Re: [RDD] Trying to get Rivendell on Xbuntu 12.04, unable to connect to MySQL?

2013-05-15 Thread Geoff Barkman
Did you follow Albans instructions for installing Rivendell from his Ubuntu packages or have you compiled your own Rivendell from Source? On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Finn wrote: > Greetings all, > I'm trying to get Rivendell on a new Xubuntu 12.04 install, but it's > having trouble seeing

Re: [RDD] Touch Laptop

2013-05-15 Thread Larry Owen
Looks like the vivobook works out of the box, at least in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HHEquvh7KI On 05/15/2013 07:38 PM, Fred Gleason wrote: > On May 15, 2013, at 10:25 03, Andy Sayler wrote: > >> The newer linux kernels tend to support most of the touch screen chips >> floati

Re: [RDD] Touch Laptop

2013-05-15 Thread Andy Sayler
Linux touch support has drastically improved in the last 2 or 3 Linux kernel releases (i.e. 3.5+). The combination of the upstreaming the Android-device drivers and the sudden explosion of touch-capable Windows 8 laptops has really driven the situation to a much better place than it was at even 6 m

Re: [RDD] Touch Laptop

2013-05-15 Thread Brian
What about using the stock OS on these fancy new multi-touch machines, with VNC into a Rivendell system? Anyone have experience with that and can speak to how well it works? Brian On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Fred Gleason wrote: > On May 15, 2013, at 10:25 03, Andy Sayler wrote: > > > The

[RDD] Trying to get Rivendell on Xbuntu 12.04, unable to connect to MySQL?

2013-05-15 Thread Finn
Greetings all, I'm trying to get Rivendell on a new Xubuntu 12.04 install, but it's having trouble seeing my MySQL server. I made a mysql user and table, set it up in /etc/rd.conf, then I run rdadmin it says that the database is not setup correctly, and asks for an administrative account in MySQL.

Re: [RDD] Touch Laptop

2013-05-15 Thread Fred Gleason
On May 15, 2013, at 10:25 03, Andy Sayler wrote: > The newer linux kernels tend to support most of the touch screen chips > floating around on the market. FWIW, this has not been my experience at all. For every setup that has worked 'out of the box', I've heard of (and all too often, been inv

Re: [RDD] Touch Laptop

2013-05-15 Thread Brian McKelvey
Right... I was thinking the live CDs with rivendell on them are pretty old at this point and wouldn't have the touch drivers But I guess you don't need rivendell for the touchscreen test, so a shiny new one from any major distro would suffice just fine. Next problem... Running a LiveCD with

Re: [RDD] Touch Laptop

2013-05-15 Thread Brian McKelvey
It's also unlikely that the live cd will have pre built drivers for whatever the touch surface is. Brian Sent from my iPhone On May 15, 2013, at 6:42 AM, Alan Peterson wrote: > From: "Cowboy" > Find one somewhere you can play with for a minute. ( Best Buy, whatever ). > Boot up a LiveCD and

Re: [RDD] Timings

2013-05-15 Thread Brian McKelvey
Maybe there are tons of MySQL queries happening during the process, and the latency savings from being on the same machine as MySQL so the queries don't have to go over the network really adds up? Brian Sent from my iPhone On May 15, 2013, at 6:04 AM, Wayne Merricks wrote: > In theory yes,

Re: [RDD] Touch Laptop

2013-05-15 Thread Bob Reite
If you aren't going to turn it into a Linux box, you can get rid of "Metro" and make it look and work like Windows 7 by downloading and installing "Classic Shell". Classic Shell is free. On 5/15/13 9:34 AM, Cowboy wrote: > On Wednesday 15 May 2013 08:43:17 am Alan Peterson wrote: >> Seeing on t

Re: [RDD] Touch Laptop

2013-05-15 Thread Andy Sayler
I'm using the latest version of Ubuntu (13.04) with a Lenovo Carbon X1 Touch and everything worked just fine out of the box. The newer linux kernels tend to support most of the touch screen chips floating around on the market. Ubuntu also has built-in support for dealing with Secure Boot properly,

Re: [RDD] Touch Laptop

2013-05-15 Thread Rob Landry
On Wed, 15 May 2013, Alan Peterson wrote: > Seeing on the Tiger Direct website that they have an ASUS "Vivobook" > laptop (item A50-116407) for $399, tricked out pretty well: touchscreen, > 500GB drive, i3 proc, 4GB RAM and a few other shiny sparkly things. > > On the downside, it clocks at an

Re: [RDD] Touch Laptop

2013-05-15 Thread Alan Peterson
From: "Cowboy" >>> Find one somewhere you can play with for a minute. ( Best Buy, whatever ). Boot up a LiveCD and you should know very quickly. <<< Hahaha... I realize that's the only way to know for sure, but I may as well ask them for the keys to their alarm system, for all the good that'l

Re: [RDD] Touch Laptop

2013-05-15 Thread Cowboy
On Wednesday 15 May 2013 08:43:17 am Alan Peterson wrote: > Seeing on the Tiger Direct website that they have an ASUS "Vivobook" laptop > (item A50-116407) for $399, tricked out pretty well: touchscreen, 500GB > drive, i3 proc, 4GB RAM and a few other shiny sparkly things. > > On the downside, i

Re: [RDD] Timings

2013-05-15 Thread Wayne Merricks
In theory yes, I generate my logs on a server that houses the MySQL database and NFS shares. It doesn't do any playout and is CPU idle most of the time. We don't have any particularly complicated rules but we do have about 10,000 carts. Standard generation time is about 2minutes on a random

Re: [RDD] Touch Laptop

2013-05-15 Thread Nathan Steele
Getting the touchscreen to work could be tricky, did some work at a station that thought they were going to use nice new HP 21" multitouch monitors with RD, never got the touch to work. Might be possible if your better with compiling from source and what not, but anyway, hardware compatibility

Re: [RDD] Timings

2013-05-15 Thread Alan Peterson
Does it make a difference if the log is being generated on the same machine handling the playout? I would think with that much brainpower being devoted to uninterrupted play, log generation happens in those little moments when RDAirplay is catching its breath. Would it be any faster if a log is

[RDD] Touch Laptop

2013-05-15 Thread Alan Peterson
Seeing on the Tiger Direct website that they have an ASUS "Vivobook" laptop (item A50-116407) for $399, tricked out pretty well: touchscreen, 500GB drive, i3 proc, 4GB RAM and a few other shiny sparkly things. On the downside, it clocks at an unimpressive 1.8 GHz and comes with (ew...) Win8. H

Re: [RDD] icon doesn't work on raabuntu installation...

2013-05-15 Thread sascha
Am 2013-05-15 00:05, schrieb John Anderson: > found the executable but it won't start...any reason that Rd Library > won't start..but the add function works in rdairplay? Try to start rdlibrary from a terminal window (commandline) maybe it will give you an error message. /sascha _