Hi Batz, just a quick re: On 12/01/2010 02:29 PM, Batz wrote: > Y-ellow All. > OK. need some help here. I regret to say that I'm not getting > much mileage out of AVlinux. I haven't felt quite like throwing a > computer out the window, since Turtle Beach first started making sound > cards. Well, OK, It's not quite that bad but it's certainly reminiscent. > Ah them were the days... However I think my days of experiments in > computer aerodynamics are behind me. :) I hope. > > I'm not even quite sure what questions to ask at this point. There is so > much not working properly. It all seems quite hopeless. So ultimately; I > need to know if I am wasting my time or should I persist? Should I move > on and try a different distro? Though I actually like the distro it self. > > The test bed is fairly simple... > > 2.8 gig P4 > 1 gig RAM > Hoontech DSP124 (Envy24) sound card. > Evolution MK249 USB keyboard. > > The final system will be different to this but this will have to do as a > proof of concept. All of which appears to work in and of it self. > > For the most part, software will either connect to MIDI or Audio but not > both. All except for that little drum machine thing. Hydrogen? I get > sound and MIDI but it Xruns and crashes regularly. I'm not so much > worried about the Xruns at this point. There are bigger issues. Linux > sampler only works as a Zynjacku plug in. Except that Zynjacku's MIDI > comes up in the MIDI tab of JACK. Everything else comes in under the > ALSA tab. Which means there's no way to connect to it. Or no obvious way. run 'a2jmidi' > Yoshimi looked really interesting. It looks as though you can use > samples as oscillators which could be what I'm after. Except that as > above, I can't connect MIDI into it. And even when using the little > keyboard applet/window, it crashes a lot. Usually it takes JACK out as > well. To the point of requiring a reboot. Because the frozen windows > lock themselves and I can't kill them. And JACK won't connect anything > after that. I guess I could find the process and kill it. I can't see > that being very helpful up on stage in front of an audience though. And > the last time it crashed, it seems to have crashed permanently. Yoshimi > will load and lock it self and that's all. AFAIK, Yoshimi is still under heavy development and not ready for prime-time, yet. > Perhaps the recording apps work well. I don't know. I'm not set up to > test that. And this is not my current focus. > > So anyway, if any of this sound familiar and is easily fixed then I'd be > over the moon to hear about it. Or alternatively, should I move on to > try another distro? > > Thanks in advance. > > Be absolutely icebox. > > _ __ _ > | "_ \ | | batzman-lau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > | |_)/ __ _| |_ ____ _-_|\ > | _ \ / _` | __|___ | / \ > | |_) | (_| | |_ / / \_.-*_/ > |_,__/ \__,_|\__|/ / v > / ,__ > Goodfortune |_____| http://all-electric.com > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
