[PlanetCCRMA] Re: Curious if gridflow>PD is easy to setup on CCRMA

Andres Cabrera andres@geminiflux.com
Wed Aug 17 18:19:00 2005


Hi,
I got it from cvs (about a month or so ago). About Fink, I have no
idea...

Cheers,
Andres

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 22:17, Dan wrote:
> 
> On 8/16/05 7:52 PM, "Andres Cabrera" <andres@geminiflux.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I don't remember exactly, but I have built gridflow. I don't recall any
> > difficulties. (FC2 Planet CCRMA)
> 
> I'll give it a shot when I get in front of my machine.
> 
> Does it install from CVS or package? Is is possible to use Fink to install
> it on OS X?
> 
> -Dan
> 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Andres
> > 
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> I haven't been using my Linux box much recently, gravitating toward my OS X,
> >> but I'm having a hell of a time getting gridflow running with PD on os x.
> >> 
> >> Is it straight forward for an amateur to set up on CCRMA, or will I be in
> >> for more headaches?
> >> 
> >> Thanks.
> >> 
> >> -Dan
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> --__--__--
> >> 
> >> Message: 3
> >> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:28:29 -0700 (PDT)
> >> From: Ron Pepper <feffer777@yahoo.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [PlanetCCRMA] Re: Problem with /usr/bin/jackstart
> >> To: Michael Jackson <jackson@scsr.nevada.edu>, pirrone
> >> <pirrone@localnet.com>,
> >>    planetccrma@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
> >> 
> >> --- Michael Jackson <jackson@scsr.nevada.edu> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> < On 8/10/05, Ron Pepper <feffer777@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> < I was wrong about this, and finally did get sound to record under
> >>> < FC3! I used the simple Gnome sound recorder, which didn't involve
> >>> < using Jack. So I'm happy for now, but I can't use more complex
> >>> apps
> >>> < like Audacity, which I believe require Jack.
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> You don't need to run Jack to use Audacity. In fact, I don't
> >>> think Audacity works with Jack. Glad you got it working, Ron!
> >> 
> >> I don't absolutely need Audacity, since other recorders are working,
> >> but I'm confused at not getting Audacity to work. I checked the wiki
> >> page and stopped the system sounds and did the other things
> >> mentioned. Audacity would run and I could import saved tracks into
> >> it, but I couldn't run xmms (for the audio stream) and run Audacity
> >> at the same time. It gave a connection error. My understanding is
> >> that it has to run alone. That's why I tried to get Jack working. I
> >> thought it was necessary to get Audacity and xmms running at the same
> >> time. Was I wrong about that?
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> Ron
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
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> >> 
> >> --__--__--
> >> 
> >> Message: 4
> >> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:51:06 -0700 (PDT)
> >> From: Ron Pepper <feffer777@yahoo.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [PlanetCCRMA] Re: Problem with /usr/bin/jackstart
> >> To: Ron Pepper <feffer777@yahoo.com>,
> >>    Michael Jackson <jackson@scsr.nevada.edu>, pirrone <pirrone@localnet.com>,
> >>    planetccrma@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
> >> 
> >>>> You don't need to run Jack to use Audacity.
> >> 
> >> Specifically, when I start a stream with xmms and then launch
> >> Audacity, I get the message, "There was an error initializing the
> >> audio i/0 layer.  You will not be able to play or record audio.
> >> ERROR: Host error." As I mentioned, I followed the wiki
> >> troubleshooting info for Audacity, but haven't got it working. Any
> >> ideas?
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> Ron
> >> 
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> >> 
> >> --__--__--
> >> 
> >> Message: 5
> >> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 07:14:10 -0700
> >> From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
> >> To: Ron Pepper <feffer777@yahoo.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [PlanetCCRMA] Re: Problem with /usr/bin/jackstart
> >> Cc: Michael Jackson <jackson@scsr.nevada.edu>, pirrone
> >> <pirrone@localnet.com>,
> >>    planetccrma@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
> >> 
> >> On 8/15/05, Ron Pepper <feffer777@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> I don't absolutely need Audacity, since other recorders are working,
> >>> but I'm confused at not getting Audacity to work. I checked the wiki
> >>> page and stopped the system sounds and did the other things
> >>> mentioned. Audacity would run and I could import saved tracks into
> >>> it, but I couldn't run xmms (for the audio stream) and run Audacity
> >>> at the same time. It gave a connection error. My understanding is
> >>> that it has to run alone. That's why I tried to get Jack working. I
> >>> thought it was necessary to get Audacity and xmms running at the same
> >>> time. Was I wrong about that?
> >>> 
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Ron
> >> 
> >> Ron,
> >>    If an application is not a 'Jack application', meaning that it was
> >> written to talk to the JAck server, then it won't work with Jack.
> >> 
> >> 1) xmms is not a 'Jack application' so in it's normal state it will ot
> >> talk to Jack. xmms does have a jack plugin that does create a jack
> >> interface so if you load that plugin then xmms will work with Jack.
> >> 
> >> 2) Audacity was never a 'Jack application' and I've not heard of any
> >> way to run it under Jack.
> >> 
> >>    Keep in mind, if you're not running Jack then in general you can
> >> use only one audio app at a time. there is on possible work around to
> >> this. Write a .asoundrc file and create virtual devices that use the
> >> dmix plugin. This would, in theory, allow multiple Alsa apps to access
> >> the Alsa sound server at the same time without using Jack. I've not
> >> succeeded myself in making this work reliably though so look for
> >> someone who can help before you undertake such a task.
> >> 
> >> Cheers,
> >> Mark
> >> 
> >> 
> >> --__--__--
> >> 
> >> Message: 6
> >> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:31:15 +0200 (CEST)
> >> From: "Vegard Sandvold" <vegard.sandvold@notam02.no>
> >> To: planetccrma@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
> >> Reply-To: vegard.sandvold@notam02.no
> >> Subject: [PlanetCCRMA] Playing sound while logged out
> >> 
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> maybe someone can help me solve a (I would believe) rather rare problem.
> >> 
> >> I have recently set up a sound installation on a FC3 with planetccrma,
> >> where cron is used to schedule hourly sound playback through sndplay. The
> >> system is running unsupervised, without any users logged in.
> >> 
> >> This creates a problem, however, because sndplay is not allowed access to
> >> the sound card when the user owning the cron job is not logged on! Which
> >> means no sound! Everything works fine when I'm logged on, and /dev/dsp has
> >> the following permissions and ownership:
> >> crw-------  1 riksarkivet root 14, 3 Aug  6 03:50 /dev/dsp
> >> 
> >> Any ideas why this problem occurs? And how to get around it? Just changing
> >> the permissions won't work, as they are reverted when I log out.
> >> 
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >> Vegard
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> --__--__--
> >> 
> >> Message: 7
> >> Subject: Re: [PlanetCCRMA] Playing sound while logged out
> >> From: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
> >> To: vegard.sandvold@notam02.no
> >> Cc: planetccrma@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
> >> Organization: 
> >> Date: 16 Aug 2005 09:42:48 -0700
> >> 
> >> On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 01:31, Vegard Sandvold wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> 
> >>> maybe someone can help me solve a (I would believe) rather rare problem.
> >>> 
> >>> I have recently set up a sound installation on a FC3 with planetccrma,
> >>> where cron is used to schedule hourly sound playback through sndplay. The
> >>> system is running unsupervised, without any users logged in.
> >>> 
> >>> This creates a problem, however, because sndplay is not allowed access to
> >>> the sound card when the user owning the cron job is not logged on! Which
> >>> means no sound! Everything works fine when I'm logged on, and /dev/dsp has
> >>> the following permissions and ownership:
> >>> crw-------  1 riksarkivet root 14, 3 Aug  6 03:50 /dev/dsp
> >>> 
> >>> Any ideas why this problem occurs? And how to get around it? Just changing
> >>> the permissions won't work, as they are reverted when I log out.
> >> 
> >> To change the permissions permanently you have to edit
> >> /etc/security/console.perms (see "man console.perms" for more details).
> >> 
> >> You probably want to change the default permissions of the audio devices
> >> when not logged into the console to world writable.
> >> 
> >> -- Fernando
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> --__--__--
> >> 
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