Hey Heather, Aymeric et al, So, this is where I'm currently at:
Managed to install Mixxx for a gig on Saturday night - all went well, apart from the occasional dodgy mix - system seemed robust, running with alsa rather than Jack (ideally I would like to use Jack so I can run some fx with it but I think my rather slow lappy has other ideas, it feels a bit clunky, dropouts etc). Spent another day on it yesterday. One of my problems was that I have 4 partitions on my drive (including a swap disk), on the 1st install only my 1st partition turned up. The swap disk didn't load and my other 2 drives were missing. On re-installing, I realised that the debian installer required me to give the drives 'mount points' (eg 2,3 etc). Also with reinstall and a wipe and reformat of my swap disk, all working (I am going to have to do more research about swap disks, I'm still not sure if they're a good idea with audio, or not?. With the addition of nano (thanks Heather) I managed to add all necessary files and folders to my system without a desktop. One of my previous problems/errors, when trying to add the PD system was the repositories not being able to find my boot-grub. For some reason it kept looking for 'sda1', I don't have sda, I'm 'hda'. I'm not sure where the problem came from. I remember when I was 1st installing, the installer said something like "You have no other OS on your system (I don't), so we can use the MBR. And we did. The 2nd time I specified HDA1, and that seems to have worked better. I apologize for not having exact errors, the ones that came up several times with my initial install was 'can't update Linux-image 2.4.something, to Linux-image 2.5.something. I had the same problem when trying to install the whole PD system as before. It would all seem to be working well until xjadeo right at the end. I would then get the dialogue of doom - leave puredyne without install, leave xjadeo without install 0mg 0 programs, is this ok y/n/? nothing to install. So I installed all the apps 1 by 1 and it seems all good so far. Not had a chance to check all the apps but the ones I have tried seem good. It took me a few days to notice 'single-user mode', which I am now using. Multi-mode seemed to not let me access anything much and was driving me crazy, not having necessary permissions. I have been booting in as Root in single-user (I know it's bad form) but access atm is better, certainly 'til I know what I'm doing a bit more. Also root is the only way I get the PD look and menu's etc. Much happier now anyway, I can get back to making music with these top tools. Hats off to you all, once more, Jbz P.S. I'm off to enter the hideous world of "tuning your system for audio/jack". Wish me luck --- [email protected] irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne
