I'm just curious, which interface do you have, and what are the problems? I also own a firewire card (fa-101), but use it mainly with debian squeeze and a rt kernel. It's working ok, but I didn't try (as far as I remember) with very low latencies. Will test again when I go back home.
2010/5/20, gusano <[email protected]>: > hi Lukasz > > yeah you're right. > sorry if I sound angry, it's just not the right moment (and day) for me > to screw everything up. > but no worry, I'm used to re-install it quickly ;) > > I just started using pure-dyne because it was the only linux distro with > which my FW soundcard worked out-of-the-box, alas it's not the case > anymore, that's why I experiment and end up with such a mess. > > again sorry for the noise, I'm gonna have a beer and use my > crappy-but-working usb card :) > > @Ricardo I'm giving up for now, thanks for the aptitude trick, I forgot > about that > > cheers, > _y > > > > On 20/05/10 16:44, Lukasz Jastrzebski wrote: >> Man, you have just screwed your system, I guess. >> This is exactly how the dependiences work ;) You cannot use things >> without jackd - this is why it wants to remove any problematic pieces >> prior to any installation :D >> First - don't hurry. When you will ruin your system, you will probably >> loose more time. Read manuals before typing anything into console. >> Secondly, if avaliable, try to download the package by hand and >> install it via some primitive tool like gdebi or even dpkg - this is >> handy kind of swiss army knife for packages. >> Reinstalling whole this mess also should be easy - as long, as there >> are aptitude and networking tools still installed, don't be affraid of >> reinstalling things. You should have packages cashed somewhere anyway, >> so download should not take too long. >> After you rescue or reinstall your things - don't mess with different >> package tools, keep your things clean and do not experiment - cause >> this is really tricky to experiment in depency-based package managed >> systems. Use one tool only - aptitude is great, or triple- or >> quadruple-check if the policies in the tools you intend to use match >> exactly. >> Any Ubuntu-based system REALLY is immune to any fine-tuning without >> PhD in ubuntology. Use Slack or Arch if you want to play with the >> system in the Linux way. I was able to delete my whole /usr (the place >> where the software goes) and have system up and running in repairable >> state. >> >> You could always keep the newer version of your favourite soft >> somewhere without installing it by package, and just run it from where >> it is. >> >> I really hate Ubuntu family, it smells like unusable blasphemy for me >> since forever, and, being moderately experienced Linux user, I found >> Ubuntu finally always breaks itself. ;) >> >> So have fun, esp. if you are learning the hard way. This is only the >> time and the software - you have both i hope, there is no need to >> loose health too. >> >> Cheers, >> Luke >> >> W dniu 2010-05-20 16:07, gusano pisze: >>> ok, I removed jackd via 'apt-remove'. >>> now if I want to *reinstall* it, aptitude wants to *remove* the >>> following packages: >>> >>> amsynth, audacious, audacity, avidemux, avidemux-plugins, chuck, >>> csladspa, csound, darkice, dssi-host-jack, ecasound, fluxus, ..., >>> libjack-dev, libjack0, libjack0.100.0-0, libportaudio2, all pd libs, >>> puredata, ..., vlc-plugin-jack, wsynth-dssi, zynaddsubfx. >>> >>> WTF ? >>> >>> _y >>> >>> >>> On 20/05/10 15:49, gusano wrote: >>>> hi Ricardo >>>> >>>> thanks for the suggestion but I'm afraid it's a bit too tricky for me >>>> right now.. >>>> >>>> what I don't get is: why nearly all audio apps installed in pure:dyne >>>> are dependencies from jackd ? (just an example) >>>> I would love being able to 'apt-get remove jackd' and aptitude would >>>> remove *only* technical dependencies (and not Ardour or SuperCollider >>>> packages...) >>>> >>>> cheers, >>>> _y >>>> >>>> >>>> On 20/05/10 15:14, Ricardo G. Herdt wrote: >>>>> In debian, I'd fetch the sources from unstable (having the proper >>>>> deb-src line in /etc/sources.list) with ' apt-get source jackd ' and >>>>> create a deb package from them using ' dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b >>>>> -us -uc '. Then I'd simply replace the installed jackd with it, >>>>> without uninstalling anything. You could try the same with sources >>>>> from newer versions from ubuntu. Just a suggestion. >>>>> >>>>> 2010/5/20, gusano<[email protected]>: >>>>>> hello >>>>>> >>>>>> while trying to fix my FW sound issues (again...), I'd like to >>>>>> uninstall >>>>>> jackd and libffado to compile newer versions. >>>>>> >>>>>> problem is, if I do that aptitude wants to remove (nearly) all >>>>>> packages >>>>>> from my system ! >>>>>> >>>>>> is there a way to remove *only one* package ? >>>>>> >>>>>> cheers, >>>>>> _y >>>>>> >>>>>> --- >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> http://identi.ca/group/puredyne >>>>>> irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> --- >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://identi.ca/group/puredyne >>>>> irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> --- >>> [email protected] >>> http://identi.ca/group/puredyne >>> irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >> >> >> --- >> [email protected] >> http://identi.ca/group/puredyne >> irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >> > > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne > --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
