Re: [RDD] Initial installation experience with 3 Rivendell distros

2011-11-13 Thread Cowboy
On Sunday 13 November 2011 02:25:02 pm Rick wrote: > Ok this is interesting.  After cold-booting the system this time (1 day > later), the card is recognized. > 1) I originally reported this piece of info under item #3 in my report: > Audio Resources - Audio Adapters shows Card 0-7 as 'Not present

Re: [RDD] Initial installation experience with 3 Rivendell

2011-11-13 Thread Cowboy
On Sunday 13 November 2011 09:39:51 am ltynd...@cogeco.ca wrote: > Yes, I do agree that the way Ubuntu gets released and the changes that seem > to get made to releases, keeping up with the > latest version can be a pain. Why would anyone chase the "latest and greatest" unless they've drunk the

Re: [RDD] Initial installation experience with 3 Rivendell distros

2011-11-13 Thread Rick
From: Fred Gleason > No change after rebooting and checking everything above. Thank you for the info.  Now, could you please try the following: 1) Open up RDAdmin, click 'Manage Hosts', select the name of your system, click 'Edit' and then 'Audio Resources'.  Scroll down a bit to the section

Re: [RDD] Initial installation experience with 3 Rivendell

2011-11-13 Thread Rob Landry
On Sun, 13 Nov 2011, ltynd...@cogeco.ca wrote: > Yes, I do agree that the way Ubuntu gets released and the changes that > seem to get made to releases, keeping up with the latest version can be > a pain. > However for something like Rivendell you don't really want to or need to > be updating

Re: [RDD] Initial installation experience with 3 Rivendell

2011-11-13 Thread ltyndale
> > > I have to admit, while testing Rivendell on different distributions I've > > had frustrations with it to get audio to play. It can be a challenge at > > times. > > Ubuntu was a pain. Every six months they'd come out with a new version > that would throw me a different curve ball. Finally I sw

Re: [RDD] Initial installation experience with 3 Rivendell

2011-11-13 Thread Rob Landry
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011, ltynd...@cogeco.ca wrote: > I have to admit, while testing Rivendell on different distributions I've > had frustrations with it to get audio to play. It can be a challenge at > times. Ubuntu was a pain. Every six months they'd come out with a new version that would throw

Re: [RDD] Initial installation experience with 3 Rivendell distros

2011-11-12 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 11, 2011, at 17:15 28, Rick wrote: > No change after rebooting and checking everything above. Thank you for the info. Now, could you please try the following: 1) Open up RDAdmin, click 'Manage Hosts', select the name of your system, click 'Edit' and then 'Audio Resources'. Scroll down

Re: [RDD] Initial installation experience with 3 Rivendell distros

2011-11-11 Thread Cowboy
On Friday 11 November 2011 09:28:28 am Fred Gleason wrote: > > I'm slightly amazed Fred is even still sane... > > There are those who might question your basic premise here...  :) > Raising hand -- Cowboy http://cowboy.cwf1.com In India, "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase an

Re: [RDD] Initial installation experience with 3 Rivendell distros

2011-11-11 Thread Rick
From: Fred Gleason When you say 'available within Rivendell to "choose" as an option', do you mean in RDAlsaConfig? Also, could you please post the output of 'cat /proc/asound/cards'? Cheers! -- Hi Fred, Thank you (and everyone) for responding!  First, let me express a HU

Re: [RDD] Initial installation experience with 3 Rivendell distros

2011-11-11 Thread Jay Ashworth
Original Message - > From: "Fred Gleason" > On Nov 10, 2011, at 23:34 01, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > OSS, ALSA, ARTS, eSound, PulseAudio, Phonon, and at least 6 more I can't > > remember the names of at the moment, and it's very difficult for even a pro > > to be able to figure out what's s

Re: [RDD] Initial installation experience with 3 Rivendell

2011-11-11 Thread ltyndale
Hi, > 1) Don't make users fight so hard to simply recognize and utilize a sound > card!? For goodness sake, this software is > about playing audio!? > I have to admit, while testing Rivendell on different distributions I've had frustrations with it to get audio to play. It can be a challenge a

Re: [RDD] Initial installation experience with 3 Rivendell distros

2011-11-11 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 10, 2011, at 23:34 01, Jay Ashworth wrote: > OSS, ALSA, ARTS, eSound, PulseAudio, Phonon, and at least 6 more I can't > remember the names of at the moment, and it's very difficult for even a pro > to be able to figure out what's stacked atop what, and how to configure it. To be sure. No

Re: [RDD] Initial installation experience with 3 Rivendell distros

2011-11-11 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 10, 2011, at 23:09 31, Rick wrote: > Paravel's Rivendell did not automatically utilize the sound card, nor was it > available within Rivendell to "choose" as an option. When you say 'available within Rivendell to "choose" as an option', do you mean in RDAlsaConfig? Also, could you pleas

Re: [RDD] Initial installation experience with 3 Rivendell distros

2011-11-11 Thread Kevin Raper
On Nov 10, 2011, at 11:09 PM, Rick wrote: > The Operations Guide is excellent, but doesn't help a new user with the > *sequence* of how to set up their content, users, etc. Please consider a > short guide / tutorial to help a new user configure their Rivendell for the > first time. That woul

Re: [RDD] Initial installation experience with 3 Rivendell distros

2011-11-10 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Rick" > I am new to Rivendell and am trying to evaluate it for a local > community radio station I'm helping get started. [ ... ] > 1) Don't make users fight so hard to simply recognize and utilize a > sound card! For goodness sake, this software is about pla

Re: [RDD] Initial installation experience with 3 Rivendell distros

2011-11-10 Thread James Harrison
Good points imho. Perhaps it would be worth having an option for rdalsaconfig to best-guess and configure in one fell swoop as a command-line flag (ie something that could be called in initial install scripts) by just enabling all the cards at first. This would allow all package maintainers to

[RDD] Initial installation experience with 3 Rivendell distros

2011-11-10 Thread Rick
Hi all, I am new to Rivendell and am trying to evaluate it for a local community radio station I'm helping get started. I have a generic older home-built PC (gigabyte MB, 1.5 GB RAM, 300 GB HD, built-in sound card) I've used with various distros of Linux, and Windows.  Works fine.  The sound ca