Re: Ubuntu Studio 12.04.2 LTS Testing has started!

2013-02-18 Thread Fernando Gomes
Installed the amd64 version on a Toshiba Satellite R630-13U (Core i5, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD). No major problems, the install wizard didn't detect the wireless connection during installation, so I had to update after the installation done. I had a pop-up during the installation telling that there were

Re: Fernando's comment on Ubuntu Distro's where the Tascam US-122 worked out of the box

2011-01-14 Thread Fernando Gomes
> If you won't build a kernel and apps yourself you should switch to AV > Linux or Planet CCRMA etc. and avoid openArtist, Ubuntu Studio etc.. > Lurk Linux audio mailing lists ;). > I've already used AV Linux and Planet CCRMA before, but not after upgrading my PC, I'll try them soon on it :-) Fol

Re: Fernando's comment on Ubuntu Distro's where the Tascam US-122 worked out of the box

2011-01-12 Thread Fernando Gomes
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Mike Holstein wrote: > i am using abogani's kernels in both maverick and natty on a testing > machine, with great results... this is a nice guide i found when google-ing > 'ubuntu 10.10 realtime kernel' about the 6th result down... > http://jackschnippes.freeunix.n

Re: Fernando's comment on Ubuntu Distro's where the Tascam US-122 worked out of the box

2011-01-12 Thread Fernando Gomes
I commited the "error" of updating do Maverick to find out that there was no 'special' kernel to it ;-) I can tell you that using the standard Maverick Ubuntu Kernel i don't have many issues, using hydrogen, rackarack and zynaddsubfx, even with some processor hungry effects on rackarack.But today w

Re: Fernando's suggestions on the US-122

2011-01-10 Thread Fernando Gomes
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Casey Forslund wrote: > Thanks Fernando on your interest & comments: > > Your suggestion to run: "sudo ln -s /usr/share/alsa/firmware/usx2yloader > /lib/firmware/usx2yloader" is something I haven't tried... I'll do that and > see what happens, as it seems that I h

Re: Chiming in on the 'cheap-usb-audio-interface' conversation

2011-01-08 Thread Fernando Gomes
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Mike Holstein wrote: > On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Fernando Gomes wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> As I posted yesterday, I had a Tascam US122 until a week ago, and it >> worked flawlessly with every UbuntuStudio distributions I've

Re: Chiming in on the 'cheap-usb-audio-interface' conversation

2011-01-08 Thread Fernando Gomes
Hi As I posted yesterday, I had a Tascam US122 until a week ago, and it worked flawlessly with every UbuntuStudio distributions I've used (at least from 8,xx until the 10.xx). I had other problems with RT kernels and my hardware configuration, but not with the tascam. Unfortunatly I don't have it

Re: cheap usb-audio-interface

2011-01-07 Thread Fernando Gomes
I bought recently a Allen&Heath ZED10 mixer with USB interface, and it is a very nice mixer and audio interface - it has 4 mic inputs, two of them can be used as DI for guitars (high impedance inputs) and has an amazing routing capability. It costed me 177 EUR. It works perfectly with UbuntuStudio

Re: minimal distribution - maximum sound??

2010-12-18 Thread Fernando Gomes
Yes, Puppy Studio fly on any hardware! The problema as with other RT kernels is the compatibility, in my home studio PC the network fails after some time with Puppy. Their maintainers were quite helpfull, but the problem wasn't solved, so I went back to UbuntuStudio (now with the 10.10 without RT k

Re: Motherboard compatibility - AMD

2010-07-29 Thread Fernando Gomes
ds and normally they have frequent bios updates (this should also be true for MSI, but unfortunatly not with the one I'm using). The BIOS of my current MSI boards misses many setup options and features. Fernando On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-29 at

Re: Motherboard compatibility - AMD

2010-07-29 Thread Fernando Gomes
, > > nice to see that you have found a solution for your install. > > I'll keep your excellents tests infos for all the futur users. > > Thank's, > > Laurent > lprod.org > > Fernando Gomes wrote: > > I've used the article https://wiki.ubun

Re: Motherboard compatibility - AMD, Intel

2010-05-20 Thread Fernando Gomes
.1.0 20060810 May 2 18:59:11 homestudio kernel: [ 13.126611] pci :01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 May 2 18:59:11 homestudio kernel: [ 13.127471] [drm] Initialized via 2.11.1 20070202 for :01:00.0 on minor 0 May 2 18:59:11 homestudio kernel: [ 13.129642] agpgart

Re: Motherboard compatibility - AMD

2010-05-09 Thread Fernando Gomes
where the values are between 2.6% and 3% Fernando On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Fernando Gomes wrote: > Hi all and thanks for the tips. The problem seems to be solved (at > least until now) using the option acpi=off. I'm writing this message > on the rt kernel on the same machine t

Re: Motherboard compatibility - AMD

2010-05-08 Thread Fernando Gomes
Hi all and thanks for the tips. The problem seems to be solved (at least until now) using the option acpi=off. I'm writing this message on the rt kernel on the same machine that locked up only a few moments after booting, now it is working for about one hour, running jack, ZynAddSubFx, Rosegarden,

Re: Do I need to re-install to go from 10.04 beta to 10.04 stable

2010-04-30 Thread Fernando Gomes
An upgrade normally works well. With the 9.10 version upgrade (from beta to final) I had some issues, after the final version being released it detected it as a distribution upgrade, don't know why. Fernando On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Eric Hedekar wrote: > Doing an update will result in t

Re: Motherboard compatibility - AMD, Intel

2010-04-29 Thread Fernando Gomes
ses under GNU/Linux... > > If you still want to buy and Intel plateform, you should take a > motherboard from ASUS + Core2 Duo or better. > > The best quality/performances/price is AMD. > > Hope it helps, > > Laurent > lprod.org > > Le 26/04/2010 13:14, Fernando Gome

Motherboard compatibility - AMD, Intel

2010-04-26 Thread Fernando Gomes
Hello all! I've changed my system due to compatibility problems with ubuntustudio, but still have similar problems with the new one. Both have Athlon 64 x2 processors, one has a MSI motherboard, other an Elite motherboard. With the current 10.04 release (not final) I have also similar problems (it

Re: ubuntu studio on a netbook?

2009-12-24 Thread Fernando Gomes
Yes, the SSD might start to have problems earlier, and also the SSD writing speed is limited. But now most of the Netbooks have a standart HDD, so this might not be a problem, at least for the majority of the Netbook owners. I am curious about the processing capability to use as a home studio PC, b

Re: Re: recording vocals

2009-10-09 Thread Fernando Gomes
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:15 PM, wrote: > On Oct 9, 2009 11:05am, Fernando Gomes wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:25 PM, sandie san...@sandgreen.dk> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> Hi Teza and Sandie >> >> >> >> My PC doesn't even

Re: recording vocals

2009-10-09 Thread Fernando Gomes
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:25 PM, sandie wrote: > teza wrote: >> Hi ,Sandie, just a question, what will be your choice between Hardy and >> Jaunty 32 bits, for my point of view I will choose the Hardy, but I >> never use Jaunty 32 bits. Is there any troubles with rt kernel in >> Jaunty? >> Thanks fo

Re: recording vocals

2009-10-05 Thread Fernando Gomes
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:20 PM, wrote: > On Oct 5, 2009 12:51am, "Jason M. Christos" > wrote: >> what is good microphone in the $200 range to record vocals that is >> compatible with ubuntu studio? I would prefer to hear from someone who has >> actually used the combination to record vocals, tha

Re: recording vocals

2009-10-05 Thread Fernando Gomes
Hi Jason I'm using a M-Audio Nova mic (about $100), connected to the Tascam US-122 USB audio interface. I've recently added the Behringer MIC800 modeling preamp, but haven't made any real test with it. I like the sound with the M-Audio Nova + Tascam US122 combination the problem for me is that the

Re: Please help test UbuntuStudio 9.10 beta ISOs.

2009-10-04 Thread Fernando Gomes
Hi I was only today able to download the Ubuntustudio 9.10 beta to test it and found that the release being tested was not available to download anymore. I've downloaded the latest daily release and installed it. I put at the following address my first impressions: http://www.openstudio.info/ind

Re: Please help test UbuntuStudio 9.10 beta ISOs.

2009-09-30 Thread Fernando Gomes
Hi I'll be able to test the 9.10 beta during next weekend, I have a problem running ubuntustudio 9.04 so I'm using a custom built rt kernel (2.6.31 at this moment). I have a site where I collect some of my experiences and notes - It's more like my log book :-) - where I put some 'tricks' I made on

Re: Jaunty Real Time Kernel fails immediately

2009-05-07 Thread Fernando Gomes
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Fernando Gomes wrote: >> >>> I get this warning when I install the kernel and when I install some >>> other packages. It is related with nvidia-common, but I don't have any >>> nvidia hardware (chipset or graphic card) on t

Re: Jaunty Real Time Kernel fails immediately

2009-05-07 Thread Fernando Gomes
> >> I get this warning when I install the kernel and when I install some >> other packages. It is related with nvidia-common, but I don't have any >> nvidia hardware (chipset or graphic card) on this PC... Perhaps it can >> be solved removing some option on the kernel? >> > Just reinstall the fglr

Re: Jaunty Real Time Kernel fails immediately

2009-05-07 Thread Fernando Gomes
>> I have the same warning I get from Luke kernel related to nvidia in >> the postbuild script (that occurs also when I install new packeges >> using apt-get). I rebooted and it also worked well (seems similar to >> Luke kernel in the short tests I made, still didn't make any audio >> tests). >> >

Re: Jaunty Real Time Kernel fails immediately

2009-05-06 Thread Fernando Gomes
> > Sounds more like you've got the wrong driver set in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > I didn't make any nvidia specific changes. > > If you'd like to compile it, grab the source from kernel.org, apply > ingo's rt patch, and then set the preemption to "Complete" and the > Timer Freq to 1000Hz. > > --

Re: Away For Now...

2009-05-04 Thread Fernando Gomes
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Cory K. wrote: > I've recently stepped down from Studio involvement for now (I'll tinker > here and there) and have had some life changes that require me to be > away from my home. > > So to help me focus on what I have to do I'm disabling various lists I'm > on.

Re: Jaunty Real Time Kernel fails immediately

2009-05-03 Thread Fernando Gomes
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:57 PM, Gustin Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Luke MacNeil wrote: >> Indeed. I spend a lot of time tweaking audio packages for my own >> system. I'm sure you do to. If we can figure this out, we can probably >> be of substantial help

Re: Jaunty Real Time Kernel fails immediately

2009-04-28 Thread Fernando Gomes
>> >> Hello, mine fails immediately with ubuntustudio 9.04 (amd and i386) >> without any writes in the log files (I can boot from another ubuntu >> setup on the same pc and mount the ubuntustudio 9.04 partition to >> explore the log files).  Standard ubuntu 9.04 works very well, but if >> I install

Re: Jaunty Real Time Kernel fails immediately

2009-04-27 Thread Fernando Gomes
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Kjel Anderson wrote: > Susan, > > I updated your bug report. There was someone in IRC who was having the > same problem. Do you know what motherboard you have? This fellow on > IRC and I had the exact same model. > Hello, mine fails immediately with ubuntustudio 9

Re: Jaunty RT testing

2009-04-19 Thread Fernando Gomes
Hi, I'm running ubuntustudio 8.04 and today I tried to install a second boot with Jaunty. The normal Jaunty setup works well, not a problem detected (didn't test it much, only used the normal office internet applications and they were running well with the standard kernel)). Then I installed the ub

Re: Rosegargen + Fluidsynth - no sound while recording

2009-03-30 Thread Fernando Gomes
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Asmo Koskinen wrote: > > Fernando, can you help Edward Tyrie (edtyrie at gmail.com) to set up his > Tascam work, he has also Tascam US-122: > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-users/2009-March/004378.html > Yes, let me get my installation notes I

Rosegargen + Fluidsynth - no sound while recording

2009-03-30 Thread Fernando Gomes
Hi I'm trying to use Fluidsynth DSSI plugin in Rosegarden (on Ubuntu Studio 8.04) to record some midi tracks, using my midi keyboard. I 'virtually' connect the soundcard midi (TASCAM 122) in patchage to the midi recording input in Rosegarden and start recording on rosegarden, I see the track being

Re: Newbie question - soundcard support

2008-07-04 Thread Fernando Gomes
Thank you all! I just bought a Tascam US122 on Ebay, so I'm waiting to try it with Linux! Best regards On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:45 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 10:47:00 +0200 (CEST) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > hello > > > > http://www.tascam.com/products/us-224.html

Re: Newbie question - soundcard support

2008-07-04 Thread Fernando Gomes
Thank you all! I just bought a Tascam US122 on Ebay, so I'm waiting to try it with Linux! Best regards Fernando On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:45 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 10:47:00 +0200 (CEST) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > hello > > > > http://www.tascam.com/products/us

Newbie question - soundcard support

2008-07-03 Thread Fernando Gomes
Hi, I'm new to ubuntustudio (but long time user of Linux and Ubuntu). I'm building a dedicated homestudio PC and need to choose the soundboard for it (currently using a soundblaster, but want to have less noise in the recordings and better resolution, if possible). My problem is what hardware curre