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HOW TO INSTALL UBUNTU STUDIO 9.10 WITHOUT HAVING THE INSTALL #%$&%# FAIL!:

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MIJ-VI

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1) Install Ubuntu Studio 9.10 as per normal but DON'T install the Audio Applications (if you do, the install will fail).

2) After installing Ubuntu Studio, re-boot your computer and insert the Ubuntu Studio 9.10 install DVD.

3) Go to System-->Administration--Software Sources and check mark the Ubuntu Studio DVD you see in the Software Sources dialog box. Now click the close button.

4) Go to System-->Administration and launch Synaptic Package Manager and then click the Origins button on the lower left hand side. (This will cause three entries for the Ubuntu Studio install DVD to appear in the upper left hand side.)

5) Click 'All' above the three entries and type: network-manager-gnome into the Quick search box, check mark network-manager-gnome, and Apply the changes. After network-manager-gnome has been installed you'll have to re-boot your PC. Eject the Ubuntu Studio 9.10 install DVD and re-boot. When your machine has re-booted you'll see the NetworkManager Applet icon in the menu bar on the right hand side (this allows convenient control of wired & wireless networks and also supports Roaming Mode). Now connect to the Internet.

6) Once again insert the Ubuntu Studio 9.10 install DVD, launch the Synaptic Package Manager, click 'All' above the three entries, and type: ubuntustudio-audio into the Quick search box, and then check mark ubuntustudio-audio. Doing this will automatically check mark all of Ubuntu Studio's audio applications.

EDIT: (To install on a machine which has no Internet connection, type ttf-mscorefonts-installer into the search box at this point and then un-mark the ttf-mscorefonts-installer. THIS is the only installer on the Ubuntu Studio 9.10 install DVD which requires a 'Net connection.)

Now Apply the changes AFTER MAKING SURE that your PC is connected to the Internet BEFORE you install the audio apps.

Why? Because one of the items which is intalled with the audio applications is the MS Core Fonts package *rolls eyes* which the Synaptic Package Manager has to retrieve via the Internet from Source Forge.

If your machine isn't connected to the Internet, the MS Core Fonts install will fail and display a dialog box saying so.

I suspect that THIS might be the reason why Ubuntu Studio 9.10 won't install the audio applications collection from its DVD onto a non-Internet connected PC.

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DISAPPEARING APPLICATION AND DOCUMENT WINDOWS:

After getting everything installed, and booting into the Ubuntu Studio 9.10 desktop, you will notice that a running application (or open document) simply disappears if its Minimize Window button is clicked.

A remedy...

Right-click the menu bar and drag down to 'New Panel'. (This will cause a new panel/task bar to appear at the bottom of the screen.)

Now right-click the new panel and drag to 'Add to Panel...', and then scroll down & select 'Window List' from the list of of items which appear in the pop-up window.

Next, drag 'Window List' to the lower left hand side of the new panel/task bar. From now on when ever you click the Minimize Window button on any app or doc, it'll collapse down to a new button in the new panel/task bar so that you can still get at it.

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AUDIO PROBLEMS:

'Can't hear audio which is routed into your PC's line level inputs? That's because said inputs are muted by default in Ubuntu/Ubuntu Studio 9.10.

To un-mute the line level inputs: Launch the Terminal (Applications-->Accessories-->Terminal), type alsamixer at the prompt, and then tap the Enter button on your PC's keyboard.

You'll see what you have to do to un-mute your PC's line level inputs (your keyboard's left & right arrow keys navigate, the up & down keys increase & decrease levels, and the 'M' key mutes & un-mutes the selected audio input(s) or outputs).

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SOMETHING I READ ON THE 'NET YESTERDAY (which seems to work...)

"Re: Notification ballons on Karmic Koala
There's a fix for this.

Notifications are handled by the package notify-osd. What we have to do is replace the default version with one from Julien Lavergne's PPA.

First of all add the following two repos to your sources list:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gilir/updates/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/gilir/updates/ubuntu karmic main

Then add the signing key:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 0EF28BC1

and reload the package info:

sudo apt-get update

Then you can find notify-osd in Synaptic and install the new package. Once you've done that all the notifications will go back to the top right-hand corner where they belong."

- 'Can't recall the author's name...

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BTW. So far, so good with Ubuntu Studio 9.10 running on a Pentium IV @ 3.20 GHz + a 1 MB L2 mounted on an ASUS P4P800-E Rev. 1.02 sporting 3 GB of RAM! :)

EDIT: Ubuntu Studio Wiki.

Ubuntu Documentation > Community Documentation > UbuntuStudio
 
#2
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#4
Don't want to turn this into a Linux versus Windows, but recently I updated one computer from Windows vista home premium to Windows 7 professional. Besides the box saying all versions of Vista are eligible for upgrade, turns out there is no upgrade path from Vista Home premium to Windows 7 pro. After doing a clean install, I'm left running BETA drivers for many peripherals or nothing at all. 2 devices down. The "XP" compatibility is nothing more than a virtual machine. Forget about getting XP driver's to work.

Not that Linux isn't without driver issues - just 'cause the board manufacturer's don't bother. But you'd think a "Windows" release that claimed XP capability actually would have XP compatibility - it doesn't. In fact virtual machines on Linux running XP are just as XP compatible as XP on Windows 7. But Wine on Linux is even more compatible with XP (leaner pass through to devices). The Muse Receptor and SMS Pro V-machine use Linux with Wine to make standalone VST players.

My primary Music computer is still running XP. But Linux is looking better all the time. EnergyXT directly ported to Linux on a netbook - ala Indamixx Netbook looking better all the time.

The more "Successful" posts I see with Linux the better. I appreciate seeing people success and experiences. Maybe eventually it will get somewhere for the general public. Maybe my next computer will be Linux.
 
#5
"Maybe my next computer will be Linux"?

A 2nd hard drive (partitioned to also function as a back up volume for personal files) + this = Windows + Linux now.

I dual-booted for quite a while and gradually Windows fell by the wayside...
 
#6
An e-mail I've recently received...

From: [email protected]

RE: Re Audio interfaces for the Indamixx Netbook.‏

"Invalid Link Removed works and is our suggested card of choice for Indamixx Products.
The only thing that does not work is the special 32/96 switch.
If you can live with 44.1 and 48 the UA-25EX is awesome."

Thank you
Ron

:hyper:

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BTW. The Transmission 3.0 OS (Beta) this netbook uses is based on Ubuntu 9.04 and thus can use the Ubuntu software repositories. :)
 
#11
When using one computer for Ubuntu Studio and for general computer use, one may wish to install Ubuntu Desktop: Invalid Link Removed on a separate partition or hard drive for more typical usage (in order to preserve Ubuntu Studio's performance).

If one goes this route, then this will be helpful...

Eva's Useful Guide to Ubuntu 9.10: Invalid Link Removed

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EDIT:

Another (simpler) option would be to use an install of Ubuntu Studio on two separate partitions:

- one strictly for recording audio,

- and another loaded up with additional applications aimed at general computer use.
 
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MIJ-VI said:
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AUDIO PROBLEMS:

'Can't hear audio which is routed into your PC's line level inputs? That's because said inputs are muted by default in Ubuntu/Ubuntu Studio 9.10.

To un-mute the line level inputs: Launch the Terminal (Applications-->Accessories-->Terminal), type alsamixer at the prompt, and then tap the Enter button on your PC's keyboard.

You'll see what you have to do to un-mute your PC's line level inputs (your keyboard's left & right arrow keys navigate, the up & down keys increase & decrease levels, and the 'M' key mutes & un-mutes the selected audio input(s) or outputs).

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Click to expand...

Just for some clarifications: Does this mean that line-in playthrough WAS NOT disabled in 9.10? Just hidden???

Not that it's such a big deal, cus if the way I have my stuff setup. I can split/mix signals for both "physical" monitoring and adding drums to just the monitored audio.

Still, it was one of the first changes I noticed in 9.10....

EDIT: what I mean by "hidden" is this: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/21755/

Im "TheTulip" on there commenting BTW. The new default "volume control" GUI has no line-in playback/through mute/unmute/volume control anymore :(
 
#15
Couldn't you just install regular ubuntu 9.10, and use synaptek package mngr to install the same ubuntu studio audio software?
9.10 isn't nearly as bloated as previous versions. With my xonar d2x with alsa, the input volumes aren't muted in 9.10. I didn't see which sound card you're using though.
 
#16
My "soundcard" is a line-in/mic-in/headphone jack thingy on the front of my laptop. Pretty lo-tech.

I created a custom launcher for alsamixer that sits on my top panel close to the volume icon:

Alsamixer.gif


Once you get used to the controls (arrow keys and "m" mostly. space to choose capture channel) its pretty awesome :D
 
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Recording at 96 kHz: Requires USB 2.0 (duh…)

Posted by Mike Strosaker under Linux, recording: http://zombieprocess.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/recording-at-96-khz-requires-usb-2-duh/

I recently installed Ubuntu Studio on a spare, many-years old system (a Pentium 3) to try out a new Invalid Link Removed audio interface that I picked up. I plan to detail my experiences with Studio in a soon-to-come post, but there was one problem I ran into that warrants its own post.

After applying a patch for the device and rebuilding the kernel modules (again, topic for another post), I was easily able to record at 44.1 kHz. Then I ran the following command to record at 96 kHz:

mike@studio:~$ arecord -v -r 96000 -f cd -t wav -D plughw:UA25EX test.wav

After the expected verbose output, the arecord command immediately terminated with the following error message:

arecord: xrun:1090: read/write error, state = PREPARED

Hmm. Not very informative. I thought to run dmesg, though, which gave me more useful information:

[13469.727719] ALSA /home/mike/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-2.6.24/debian/build/build-rt/sound/alsa-driver/usb/usbaudio.c:864: cannot submit datapipe for urb 0, error -28: not enough bandwidth

EDIT: Ubuntu Studio 9.10's kernel ver. is 2.6.31-9-rt

Not enough bandwidth. It occurred to me at this point that this system is old enough to pre-date the common availability of USB 2.0. And then I was surprised to find that I didn’t know how to tell from the command line whether a system’s USB controllers are 1.1 or 2.0.

And so, to the point of this article: On a Linux system, how do you determine the versions of your USB controllers?

Simply run lspci -v | grep HCI. Any controllers that say “UHCI” or “OHCI” are USB 1.1; any that say “EHCI” are 2.0. Sure enough, there were only USB 1.1 controllers on the system. I picked up a PCI card with 5 USB 2.0 ports for $15, plugged the audio interface into that, and suddenly I could record at 96 kHz with no problem."

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Nov. 17, 2009

Post #5: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1324473

"Indeed I'm quite happy with my UA-25ex - works out-of-the-box in both 'standards-compliant' and 'advanced' modes with reasonably recent kernels.

It's a bit picky about which sample formats it accepts, which can be a nuisance if you want to have your applications talk to it directly through ALSA.

Personally I always use JACK, so this is not a problem for me - if you want to use it without JACK, I'm sure you can do some ALSA configuration to take care of this, too - haven't tried though."

- raboofje

:hyper:
 

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