On 05/05/2012 11:25 AM, bart deruyter wrote:
Gnome 3 would be a good alternative too, if it wouldn't hang so often
and reduce jack performance so much. I work on an i7 with 16 GB of ram
and a quadro600 nvidia, so in my opinion that even should be overkill
for audio production, but on Gnome3 based systems like gnome-shell and
unity it seems not to be.
Gnome3 appears to be a major resource hog. I've been told that Gnome3
desktop uses 1GB RAM without running anything else. For comparison, XFCE
uses less than 256MB.
My desktop machine has quad-core AMD Phenom II processor, 12GB RAM and
some NVidia card that isn't supported by Nouveau. It works very well
with RG and other audio and graphics stuff I do with it. It's running
the XFCE environment. Some audio distros I know of use XFCE or LXDE
because both KDE4 and Gnome3 have gotten too big. KDE in particular
fires up a whole bunch of KDE system daemons that suck up processor
cycles, check hardware status (a good way to trigger extraneous
interrupts), index the files in your home folder, etc. Lots of
functionality that you might not want to have interfering with audio work.
The other issue remains though, why does rosegarden make such a mess of
jack when it exits? I sometimes even have to reboot in order to get jack
running again after I stop rosegarden.
Hmmmm. What version of Rosegarden? Do you have RG start JACK, or do you
start JACK first, then RG? And do you have the problem if you don't use
Ladish?
2012/5/5 david
On 05/04/2012 10:18 PM, bart deruyter wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've noticed an old issue with rosegarden that seem not to get
fixed, at
> least, I don't know how to fix it or find a workaround for it,
and a new
> issue on ubuntu 12.04.
>
> The old issue is one concerning jack. When exiting rosegarden jack
> crashes in a strange way. It keeps running, but there is no in- nor
> output anymore, in other words : no audio. I'm sure that cannot be a
> wanted result of exiting rosegarden, it should only exit
rosegarden and
> not block sound for all the other sound-releated applications. This
> always happens when using ladish.
I've never encountered that problem, but I don't use Ladish.
> A new issue is a gui-issue. In Ubuntu 12.04 after a while the
menu when
> right-clickingdoes not show up anymore. This happens so far in
> unity-mode. I didn't test it in gnome-shell yet. So, I don't know
if it
> is a ubuntu related issue or a rosegarden issue. In KDE it seems
to work
> fine.
My wife uses JPilot on her netbook, with the Unity interface. JPilot
frequently quits responding to clicks under Unity (especially if it's
maximized, but also when it's not maximized). JPilot works fine under
KDE3 & 4, LXDE, XFCE and FluxBox. So I think it's an Ubuntu Unity
interface problem.
I dislike the Unity interface, so my suggestion would be to replace it
with one of the above.
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David
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