[PlanetCCRMA] RE: From zero to DAW in 2 hours !

[Bal Dobe]

David,

I have just gone through this for FC4 and I now get the same error that
I had in FC3.  That is I get the message, 

Soundserver informational message

Error while initialising the sound driver

Device /dev/dsp can't be opened (no such file or directory)

The sound server will continue, using null output device.


Heeelp.   This is exactly the same error that I get in FC3.  I did get
error messages on boot up regarding the sound.

I got as far as rebooting into the new FC4 ccrma kernel. 

Over to you.

Bal.


-----Original Message-----
From: David Slimp [mailto:rock808@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 5:27 PM
To: planetccrma@ccrma.stanford.edu; Bal Dobe
Subject: From zero to DAW in 2 hours !

My short little How-To which took me from fresh install to perfect DAW
in 2 hours.

I'll be expanding on this soon, but Bal wants help "now" so I thought
I'd get this out ASAP :)

First, let me say I've spent the previous 2-3 weeks trying to get my
system
up and running with Linux audio/DAW stuff.  It's been very frustrating,
and
I'm not a linux newbie.  But lots of reading to trying one thing then
another
to massage my system in to a DAW.  It was all BS.  My two BIGGEST
factors were (1) Trying to get the internal sound card to work, and
after
a few days, then trying a $30 SB Live card which still had problems
(2) Trying to install CCRMA on a system I'd been running for 6 months
already, not intending it to be a DAW at that time (using various other
repositories, etc).

Because of that I wasted 2-3 weeks, many body cells died due to
high-stress,
and I took several people's time on several mailing lists away from
probably
more important things.

Here's the 2 hour, stress-free solution I ended up with:

1) Don't try to work with any cheap/internal cards.  If you're SERIOUS
about
audio on linux spend the $100-$200 on a WELL supported, fully featured
card.
I decided on the Delta 1010LT since it seems a majority of people on
these
lists seem to use that card, and everyone says it's a dream to get
working.

2) Install a FRESH version of Fedora Core 4.  Don't be whiney that
you've
worked hard on your system and like your configuration.  You're not
going
to be doing what you HAD been doing with the machine... it's going to be
your awesome DAW now.. so start it out from ground zero to be JUST that!
BACK UP YOUR PERSONAL DATA FIRST!!
You can always restore any other important config stuff later.
(oh... I picked ext2 for my file system type, since I've read it works
better than
ext3 for audio)

3) Once FC4 was installed, I followed this EXACT proceedure:

# PART 1
#
#   For installing Planet CCRMA I basically followed
#   http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/installtwosix.html
#   But here is the more compact break down for MY personal actions
#

# install CCRMA version of apt
rpm -Uvh
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt/rpms/apt-0.5.15cnc6-4.rhfc4.cc
rma.i386.rpm

# install GPG key for verifying packages
rpm --import
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/RPM-GPG-KEY.planetccrma.txt


# update apt package lists
apt-get update

# install CCRMA kernel and ALSA drivers
apt-get install planetccrma-core-edge

# reboot in to new kernel
# (note, if you run this as a script, it will NOT automatically
#  pick up where it leaves off after this :)
init 6


# PART 2
#  I raised volume levels on mixer and tested sound
alsamixer    # for my Delta 1010LT I raised the DAC/DAC1 - hooked to
speakers
play /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup_new.wav

# install all cool audio/video apps
apt-get install planetccrma-audiovideoapps

# At THIS point qjackctl, ardour, etc is working.

# make sure EVERYTHING is up to date
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

#
# while the above is downloading/installing - config apps as regular
user
#

# grab some cool sound fonts
wget ftp://ftp.personalcopy.net/pub/PC51f.sf2.gz
wget ftp://ftp.personalcopy.net/pub/Unison.sf2.gz

# start jack GUI - set Frames/Period = 512
# set to START auto:  Misc->Start jack server on app startup
qjackctl &

# start qsynth
# Audio->Sample Rate = 48000
# load Soundfonts (you need to gunzip the ones above, and put in a good
dir)
# use qjackctl to connect 1010LT midi out to fluidsynth in
qsynth &

exit


===============

Okay.. that's all I have for now, but should have you up and running

If you follow that and STILL have problems, then post them here.

My time line actually went like this:
#  08:30 - I started installing
#  09:10 - First boot (get apt, kernel)
#  09:44 - Boot to CCRMA kernel (install audio/video apps)
#  10:15 - Running jack/ardour

Good luck !

David


	

	
		
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