dan S
Hi - looks like it doesn't exist in Thunar (the xfce equivalent of Nautilus), though the "thunar-thumbnailers" webpage says sometime "soon" they would like to add audio thumbnails. You could install Nautilus if you need that feature - that's all I can think of to suggest. It does sound like a nice

Re: [puredyne] adding folder to PATH permanently

2010-10-24 Thread Dan S
add this to your .zshrc: export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/bongoland 2010/10/24 enrike : > Hi > > sorry for such a general question but I need to add permanently a path to > PATH env variable. So far al method I tested do not really work. So I > thought maybe I should ask in Puredyne list because it is

[puredyne] bouilloncube + 10.10 alpha not working here

2010-10-23 Thread Dan S
Hi - I'm still unable to get the alpha to boot on this pd USB here. (Using the rsync'ed CD iso.) Scratching my head here. (No optical drive so I can't test the same machine with a cd or dvd.) Anything seem suspicious in this output?: $:~/dev/puredyne/bouilloncube/sh/grub2$ sudo ./make-live-device

Re: [puredyne] .bash_aliases question

2010-10-20 Thread Dan S
2010/10/20 Gunner Carstens : > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:14 AM, gusano wrote: >> hi >> for some reasons my .bash_aliases get lost. >> I have to: >> $ . ~/.bash_aliases >> each time I open a new term to have them. >> >> what obvious thing am I missing ? > perhaps > if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then >

Re: [puredyne] intel imac not booting live cd?

2010-10-16 Thread Dan S
We just tried on a mac here which is showing the same reluctance. (Can't boot puredyne 9.11 dvd edition, just gives us a flashing cursor and nothing more.) It's NOT a password-protected EFI, and resetting the PRAM doesn't help. Low on ideas so far... Dan 2010/10/14 Dan S : >

Re: [puredyne] intel imac not booting live cd?

2010-10-14 Thread Dan S
How are you trying to boot them? Are you holding the C button down Those systems look very similar to me too. The EFI on one of them may have password-protection enabled, which according to this article prevents boot from cd/dvd by holding C: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1352 That page also sugge

Re: [puredyne] xspect

2010-10-11 Thread Dan S
Yeah I like Sonic Visualiser a lot. Nice smooth interface, just remember to install some plugins for it to make it do fancy things. As it happens, it's mainly made by someone two doors down from me :) and I have contributed some patches, am doing more work with it these days. Dan 2010/10/11 Björ

Re: [puredyne] OT: personal observations and ideas regarding pure:dyne

2010-10-10 Thread Dan S
2010/10/9 geoffroy tremblay : > I hear you - I am lost in the mountain of canada here This thread has given me a lovely mental image of you all sitting solo in far-flung deserts/mountains, which feels quite attractive when one is in the squashed-up-close London setting :) All this talk about the

Re: [puredyne] Serious advice on compatible USB Audio Interface.

2010-10-08 Thread Dan S
I have the M-Audio FastTrack Pro and that doesn't need external drivers. In general, if there are linux drivers offered then I'd be suspicious! Much better if the things Ailo mentions support it natively. Ailo: on my fasttrack pro I've always had the issue that it presents as two separate devices,

Re: [puredyne] Why XFCE and not LXDE ?

2010-10-05 Thread Dan S
2010/10/5 jaromil : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > hi Lukasz, > > On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 04:00:23PM +0200, Lukasz Jastrzebski wrote: > >> Could you guys wash your laundry more privy? :P Lower your blood >> pressure, raise glucose level. You all have been doing a terrific >

Re: [puredyne] Next pure:dyne will be free? Re: low volume

2010-10-05 Thread Dan S
2010/10/5 jaromil : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > > re all, > > On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 01:52:35PM +0200, Aymeric Mansoux wrote: > >> The position of the FSF, RMS and co are much needed to balance the >> other side of the spectrum. No doubt. But it could be more >> encoura

Re: [puredyne] pitch detection : a guitar to midi tool

2010-10-05 Thread Dan S
Hi - In SuperCollider there's the Pitch.kr ugen which is a straightforward pitch-detector. I used it to make a hacky guitar tutor thing at a recent hackday - code and video here :) http://wiki.musichackday.org/index.php?title=BumbleTab Dan 2010/10/5 Olivier Revollat : > Hello everybody ! I am l

Re: [puredyne] Why XFCE and not LXDE ?

2010-10-05 Thread Dan S
2010/10/5 jaromil : > >> > I guess that was the factors that pushed p:d devs to use XFCE as a >> > default environment in the not-so-distant past, and some of those >> > are still vital nowadays. >> >> Yup :) > > don't you guys remember we had XFCE on dyne:bolic already? But Lukasz said dyne:bolic

Re: [puredyne] the rt-kernel

2010-09-29 Thread Dan S
You can access it forum-style at http://puredyne.org/support.html HTH Dan 2010/9/29 CAD Outsourcing : > Is it possible to log into the forum and see these threads and not receive > all these emails? > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 17:14, ailo wrote: >> >>  It seems that the maintainer of Ubuntu's rt

Re: [puredyne] [OT maybe] p:d won't boot anymore, stuck on grub

2010-09-19 Thread Dan S
2010/9/19 gusano : > On 09/19/10 18:12, alejo wrote: >> >> eia gusano, good to read your hours of hard troubleshooting got paid back! >> >> On Sep 19, 2010, at 5:46 PM, gusano wrote: >>> >>> (for the record) >>> I got it working again using supergrub2disk =) >>> thanks claude and dspstv !! >> >> do

[puredyne] virtual console mirror to external display

2010-08-22 Thread Dan S
Hi - I'm not sure that this is possible: anyone know how to get the virtual console to be displayed on the external display as well as on the internal one? In other words: I want to NOT use X, but to get the virtual console (accessed e.g. by Ctrl+Alt+F1) to appear on my laptop's screen (as it norm

[puredyne] Fwd: CFP: Ircam Musical Research Residency 2011-2012

2010-08-02 Thread Dan S
(Apologies for cross-postings) (Do not hesitate to forward to interested colleagues and students) (French version below) *Call for Projects 2011-2012: Musical Research Residency Program* * * * /Submission Deadline/: September 30, 2010 /Details and submission procedure: /* /http://www.ircam.fr/875.

[puredyne] Fwd: SuperCollider 3.4 released

2010-07-19 Thread Dan S
Hi all, FYI, SuperCollider 3.4 is out, is spiffing and is in the puredyne repository :) -- Forwarded message -- From: Dan Stowell Date: 2010/7/15 Subject: SuperCollider 3.4 released To: SuperCollider users mailing list Hi all - The new 3.4 version of SuperCollider is now avail

Re: [puredyne] version of puredyne

2010-07-11 Thread Dan S
The latest is based on karmic; yes, we're planning on a lucid version, we're (gradually) updating all the packages for lucid (and maverick...) as we go Best Dan 2010/7/11 Stefan Thomas : > Dear community, > I want to ask You, if the actual version of puredyne is based on Ubuntu > lucid lynx or n

Re: [puredyne] Puredyne and Open Source Dance

2010-06-27 Thread Dan S
2010/6/27 nescivi : > Hiho, > > interesting topic! > > I've been doing two projects with dance, the last one I ran completely from a > Linux machine, using "motiontrackosc" for tracking the positions of the > dancers on stage, and then SuperCollider for most other things. > > I think that MotionTra

[puredyne] Fwd: [Openlab] PikselSavers - Call for Entries

2010-06-17 Thread Dan S
-- Forwarded message -- From: h220 Date: 2010/6/17 Subject: [Openlab] PikselSavers - Call for Entries To: p...@piksel.no, eyeca...@yahoogroups.com, openlab , pimat...@yahoogroups.com, Syndicate E-list , unxpo...@yahoogroups.com, cinele...@skolelinux.no ■■ PikselSavers - Screensa

Re: [puredyne] Lost the Panel on reboot

2010-06-13 Thread Dan S
Hi - On a 9.11 stick I right-clicked on the panel, chose "Customise panel" (this is the option you're referring to, I think?) and changed it so it was at the top of the screen rather than the bottom, and a bit narrower. Then I rebooted and... the panel was fine, it was just how I had customised it

Re: [puredyne] bash again

2010-06-04 Thread Dan S
2010/6/4 enrike : > hi > > cat /usr/share/bouilloncube/sh/grub2/grub.cfg.in Output the contents of this file (a template for grub.cfg) to... > | ...send its contents into... > sed -e 's/\${BLKID}/'${BLKID}'/g' ...a command which replaces all occurrences of ${BLKID} with the actual value of BLK

Re: [puredyne] navigating post window scvim

2010-06-04 Thread Dan S
It's NOT a vim window. It's a terminal window. The way it works is that the sclang program is executed in a shell "of your choice", which by default is "xterm -e". You can change this by setting the global option g:sclangTerm in vim. Normally that option is some terminal emulator, so you might hav

Re: [puredyne] where do I find some 'general' info about puredyne

2010-06-03 Thread Dan S
Hi - 2010/6/3 jurgen : > Hi, > > I tested Puredyne with the liveDVD and as Jack was working AND I could dim my > laptop's monitor I installed Puredyne permanently this morning. I think this > was a pretty good move. > Before I was looking into AV Linux which is also very nice but since they > t

Re: [puredyne] navigating post window scvim

2010-06-03 Thread Dan S
It's a standard terminal window, so you navigate it the same way (func + arrow keys for example). Dan 2010/6/2 bryan eubanks : > hi, > anyone know how to navigate the sclangpipe_app window in scvim? I can't move > around it, so I can't see the complete error report... > > thanks, > bryan > > ---

Re: [puredyne] packages for ipod?

2010-05-19 Thread Dan S
If I remember rightly, you can't use a mac-formatted ipod but need a mac+win-able ipod (meaning fat32). This is remembered from a few years back so I could easily be wrong, someone please correct me... Dan 2010/5/19 James Harkins : > I was hoping to use a 160GB ipod classic as a music lib and ex

Re: [puredyne] error message at startup

2010-05-13 Thread Dan S
Hi - It's no problem. There is a file in that location, which gets installed by some component from upstream (i.e. from some repository that's not directly puredyne), but it's actually a softlink. During startup, udev reads all the files in that folder, but it can't handle softlinks, so it reports

Re: [puredyne] PPoE issues

2010-05-04 Thread Dan S
Hi - Yes it's "normal", it's due to a slightly misbehaved package (i.e. it's not our fault ;) - it causes no danger at all, though it would be neater if we didn't get that message showing, since it can be offputting... Dan 2010/4/30 Rodrigo Chamusca : > I want to point out a message that appears

Re: [puredyne] installing openoffice?

2010-04-15 Thread Dan S
The other replies are correct (IMO) - openoffice is available directly from ubuntu repositories (using synaptic GUI, or apt-get CLI, for example) so that's better than downloading a .deb manually. But that's not what caused your error: > zsh: no matches found: openoffice.org*.deb This is nothing

Re: [puredyne] Puredyne 9.11 (Carrot and Coriander+) - new release of realtime audio+video distro

2010-04-06 Thread Dan S
ing to reinstall. Dan 2010/4/6 altern : > so a fresh new install is recommended? > > enrike > > ar., 2010.eko apiren 06a 08:13(e)an, Dan S(e)k idatzi zuen: >> >> no problem asking! synaptic update would update a lot of the packages, >> but it wouldn't include t

Re: [puredyne] Puredyne 9.11 (Carrot and Coriander+) - new release of realtime audio+video distro

2010-04-05 Thread Dan S
config we created for 9.11 Dan 2010/4/6 geoffroy tremblay : > sorry for the low level question here - but going trough the synaptic update > will the whole system be upgraded to 9.11 ? or will it need re-install ? > > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Dan S wrote: >> >> [a

Re: [puredyne] jack fw issues (again)

2010-04-05 Thread Dan S
use the 'force version' option in synaptic to choose which jack to install 2010/4/5 gusano : > hi > > I installed the newer jack version from Dan and it gave me even more xruns. > now I added ffado-debus-server and it looks a bit better, but it's still not > useable. > (I get xruns as soon as my c

[puredyne] updated jack (jack2/jackdmp) available for testing in puredyne

2010-04-04 Thread Dan S
Hi - The JACK project provides the professional low-latency audio infrastructure for all our loveliest audio apps. The "stable" version of JACK is now actually quite old and a re-implemented version (called jack2 or jackdmp) has been available for a while. It has advantages like multicore support

Re: [puredyne] jack fw issues (again)

2010-04-04 Thread Dan S
OK, well if you still have patience (!) then I have another suggestion! I'm about to send a mail to the list about an updated version of jack. I don't have firewire so I have no way of knowing if it fixes your problems but it includes a package called jack-firewire which provides fw backends. In

Re: [puredyne] Search and Muse on Pure:Dyne?

2010-04-02 Thread Dan S
2010/4/2 Aymeric Mansoux : > Claude Heiland-Allen said : >> >Question 1: how does one perform a search on Pure:Dyne/Xfce? I haven't >> >discovered a search facility for Xfce so far. SearchMonkey works well but >> >crashes frequently and one can't open a folder within it (it doesn't like >> >spaces

[puredyne] physical shape of pd keys

2010-04-02 Thread Dan S
Hi - Just trying my shiny puredyne USB key, I've been having problems on my Eee. I realise it's due to the physical shape of the key - it's so tiny that it doesn't have a "shoulder" to ensure it's sitting in the USB socket at 90º, and the spring action in the USB socket pushes it slightly off, mak

[puredyne] Puredyne 9.11 (Carrot and Coriander+) - new release of realtime audio+video distro

2010-04-02 Thread Dan S
[apologies for cross-posting, please forward this] Announcing the new release of Puredyne: Puredyne 9.11 - Carrot and Coriander + -- Puredyne is a GNU/Linux live distribution aimed at creative people, looking for tools outside the standard. It provides the bes

Re: [puredyne] software recommendation

2010-04-01 Thread Dan S
you've found it! you can also file a tracker issue if you like - https://bugs.launchpad.net/puredyne-live - not just for "bugs" but also feature requests. dan 2010/4/1 geoffroy tremblay : > is there a place to recommend software to be added to puredyne ? > --- > Puredyne@goto10.org > http://iden

Re: [puredyne] jack fw issues (again)

2010-04-01 Thread Dan S
Hi - I don't have firewire kit to test, I'm afraid, but maybe you could try running the "latencytop" program (not installed by default, but available in the repos) to detect the source of the xruns? It could be a question of IRQ priorities I imagine. Dan 2010/4/1 gusano > > hi > > Maybe I was

Re: [puredyne] news from pixelache sprint

2010-03-25 Thread Dan S
2010/3/25 altern : > az., 2010.eko marren 24a 19:36(e)an, Aymeric Mansoux(e)k idatzi zuen: >> >> altern said : I would say the most important now would be this language/locales selector as we are still fiddling around the other scripts and there might be quite some changes >

Re: [puredyne] What should be in basic puredyne help?

2010-03-23 Thread Dan S
uch "dumb" things... > hope this is not to much off the mark dan. > /a > > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Josh Lawrence > wrote: >> >> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Dan S >> wrote: >> > It'll be a single short HTML page, and c

[puredyne] What should be in basic puredyne help?

2010-03-22 Thread Dan S
Hi all - Working on polishing puredyne. In the main menu there's a "Help" item but it goes straight to "Xfce 4.4 Documentation" which is totally baffling for someone who was hoping to find help on puredyne. So what should be shown on a *main* puredyne help bundled with the OS? It'll be a single

Re: [puredyne] nabble web interface activated for puredyne@goto10.org

2010-03-22 Thread Dan S
e to create a new login and password to use it ? > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:45 AM, Dan S > wrote: >> >> Hi all - >> >> We've enabled "nabble" on our community mailing list, which is a >> service that provides a kind of archive but also a foru

[puredyne] nabble web interface activated for puredyne@goto10.org

2010-03-22 Thread Dan S
Hi all - We've enabled "nabble" on our community mailing list, which is a service that provides a kind of archive but also a forum-style interface for people who like forums better than mailing lists: http://n3.nabble.com/Puredyne-f466513.html Best Dan -- http://www.mcld.co.uk --- Puredyne@goto

Re: [puredyne] remap caps lock on virtual console

2010-03-07 Thread Dan S
2010/3/6 Wirt Wolff : > Excerpts from Dan S's message of Sat Mar 06 11:28:37 -0700 2010: >> >> I'm using xmodmap to remap caps-lock as f6 (since that executes a line >> in scvim), working nicely in x-session windows. >> >> But in the virtual console, x stuff doesn't apply. Anyone know how I >> can

[puredyne] remap caps lock on virtual console

2010-03-06 Thread Dan S
Hi - I'm using xmodmap to remap caps-lock as f6 (since that executes a line in scvim), working nicely in x-session windows. But in the virtual console, x stuff doesn't apply. Anyone know how I can do the same thing there? Thanks Dan -- http://www.mcld.co.uk --- Puredyne@goto10.org http://ident

Re: [puredyne] puredyne ppa

2010-03-02 Thread Dan S
Hi - If you're using puredyne, nothing needs to be added - the default set in Puredyne 9.10 include our stuff as well as ubuntu, medibuntu etc. Best Dan 2010/3/2 bryan eubanks : > new user, wondering what, in any, PPA's need to be added to my software > sources on Puredyne 9.10? > > thanks! > >

Re: [puredyne] new install questions

2010-02-28 Thread Dan S
libpixman-1.so.0.14.0zsh: abort  amsynth > > > I'm not sure if this would help solve the problem, is it a bug that should > be reported? > > -grant > > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Dan S > wrote: >> >> Hi bryan - >> >> 2010/2/27 bry

Re: [puredyne] new install questions

2010-02-27 Thread Dan S
Hi bryan - 2010/2/27 bryan eubanks : > using puredyne off of bootstick i made with unetbootin. doing both of these > on a eee pc 900ha and having a few problems and some general questions. i > hope they can be answered here before i do a full install. > Pd exhibits some audio problems, sounds okay

Re: [puredyne] OT: Erasing Disk Drive and Installing WinXP both via PD USB?

2010-02-21 Thread Dan S
2010/2/21 James Harkins : > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 8:57 PM, wrote: >> >> (By the way, when I press the ctrl + A keys to Select All, it doesn't work >> [i.e., in Firefox or GEdit]). > > Yeah, this ticks me off too. It's because "emacs bindings" are enabled in > apps other than emacs. > > I found a

Re: [puredyne] The Puredyne Book - new puredyne documentation

2010-02-21 Thread Dan S
2010/2/21 alejo : > ei Dan and all. > > > On Feb 20, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Dan S wrote: >> >> So the new documentation is here (please feel very welcome to >> contribute! Be Bold): >> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Puredyne > > > looks good and seem

[puredyne] The Puredyne Book - new puredyne documentation

2010-02-20 Thread Dan S
Hi all - We decided to try Wikibooks for the new puredyne manual. Thanks to those (james, alejo, etc) who have contributed howtos on-list, we've merged them in, copied across some of the old documentation etc. So the new documentation is here (please feel very welcome to contribute! Be Bold): htt

[puredyne] hasciicam dasciicam

2010-02-19 Thread Dan S
Hi - hasciicam is great but it doesn't work on my Eee cos it uses the old v4l1 API rather than the newer v4l2 API. I made a simple program called "dasciicam" which renders the webcam as ascii art. It's in my ppa: https://launchpad.net/~danstowell/+archive/ppa (It doesn't do the nice streaming stu

Re: [puredyne] OT: is dynebolic dead?

2010-02-18 Thread Dan S
hi jaromil, thanks for the message. i heard you on resonance fm the other day too :) just a reply on this bit: > meanwhile i'm personally recommending pure:dyne for people that have > new hardware. i just hope you removed UbuntuOne and other non-free > parts from it? sorry but i still di

Re: [puredyne] MiniHowTo Broth + some questions

2010-02-12 Thread Dan S
Alejo, Thanks for this. A couple of responses: 2010/2/7 alejo : > 4. dont be fooled by the way the process finishes: > > P: Begin unmounting filesystems... > > soup is ready! (that was the message i was expecting to see:), the image > will be waiting for you in: > ../puredyne-build-i386/  as bina

Re: [puredyne] ubuntu live-cd dev

2010-02-12 Thread Dan S
2010/2/12 rosea grammostola : > Josh Lawrence wrote: >> >> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:15 PM, rosea grammostola >> wrote: >> >>> >>> I saw puredyne is based on Ubuntu now. May I ask what tool you guys use >>> for >>> building the live iso? >>> >>> For debian I use live-helper which is a great tool.

Re: [puredyne] ubuntu -> pure:dyne?

2010-02-12 Thread Dan S
No that's fine, we also use medibuntu Dan 2010/2/12 Max : > cool, that works. > > what about interferences with the medibuntu repos? is that ok or a bad idea > to use pure:dyne and medibuntu together? > > thanks, m. > > Am 12.02.2010 um 19:40 schrieb Dan S: > &

Re: [puredyne] ubuntu -> pure:dyne?

2010-02-12 Thread Dan S
/DocInstallSystem#Installingpuredyneasmainsystem > and it suggests: > > # GOTO10 Debian repository > deb http://debian.goto10.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free > deb-src http://debian.goto10.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free > > that doesn't look right. > > > Am

Re: [puredyne] ubuntu -> pure:dyne?

2010-02-12 Thread Dan S
Yep, exactly right. Latest puredyne is based on ubuntu karmic, so the repos contains packages mainly for karmicish flavours Dan 2010/2/12 Max : > hi, > > can i convert an ubuntu installation by simply adding the puredyne repos? > the wiki assumes a debian installation, but that's for the old ver

Re: [puredyne] broth

2010-02-06 Thread Dan S
2010/2/6 alejo : > -how can i know if a package is available for broth? lets say i will like to > have ngircd added to the: > > #include > > is it as simple as adding it to the listings under IRC, like?: > > # IRC > irssi > ngircd > > this means, that anything that is in the repos will be availabl

Re: [puredyne] some initial questions

2010-02-06 Thread Dan S
2010/2/5 James Harkins : > Overall, so far I'm enjoying this distro. I'm an avid supercollider user (Hi > Dan, nescivi, krgn!) and it's a pleasure to see it "just work" > out-of-the-box. Hi James :) > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Lukasz Jastrzebski > wrote: >> The make-live-device.sh script

[puredyne] Fwd: [sc-dev] LoMus 2010

2010-02-05 Thread Dan S
puredyne fits this call? Dan -- Forwarded message -- From: Thierry Coduys Date: 2010/2/5 Subject: [sc-dev] LoMus 2010 To: sc-...@lists.bham.ac.uk LoMus 2010 À la recherche des logiciels libres pour la création sonore et intermedia Pour sa troisième édition, Lomus 2010 s’ad

Re: [puredyne] liveHD and grub2

2010-02-02 Thread Dan S
2010/2/2 Thomas Vriet : > hi again > > how to modify grub2 config file in order to boot a /live folder that was > copied on a partition ? > with grub2, this doc doesn't work obvisouly : > http://code.goto10.org/projects/puredyne/wiki/liveHDInstall-pd-lin > > I noticed the grub menu was now /boot/gr

Re: [puredyne] odd situation

2010-02-02 Thread Dan S
2010/2/2 Karsten Gebbert : > grant centauri said : >> Well, unfortunately I wasn't able to figure out how to boot from USB on my >> other machine either, I tried various settings in the BIOS for using my SD >> card, but I never did get a boot from it.  So either it isn't working >> correctly >> (c

Re: [puredyne] odd situation

2010-02-01 Thread Dan S
I was on a machine which was too old to allow usb boot - someone mentioned that it's possible to use a CD+USB in combination (i.e. the computer boots the CD, but the CD's bootloader then chooses to load the USB OS). didn't try it though Dan 2010/2/1 grant centauri : > hello, > > i've been having

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