[PlanetCCRMA] GUI Issues with Dell Vostro

[Peter Adamson]

I have tried both Fedora 15 and 16 and discovered Gnome 3. Very sad for 
Linux. After 12 years as a user and staunch supporter of Red Hat/Fedora 
I have no choice but to move on. I find Gnome 3 simply unusable.

What would be the best alternative Linux distro to use with the Planet 
CCRMA suite of applications (principally Jack, Ardour, Rosegarden, 
QSynth and Hydrogen)?

Cheers,
Peter
> On 03/25/2012 02:35 PM, Peter Adamson wrote:
>> Jeff,
>>
>> If I understand correctly, one person recording one track at a time does
>> not need to be concerned with latency, so I just don't need the
>> low-latency kernel?
>>
>> If I lay a midi drum track and then record the bass while listening,
>> won't latency be an issue?
>
> No, it shouldn't. I presume you will use Ardour, it compensates for 
> that. So, if 2x1024 works reliably for you with the normal kernel you 
> should be fine.
>
> -- Fernando
>
>>> Peter,
>>> It is probably not the graphics hardware with the intel chipset.
>>>
>>> fedora 14 is past end of life, you should install fedora 15 or 16 
>>> instead,
>>> this might fix your problem.
>>>
>>> If you are just recording you don't need really low latency.
>>> Same for playing back MIDI files, low latency is not necessary.
>>>
>>> However if you are playing a MIDI keyboard into a soft-synth, you
>>> may want a latency proportional to your keyboard skills.  Same
>>> thing for recording using effects in real time, you want the latency
>>> in proportion with your ability to react.
>>>
>>> For recording with Audacity or playing back MIDI files with Timidity
>>> the standard kernel with 1024x3 (bytesxbuffers JACK setting) plays
>>> with no xruns on my equivalent laptop and is adequate for my piano
>>> skills using a MIDI keyboard and a Bristol synth.
>>>
>>> -- Jeff
>>>
>>>      From: Peter Adamson
>>>      Subject: [PlanetCCRMA] GUI Issues with Dell Vostro
>>>
>>>      I have just installed FC14 with the low latency kernel on a Dell
>>>      Vostro
>>>      1710.
>>>
>>>      The GUI freezes after anywhere from 10 minutes to a few hours. 
>>> This
>>>      usually happens when a dialogue box or application window opens.
>>>      Occasionally it happens when clicking a button.
>>>
>>>      The mouse moves around the screen ok but the GUI does not 
>>> respond to
>>>      clicks or keystrokes. No way to get into a console to see 
>>> what's going
>>>      on, so a hard reboot is the only solution.
>>>
>>>      It does not appear to happen with the unmodified kernel.
>>>
>>>      I have tried using KDE instead of Gnome but the problem is
>>>      actually worse.
>>>
>>>      Questions:
>>>      Are there any ideas about what is causing this and what might be a
>>>      workaround?
>>>      What information would be useful to post here? (hardware? which 
>>> log
>>>      files?...)
>>>
>>>      I have tried recording with the basic kernel. Latency seems to be
>>>      exactly the same as with the modified kernel. However midi 
>>> playback is
>>>      not as smooth (clicks at start/end of midi segments).
>>>
>>>      Cheers,
>>>      Peter
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