Testing: KXStudio 12.04.1 ISO (pre-release)

[hebjuzeb]

This is gonna be awesome. Curious, does the iso use the latest development version of Hydrogen? (Hoping I can use it to export songs with tempo changes.)

[deufrai]

Heya

Tried the live session (not enough RAM) and ...

I'm impressed. Jack via Cadence tools suite works like charm with internal & USB audio interface. All smooth at 44.1/64/2
Played a bit with hydrogen, Qtractor and a few FX plugs. All good so far.

Setting up dual head was a breeze and the overall theme looks nice to me.
This definitely made me make the switch from Untiy to the full KXstudio KDE4 desktop on my day to day install

In the process of tweaking things.

One thing, when shuting dow from the live session, DVD got ejected (laptop computer) before the end of the process, so I needed to electrically shut the computer down

Thanks for this work, Falk !!

[GraysonPeddie]

I have Echo Gina 3g, which is a PCI card and an external box that connects to it. Echomixer is provided by alsa-tools-gui.

Install alsa-tools-gui, open KDE Kickoff menu, type "Echo" (no quotes) and you should see "Echomixer."

[ToddMWorth]

Now I need to ask, can someone tell me which hardware mixers are useful to have installed?
I'm referring to ffado-mixer, hdsp mixer, etc.
(maybe I should create a new topic for this?)

I think maybe it would be good to create a topic; I missed this question, and I'm just lucky that Grayson gave the answer for me

I don't have any fancy interface, so I don't know...

What that's just not fair. Maybe a belated xmas present is in order heheh

[Newk]

Hi! (my first post)
running the iso now from a liveUSB made with unetbootin.. seems to run fine! also got my saffireLE working through FFADO by setting cadence driver to firewire.
Speaking of the hardware i would like the ffado-mixer in it ofcourse
Awesome! only pulseaudio seems not to be running according to cadence.. but all audio seems to be working so its not like i'm missing something

i need to reinstall my system with this ..or should i wait for the final iso?

cheers!

[ToddMWorth]

Great news!
I'll wait for 64bit, but I think that congratulations and MANY THANKS are in order.

[Newk]

32bit is fine for me, have not felt the need for 64bit myself yet.

and yes.. falkTX deserves a huge THANX again

[GraysonPeddie]

If I could shave off 30+ seconds of rendering time in Blender for for multiple frames of animation and encode in webm/ogg format, I'm all for 64-bit.

[Newk]

on the liveISO the FFADO driver worked right out of the box.. but after a full install i get:

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cadence-session-start -s
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/cadence/src/cadence_session_start.py", line 220, in <module>
    sys.exit(startSession(False))
  File "/usr/share/cadence/src/cadence_session_start.py", line 100, in startSession
    startJack()
  File "/usr/share/cadence/src/cadence_session_start.py", line 131, in startJack
    DBus.jack.StartServer()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 145, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.jackaudio.Error.Generic: Failed to open server

so jack won't start now with my saffireLE

[Newk]

no, that didn't change it, i get the same error

[Newk]

a part from cadence-logs

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Sun Dec 30 09:46:34 2012: Controller activated. Version 1.9.9.5 (unknown) built on Sat Dec 22 20:05:55 2012
Sun Dec 30 09:46:34 2012: Loading settings from "/home/newk/.config/jack/conf.xml" using expat_2.0.1 ...
Sun Dec 30 09:46:34 2012: setting parameter 'engine':'driver':'(null)' to value "firewire"
Sun Dec 30 09:46:34 2012: setting parameter 'drivers':'alsa':'rate' to value "44100"
Sun Dec 30 09:46:34 2012: setting parameter 'drivers':'alsa':'period' to value "256"
Sun Dec 30 09:46:34 2012: setting parameter 'drivers':'firewire':'period' to value "256"
Sun Dec 30 09:46:34 2012: setting parameter 'drivers':'firewire':'rate' to value "44100"
Sun Dec 30 09:46:34 2012: Listening for D-Bus messages
Sun Dec 30 09:46:34 2012: Starting jack server...
Sun Dec 30 09:46:34 2012: JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10
Sun Dec 30 09:46:34 2012: ERROR: Cannot lock down 107335194 byte memory area (Cannot allocate memory)
Sun Dec 30 09:46:34 2012: ERROR: firewire ERR: FFADO: Error creating virtual device
Sun Dec 30 09:46:34 2012: ERROR: Cannot attach audio driver
Sun Dec 30 09:46:34 2012: ERROR: JackServer::Open failed with -1
Sun Dec 30 09:46:34 2012: ERROR: Failed to open server

and yes cadence does start, i used it to set to alsa driver when firewire fails
this also happened right after the install, failing to start ..now i got other things installed too but dunno if thats the case

[Newk]

YES! that was it.
maybe set the user to audio/video group with the kxstudio-welcome program?
that could be a way to set things right.
now i'm gonna set my FL Studio up in Wine
thrilling that these things work!

speaking of FL Chan.. and you adding Miku on the wallpaper, maybe KXStudio could do with some Moe anthropomorphism too
i can draw too so i'll give it a shot, but prolly less good then someone who is used to do allot such things

[wolftune]

Today in my KXStudio install, the software updater is set to install a bunch of new Ubuntu packages. Is this right?
It's installing antiword, debian-faq, dpkg-www, gnome-user-guide, gparted, synaptic, yelp, and a bunch of others.
These seem all gtk related. I have Muon stuff and other KDE/qt tools. Why do I need gparted? Why are these things showing up to be installed in the update list?

[wolftune]

I just wanted to check that this wasn't anything weird before applying these updates.
I've been reasonably happy with Muon. I don't remember what my complaints were. Haven't used synaptic in a while, so I don't remember what I'm missing.

is kxstudio-apply-root something users do anything about, or just something you handle?

[wolftune]

Would it apply to me, given that I started with the straight KXStudio (obviously using the KXStudio theme) and then I adapted and changed things to the point of using Oxygen and other themes and colors and whatnot? Or does this new script only apply when KXStudio repos are added to existing GNU/Linux installations?