On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 16:06, Russell Hanaghan wrote: > The fact that you can get it to run as root but not as mortal user > tells > us something I guess. When I was going thru my VST nightmares, I could > not get it to run at all...and I was about to jump from the proverbial > cliff ! Then Dave Phillips took pity on my feeble, whimpering self...a > mere shell of a former true man of persistance... :) ... the reward of patience is patience itself i guess ... especially when it comes to waiting for salvation :) > I don;t know what your specific problem is...but, here's what we do > know; > > -Any vst-in-linux app is heavily reliant on the version of Wine. But > we > know for a fact that 20040505 is a working version. It works on my MDK > box, and Mark has it working, as do several others here. yes, that's why i chose that specific version - i'd tried keinjo's (?) recommended one for vst_server, but i ran into some problems with that version of wine, as i recall ... > -Crystal is one of the definate .dll's that does work of the vst's. ditto with crystal - i'm just using it to test the actual functionality of jack_fst - i'd never really used in windows, but for the brief time that i played with it as the root-god, i really liked the sound ... > So does HyperCanvas 1.02. (Not sure if thats what you ultimatley want > running here?) ultimately, steinberg's groove agent ... not sure if that would happen, though... it's a great plugin though - so much more reliable and flexible than a real drummer :) hahahah (just joking, my stick-wielding friends) ... > - that on your box, something available as a service or thread to > root > allowing it to run is not available to user... this is what i'm thinking . > > What do you mean when you say "btw - i'm starting jack as normal user > ..." ? Is this when you try to run fst as user too? yes - i meant to say that i'm starting both applications as the same user, whether as root or user (just to rule out any issues that may have been associated with starting the two apps as different users) > > Did you do a Winblows install of the vst application? If so, did you > do > it as root and not user? I know a full Win install is not needed with > for Crystal...but is for Hypercanvas I think. i just unzipped Crystal.dll from the zip file, copied it to /home/mrmachine/c/ProgramFiles/vst/Crystal.dll - did this as user > What kernel are you using now? kernel#2.6.8.1-1.520.1vR9.ll.rhfc2.ccrma probly something to do with this, i reckon ... but i would hardly know :( shayne
