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Strayfolkso far so good. I'm really happy with my new install01:16
holsteinStrayfolk: :)01:18
Strayfolkfrom a low latency audio perspective, this seems to work better than any -rt -preempt or -lowlatency kernels I've tried01:19
Strayfolk+ I can surf wirelessly without xruns01:19
dubphilHello, is it possible to use ubuntustudio on a xubuntu install ?11:41
dubphilI don't want to use gnome11:41
dubphillooks like archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio/natty main doesn't exists where is the repository ?11:47
ailo_dubphil, You can install Xubuntu and install the ubuntustudio* packages separately12:23
ailo_dubphil, You just need to make sure you have realtime privilege. Answer yes to get that, when installing jackd (part of some of the ubuntustudio meta packages), and make sure you are apart of audio group12:24
dubphilailo: yes but which repository can I use ?13:17
holsteindubphil: ??13:33
holsteinubuntustudio = ubuntu = xubuntu13:33
holsteinas far as the repos go13:34
holsteindubphil: open up the package manager of your choice and search ubuntustudio13:34
holsteinassuming you have ubuntu installed, you would want to13:34
holsteinsudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop ubuntustudio-audio ubuntustudio-audio-plugins13:35
holstein^ for example13:35
dubphilso it is in the mainstream ubuntu packages ?*13:35
holsteindubphil: its in the normal standard repos13:35
holsteinALSO, you dont need to install any ubuntustudio specific metapackages13:36
holsteinthose are just collections of applications13:37
holsteinyou can just install the stuff you want13:37
holsteinardour, JACK, JAMin, whatever13:37
dubphilarf ok I tapped studio in the search field of synaptic and nothin appears if I fill ubuntustudio it's ok thanks a lot !13:37
dubphilI'm comming from gentoo so yes I know all the packages I need :)13:38
holsteindubphil: read about them, there are some for the gnome desktop and themeing that it seems you are not interested in13:38
holsteinubuntustudio-desktop for example13:38
dubphilok13:38
holsteinenjoy... and visit #opensourcemusicians :)13:38
dubphilyes of course thanks !13:39
dubphilwhat is the rt kernel package name ? I type linux-rt and nothing appears in synaptic13:56
holsteindubphil: what are you installing?14:00
holstein11.04?14:00
holsteinthere is no -rt kernel in the repos any more14:00
holsteinfor ubuntu or debian14:00
holsteinhttp://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia#Realtime_kernel14:00
holsteinyou can get one via PPA *if needed*14:01
holsteindubphil: i suggest trying the -generic kernel, then, try...14:01
holsteinhttps://launchpad.net/~abogani/+archive/ppa14:01
holsteinOR https://launchpad.net/~kxstudio-team/+archive/kernel14:02
holsteinand try -lowlatency , then -realtime14:02
holstein*in that order14:02
dubphilok thanks holstein14:41
dubphilI have already xubuntu 11.04 installed14:41
holsteindubphil: cool, enjoy :)14:41
holsteinmost folks report the -generic kernel working well14:42
holsteini actually have a device that works *much* better with the -generic kernel14:42
dubphilI will test it then before14:42
holsteinan old USB device14:42
dubphilme I have the terratec PHASE 24 USB device14:42
holsteini find my firewire rig still needs the -realtime14:43
holsteinwe are hopefully going to have the -lowlatency kernel in the repos at least for a few cycles, and installed by default in US14:43
holstein11.10 is the goal for that14:43
dubphilcool :)14:43
dubphilit is a very good thing to switch from gnome to xfce14:44
holsteinyeah, im looking forward to that as well14:44
dubphilwho is the maintener of ecasound ?14:45
dubphilbecause the 2.8 is already out14:45
dubphilI would be glad to maintain this package14:45
holsteindubphil: that would be great14:46
holsteinour team is a little under resourced at the moment14:46
holsteinif you want, /join #ubuntu-devel and catch up with the team lead ScottL14:46
holsteinand heres the mailing list https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel14:47
holsteindubphil: we desperately need that kind of help right now :)14:47
dubphilok I mainly use ecasound linuxsampler seq24 specimen14:47
holsteincool14:48
dubphilseq24 and specimen are currently getting a new life14:48
holsteinim mostly an analog guy, but ive used specimen before14:48
holsteinand ive tried harmonySEQ14:48
holsteinwhich is not unlike seq2414:48
dubphilI will test harmonySEQ becuse seq24 is a little old14:49
holsteinhopefully, we get harmony seq upstream in debian soon14:49
holsteinand that trickles down14:49
holsteinmy friend [lsd] over in #opensourcemusicians does a lot with seq2414:50
holsteinhttp://wootangent.net/category/music/tutorials/14:51
holsteinyeah... http://wootangent.net/2010/10/linux-music-tutorial-seq24-part-1/14:51
holsteinanyways, welcome to the team dubphil :)14:51
* holstein gotta run for a bit14:52
holsteinBBL14:52
dubphilthanks and good run ;)14:52
Strayfolkxhello16:41
Strayfolkxin studio 11.04 the keyboard layout keeps resetting to US english. I'm using Swedish/Finnish16:42
StrayfolkxI delete the USA and apply Finnish keyboard layout to the whole system. but US keyboard reappears and forces itself upon me after a while. (x reset or reboot)16:43
Strayfolkxwhere is that keyboard layout set and how do I change it permanently?16:44
orngjce223huh, I dunno, did you select it in the dropdown boxes before log-in?16:45
orngjce223If you've tried that I have no idea, you may need to ask #ubuntu16:46
holsteinyeah, thats not particularly studio related16:46
holsteinnot that you need to get out ;)16:46
orngjce223I believe we inherit the keyboard code from them16:46
orngjce223hehe16:46
holsteinbut, you could search 'ubuntu keyboard layout 11.04' instead of 'ubuntstudio....16:47
orngjce223Yeah16:47
holsteinwe dont customize those pacakges in anyways16:47
orngjce223Most of the stuff we package is the audio subsystem, right?16:47
orngjce223also video/graphics16:48
holsteinhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/656777 maybe16:48
ubottuUbuntu bug 656777 in ubiquity (Ubuntu Oneiric) "Wrong keyboard selection with starting directly ubiquity" [High,Fix released]16:48
Strayfolkxok, thanks16:48
holsteinthats easy to fix though16:49
orngjce223Mmhm16:49
holsteinsome xset command to run at startup if you have to16:49
holstein^ that bug might be in the installer only16:49
StrayfolkxI think it came after installing the nvidia driver and it wrote a new xorg.conf16:50
holsteinplausible16:50
Strayfolkxdirectly after install it was ok, as always16:50
holsteinback it up, and give it a look and play with it a bit16:50
StrayfolkxI've played with it before... I'll play with it again16:50
Strayfolkxthanks16:50
holsteinhehe :)16:50
holsteinfiddly16:51
orngjce223Yep16:51
holsteinbut, we dont have access to those drivers16:51
holsteincant really 'fix' the bugs16:51
holsteinassuming its nvidia related (which i agree, seems to be the case)16:51
StrayfolkxI see, it's hard to know which bugs are studio related and which aren't sometimes16:51
holsteinwell, doesnt hurt to ask16:52
orngjce223Mmhm16:52
holsteinAND, you can always file them as ubuntustudio bugs16:52
orngjce223No problem really16:52
orngjce223If they're really "upstream" bugs the ustudio people will point you in the right direction regardless16:52
holsteinbut, getting them looked at in a timely manner, i would suggest the regular buntu stream16:52
holsteinhehe, orngjce223 we are the ustudio people ;p16:53
orngjce223Not unlike the advice that if Linux Mint people have a problem that first they look it up with linux mint in the name, then they look it up with ubuntu in the name, then they look it up with debian in the name? :v16:53
Strayfolkxyou certainly are :)16:53
holsteinwe are trying to get to some of the studio specific bugs, and deal with them16:53
orngjce223Yeah16:53
Strayfolkthis revert to US keyboard is obviously a ubuntu-wide bug17:01
holsteinStrayfolk: relating to the nvidia driver?17:01
Strayfolkxholstein, overall17:10
StrayfolkxI think I fixed it now, by editing /etc/default/keyboard17:10
holsteinAH, that was easy :)17:11
Strayfolkxif only I could get compiz to be my default desktop17:11
holsteinStrayfolkx: are yoy on the user list?17:11
Strayfolkxno?17:12
holsteinwould you mind to just shoot an email about this, a quick one17:12
holsteinOR, tell me what you did, and i'll do it17:12
holstein*would be better coming from you though i think17:12
holsteinhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users17:12
holsteinalso, https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel if you would like17:13
holsteinStrayfolkx: im just thinking about getting it up somewhere since you *cant* be the only person struggling with this17:13
Strayfolkxyes, I found some entries @ ubuntu forums, I could answer them17:14
Strayfolkxthat's the first you find on google anyway17:14
holsteinwell, whatever you feel like you have time for17:14
holsteinin the studio community17:14
holsteini would think the other areas will get attention17:14
StrayfolkxI seem to share a lot of bugs with classic gnome 11.04 regardless of whether it's studio or not17:15
holsteinyeah, not much longer though :/17:15
holsteinXFCE though :)17:15
holsteinthats going to be nice17:15
Strayfolkxit seems slick. I use awn and hide the gnome panel anyways :)17:16
holsteinAH, thats the plan for studio 11.1017:16
holsteinAWN with XFCE17:16
StrayfolkxI'll enjoy that17:16
StrayfolkxI have a beautiful desktop :) http://peterenroth.net/stuff/desktop.png17:19
holsteinStrayfolkx: :)17:19
dubphilok so jackd won't start with my user17:25
dubphildo I just have to tweek the limits.cof file ?17:25
dubphiln ²17:27
holsteindubphil: hey17:28
holsteinfor troubleshooting purposes only17:29
holsteintry..17:29
holsteingksudo qjackctl17:29
holsteinmake sure it starts like that17:29
dubphilyes it runs well by gksudo17:33
holsteincool17:33
dubphilno xruns with the -generic ;)17:33
holsteinso, make sure you are in the audio group17:33
holsteinsudo adduser you audio17:33
holsteinthats usually all there is to it17:33
dubphilis there17:36
dubphilspecific value for the limits.conf file provided by ubuntustudio ?17:37
dubphilI have installed ubuntu-default-settings but my limits.conf didn't change17:37
holsteinright, thats not going to do it17:41
holsteinAFAIK, thats been depricated, but, you are having issues...17:41
holsteindubphil: what audio device?17:42
dubphilterratec PHASE 26 USB17:43
dubphilsnd_usb_audio17:43
holsteini have both ubuntustudio and non studio ubuntu installs17:45
holstein10.10 and 11.0417:45
holsteinand i didnt need to edit that file for USB, internal or firewire17:45
holsteinhmm....17:45
holsteindubphil: whats the message in JACK ?17:46
holsteinwhen you try and start17:46
dubphilone minute I connect from my ubuntustudio :)17:47
dubphilhi17:49
Strayfolkxdubphil, I added myself to the video group also. I *think* that was the only thing I did to get jack running17:49
dubphilStrayfolkx: strange17:49
dubphilhere is how qjackctl runs jackd:   /usr/bin/jackd -r -m -dalsa -dhw:1 -r48000 -p256 -n317:50
Strayfolkxbut I'm using firewire17:50
dubphilI have read that USB is better supported with 48000 and unpair periods17:51
dubphilthe only interesting message that i see is : (translation from french) Jack as been stopped with outgoing status=25517:54
dubphilreload my session for the group to be taken in account17:57
holsteindubphil: yeah, you need to log out and back in at least17:59
holsteinfor the audio group settings17:59
dubphilno change :(18:02
holsteininteresting18:02
holsteintry again as root18:02
dubphilyou have of course did something else18:02
holsteinand make sure its not something with the hardware18:02
dubphilyou are right when I did gksudo first I didnot check which card was used by jack2 and in fact it was my integrated pci hda intel card18:05
dubphilwith the PHASE 26 it falls18:06
dubphilarf this card has always worked18:06
holsteinAH, so thats the deal18:07
holsteindouble check though18:07
holsteinmake sure you can run JACK as normal user with the internal card18:07
holsteinthen, we can trouble shoot the PHASE18:07
holsteintheres a handy JACK1 ppa if thats the case*18:08
dubphilyes it works in userland with the hda intel onboard card18:08
dubphilso it is my usb card :(18:09
holsteinhey, now we know :)18:09
holsteindubphil: when you say it always worked? do you remember what kernel?18:10
holsteinwhat JACK verion?18:10
dubphilin fact it was about 1 years ago 2.6.26 I think and a realtime one18:10
dubphiljack 1 sure18:10
dubphilI didn't try a reboot with the card plugged, sometimes it doesn't like the hotplug18:11
holsteinis that one of these?18:12
holsteindubphil: thats acutally likely18:12
holsteindo that, and see if you see it in lspci, lsusb18:12
holsteinaplay -l18:12
holsteinarecord -l18:12
holsteinand we'll go from there18:12
dubphilI see it in all the command you've suggested but I reboot to see, at soon!18:15
dubphilthe reboot did nothing18:31
holsteindubphil: OK18:33
holsteinif you see it in aplay -l and arecord -l18:34
holsteinTHEN, JACK *can* use it18:34
holsteingo in JACKctl again as normal user18:34
holsteinlook at 'setup'18:34
holsteinyou see 'interface'18:34
holsteinits rather confusing there, but there are 2 drop down menus18:35
holsteinyou *should* see the device in one place or the other18:35
dubphilyes so my setup is hw1 for the phase 26 usb18:39
dubphilno realtime and no lock memeory18:40
dubphilmemory18:40
dubphil1024|48000|318:40
dubphildriver alsa of course18:41
holsteinright, but dont trust those labels18:43
holsteinyou might actually see 'terratec' something18:44
holsteinyou dont know that hw1 is the terratec18:44
dubphilyes i see phase 26 USB 16/4818:45
holsteinright, so thats it18:46
dubphildo I have to set also output device and input device ?18:46
holsteinyou shouldnt18:46
dubphilthey are set to default and default point to hw018:46
holsteinbut, get it set to the terratech, and mess with whats in the other tab18:46
holsteinright, try 'default'18:47
dubphilthey were already to default18:47
holsteinright18:47
holsteinbut, i dont think you were on the terratec under the other dropdown18:48
holsteinthe 'hidden' one18:48
holsteinif its in aplay -l, then you *can*  talk to it with JACK18:48
dubphilyes i'm on it sure18:48
holsteinits this fiddly step here18:48
holsteinor, whatever commandline string it takes to kick it off talking to your device18:49
holsteindubphil: i have litereally just tried every combonation before18:49
holsteinthose labels are *not* right18:49
holsteinand can actually change when you reboot18:49
holsteinhw:0 and whatever...18:49
dubphilhere is some info : http://pastebin.com/RzLXcHmt18:55
holsteinyeah, you cant really take anything from there though18:56
holsteinnothing's going to say 'jack will see this as..'18:56
holsteinyou just gotta find it18:56
holsteindubphil: can you go in the bios and disable the internal card?18:57
holsteinthat would simplify things a bit18:57
dubphilholstein: don't make me believe that the hw1 or hw0 mentioned by jack can be different than the Alsa setting even if they are equals ?18:59
holsteinim just saying what has worked for me19:02
holstein*dont trust the labels19:02
holsteinanywhere19:02
holsteinif you say to me, 'i know its hw1' im saying, you cant trust the label anywhere even if you do know that19:03
holsteinAND, those can change from boot to boot19:03
holsteinif you have terratec chosen, then, thats all i do19:03
holsteinwith my USB devices19:04
dubphilah I understand you say that I should always check if this part of the jack config is good every time I will start jack ?19:04
holsteinwell, i personally dont use USB19:05
holsteinso, i have selected it19:05
holsteinand tested19:05
holsteinand unplugged19:05
holsteinbut, i see folks all the time with that migratory issue19:05
holsteinsome folks dont have that issue19:05
holsteinbut, im saying, if you get it rocking, and reboot, and it not working again19:06
holsteinthen, thats the first place i would look19:06
dubphilok I understand19:06
dubphilthanks holstein and see you soon ! I must leave now19:07

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