Hi there everybody,
long time no talk to the list.
I had decided to try and install 64-Studio once again to see if there's any
improvements made re: interaction with my personal Hardware.
As some of you might remember, I had many problems running this fine distro on
my PC, without ever knowing why. All tips & tricks given to me didn't make it
really better.
Since then I haven't given up on Linux, but instead went with some more
user/newbie friendly distros, namely Ubuntu and Linux MINT-XFCE Edition.
Just to gain some more experience and getting a little more comfortable with
GNU/Linux in general.

So first let me say that all in all it looks like many of the quirks I had with
previous versions seem to be gone. Great. Probably also due to some HW
exchange/additions on my side lately.

On install, I encounter the exact same problems as Dave (hi Dave ), that is
this 'Printer driver installation error' just a bit before the end of
installation, as well as a GRUB error, telling me that something went not well.
Don't remember the exact wording, but after turning back to the main
installation menu and asking GRUB to install to the MBR, all went well after the
reboot.
Then there's this annoying message about 'fst: post-installation processing
error 2' (or something like that, I'm on german language), all seems to install
fine without any problems afterwards.

It seems that Aeolus & Rosegarden are not able to be updated due to dependency
problems, although the updates appear in Synaptic. And I haven't yet added any
external repositories. I'm still having trouble to figure how to enable ntfs
write permission (and to mount my ntfs partitions in the first place). I have
created the necessary directories, experimented with the settings as written in
an older forum thread (http://64studio.com/node/110), but still I can't figure.

So thanks for what looks like a (quite) solid release. Keep on rocking

Raphael
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Hi Raphael,

Hope you're well,

Raphael> It seems that Aeolus & Rosegarden are not able to be updated
due to dependency
problems, although the updates appear in Synaptic.

I never had this upgrade problem Raphael, but I had enabled 64studio
testing in synaptic.
The last install and upgrade here was a week ago.
post install,
If I removed fst first, the upgrade went smoothly.
If I left fst on the machine, "everything still upgraded" but I got a
message error fst.
the message remained at later upgrades, but all other updates completed
and installed fine.
Using apt-get update/upgrade here by the way (not synaptic).
Wish I could help with ntfs but I'v never used it.

64studio_i386 is rock solid here, once I got passed the install print
conf issue it's running like a dream.

Cheers,

dave.


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Hello Ralf,

As regards ntfs partitions I instaled ntfs-3g driver from source.
http://www.ntfs-3g.org/index.html#download

I remember that I had to install some earlier version of gcc compiler from synaptic.

And I put following lines to my fstab for my two partitions (read and write):
/dev/sda1 /mnt/win_system ntfs-3g defaults 0 1
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_data ntfs-3g defaults 0 1

mirami

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Hi Gustin,
I know I had it running before when I first tried 64-Studio with ntfs-3g some
time ago, but this package isn't in the repositories (neither stable nor testing
nor bpo). And I don't want to start adding external repos to my sources.lst
befor I have all the basics OK and created a system Image for backup purpose.
And I'm not sure about the overhead ntfs-3g creates. Maybe there's (almost)
none, don't remember too well right now.

Thanks for for your help.

Raphael


Gustin Johnson schrieb:
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> ntfs-3g is the package that allows writing to ntfs. I stay away from
> ntfs for storing my audio data. I use ext3 on my USB drives as there is
> a driver for windows.
>
> For mounting read only the following should do the trick:
> sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda2 /mnt/windows -o umask=0222
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Hi Dave, (sorry for double post, meant to send it to the list, I always get
caught by this thing)

yes, all is well 'n nice, summer finally starting to show it's face (meaning the
sun is coming out, really was about time ).

I think I'll uninstall fst alltogether then, I had only tried it briefly before,
but remember having quite some problems with it. So it was not that useful after
all. And for my VST(i) needs, there's still REAPER under wine, which handles
this stuff quite nicely as you know.

I have testing enabled in the sources.lst (through the synaptic interface in
fact) and Aeolus and Rosegarden show one possible update, but it doesn't get
installed. No external repos as of yet. It's not so dramatic, Aeolus is not that
important to me, but Rosegarden I'd really like to give it a thorough go if the
CPU spikes have actually gone for my PC.

Unfortunately, I need the ntfs filesystem, since I dual boot (actually triple
boot) and access my Samples and Projects drives from WinXP/SP3 as well. They
reside on a 160 GB SATA drive (1 hd for the samples & 1 for the projects).

btw, do I see it right that jack is still on 1.03 in 64-Studio? That's a tad
behind, isn't it? Anyway, maybe I'll finally success in compiling my own
packages if only I try hard enough.

Have a nice weekend
Raphael


dave schrieb:
> Hi Raphael,
>
> Hope you're well,
>
> Raphael> It seems that Aeolus & Rosegarden are not able to be updated due to
dependency
> problems, although the updates appear in Synaptic.
>
> I never had this upgrade problem Raphael, but I had enabled 64studio testing
in synaptic.
> The last install and upgrade here was a week ago.
> post install,
> If I removed fst first, the upgrade went smoothly.
> If I left fst on the machine, "everything still upgraded" but I got a message
error fst.
> the message remained at later upgrades, but all other updates completed and
installed fine.
> Using apt-get update/upgrade here by the way (not synaptic).
> Wish I could help with ntfs but I'v never used it.
>
> 64studio_i386 is rock solid here, once I got passed the install print conf
issue it's running like a dream.
>
> Cheers,
>
> dave.

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Hi Raphael,

No problem with the (double post),
I'm still trying to get my head around using the list,
their has to be an easier way than the method I use.

I've never used REAPER, going to check it out today,
in fact I'm just starting to look at wine.
How does wine perform on your system?
does it have a registry?
How does it use the swap, is it using linux swap?

Rosegarden is fine here, was it working before you tried the upgrade?
can you give me more details about you're sound set up.

I multi-boot also, I keep nothing valuable on the installed partition,
all installed distro's (3) access a fat partition.
Projects are created in home, then backed up to the fat partition
as soon as I've finished a session on them.

It looks like the system you are building there
(WinXP/SP + 160 GB SATA drive)
is going to be great once ntfs is up and running.

I've even started to disable etch in synaptic and only enable it if needed.
using emacs21 here,
emacs22 is in testing but it changes the system so much I stick with 21
it works fine. I'm only touching the surface of what it can do and I
satisfy the emacs22 testing on another computer.

I never even look to see old jack is "Thanks" I will have a look at
the home page today. If it starts ok and runs ok I never give it a
second thought.

Raphael wrote:

"A mind is like a parachute -
It doesn't work if it's not open."

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My favourite quote.....

If ever I need reminding how to master mix or compose,
FZ is only a cd away.

have a good weekend also Raphael,

Cheers,

dave.

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Hi Raphael,

> btw, do I see it right that jack is still on 1.03 in 64-Studio? That's a tad
> behind, isn't it?

Yes indeed, but it's tried and tested. There have been some reports of
lock-ups with recent jack releases, see the threads on the jack-devel list.

Our aim with the stable branch is not to introduce any changes unless
they are really necessary. After the 2.1 stable release, the testing
branch will be more bleeding-edge again.

Cheers!

Daniel

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Hi Daniel,

that's OK (well, even great) as long as everything works.

Thank you for what looks like a solid release.

Btw., it's the first time for me since trying out 64 Studio that i don't have
massive CPU spikes and such performance problems as I used to have with previous
releases. Some hardware changes/additions had been done since my last try, so
that may account as well for the better experience.

Hats off to you and Free

Raphael


Daniel James schrieb:
> Hi Raphael,
>
>> btw, do I see it right that jack is still on 1.03 in 64-Studio? That's
>> a tad behind, isn't it?
>
> Yes indeed, but it's tried and tested. There have been some reports of
> lock-ups with recent jack releases, see the threads on the jack-devel list.
>
> Our aim with the stable branch is not to introduce any changes unless
> they are really necessary. After the 2.1 stable release, the testing
> branch will be more bleeding-edge again.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Daniel
>

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