[PlanetCCRMA] fc8 install

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 08:17 -0700, Oded Ben-Tal wrote:
> I decided to jump ahead and install fc8 on my old thinkpad.
> While it is mostly working, I did encounter a few problems (and learned a 
> few things along the way)
> 1) there are some missing dependencies with pd-extended. I could solve 
> some (quicktime, mpeg libraries) by adding livna repo but there is still a 
> problem with pd-list-abs.
> 
> 2) I can get clm working in a terminal but slime requires file timer which 
> it can't find when I start xemacs (using an old init.el file)

I just tested using the file at the end of this email without problems.
Hmmm, I don't use init.el AFAIK. 

> 3) I was finally(!) able to get sndlib to play 4 channels out of my maudio 
> quattro by recognizing the virtual devices defined in .asoundrc, but no 
> such luck with jack. I tried starting jack with many different options and 
> it invariably gives up and quits. The other thing I noticed was that when 
> I do get jack running with alsa drivers (it can do stereo, sort of, with 
> some xrun errors) I need to reduce the amplitude to 1% for it not to 
> overload (e.g. using snd, amplitude control slider almost all the way 
> down).
> The interesting thing was that using oss layer I can get jack to run (but 
> no 4-channels) and pd also sounds fine (again only stereo).
> 
> If you found solutions to any of the these - xemacs, slime, or the right 
> incantation for jackd - please let me know

What options are you using for jack and the usb interface? At least the
number of periods has to be 3 (or more). Sampling rate = 48000 has more
chance of working than 44100. What error messages you get?

-- Fernando

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