Csound and its Python API. That's why it's there.
As far as I am concerned, having developed audio apps for
Linux for several years, Alsa is much better and more reliable
than OSS.
Victor
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Hmm, if there are problems with Csound and
MIDI (of which I am not aware), we need to fix
them. Can you provide an example?
Victor
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more users from the Csound
community involved in the OLPC effort, so that they can
educate everyone in the ins and outs of the software.
Victor
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to run it: MIDI, OSC, API event calls, etc.,
are also possible.
If anything we should promote better standards than limit
ourselves to a very poor one.
Victor
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more. If
so, drop me a note.
Victor
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trying to say anything else. Good luck.
Victor
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On Jan 20, 2008 3:27 AM
.
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Didn't you know that Python
didn't know Microsoft and Windows were going to be there. So why all the
effort if in the end a closed OS is going to be used?
Is this true?
Victor
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, but the ogg filenames do not get passed
to csound.
(/usr/share/activities...)
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I traced the memorize bug and fixed it in games.py. I also
optmised the csound code in csoundserver.py. I am not sure
who needs to get this code. Could he/she get in touch with me
privately?I'll give more details then.
Thanks
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. Examining the csd
tamtam generated might give us a clue.
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New packages have made into debian testing. You might want to try
those
considers going Windows...
I sincerely hope this does not come to pass...
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I'd really like it if we get the 'straight' csound package updated,
too, as the software will benefit from more official exposure.
I hope we can improve things and make the whole process
smoother. At least now I don't need to be sponsored anymore,
so it should be simpler.
Victor
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I used to be able to write to the logs using
self.logger = sugar.logger.logging.getLogger()
self.logger.debug(hey)
But now none of the messages appear in the logs. Why? Where are they
now? How can I write to the logs from my activity?
Thanks
Victor
I think the reason for tam tam not opening in joyride is that it expects
its files to be in /usr/share/activities/* and not in /home/olpc/activities/*
Perhaps fixed in later versions?
Victor
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In fact, if I put some symlinks in /usr/share/Activities pointing to the
installed
TamTam, I get it to load and run.
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Just tested here
$ modprobe snd-pcm-oss
$ cat /dev/dsp /dev/dsp
and I get lovely mic-speaker parrot feedback.
I guess it's just about adding this modprobe line to the init scripts
VL
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is not ideal.
If there are plans to support jack (or pulseaudio), I could do some tests
and add functionality (eg. a patcher). The TamTam team also needs to
be informed as they might want to convert Clooper to support jack (or
pulseaudio).
Regards
Victor
Also: there is a libportaudio.so.2 there too, why? Who uses it?
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Subject: jackd on OLPC?
Noting a couple of lines for jackuser group in limits.conf made me search
around
Ah. Well, since it is there, then I might as well test it and
then report my findings. Jack is seen as more specialised/pro
than pulseaudio by the linux audio guys.
Regards
Victor
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Thanks; I have added a few extra bits.
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victor wrote:
I am mostly in the dark
when it comes to these things
are not caught by it.
Any clues very much appreciated
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On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:52:59PM +0100, victor wrote:
I'm trying to get my head round how rainbow
,
because you will never play background music and compose
with TAM TAM at the same time (or not at least now, unless
you have two soundcards in the system).
So as far as this discussion is concerned, your worries are
unfounded.
Victor
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,
priority);
}
}
This works fine on the terminal for user olpc (given the correct
limits.conf).
Thanks
Victor
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Aren't these priorities the same ones set in /etc/security/limits.conf?
Or are they set by other means?
Victor
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Is that documented? I don't see it in man page. I can try it, if
I have a code example (says there it does not take a priority
value, so is it just a matter of setting the policy?)
Victor
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,
I am actually very pleased that we can discuss the XO's
RT performance. In fact, if we tune this right, we will
place the OS (and the laptop) in a position of advantage
against its competitors in relation to media applications.
Victor
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with larger buffers. But in any case, the target is not the MIDI app,
that was just the test case, because it was simpler than hooking
a keyboard and playing along.
Victor
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(the names of distros in
Koji) related to OS versions?
4. How do build numbers, stable/joyride, relate to OS versions?
I need to make sure I get this all clear in my head.
Thanks a lot
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Thanks everyone for their quick and comprehensive responses.
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On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 06:18:47AM
Obviously not for diabetics! :)
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Watch out
have some ideas, but they have
not been implemented and tested.
Regads
Victor
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, then I'll see if I can get the
network client working (not sure of the issues involved, but I'll try).
I am keeping a record of some this work at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sound
In the near future I will test pulseaudio too, then we'll have an idea of
future possibilities.
Regards
Victor
in
setting up the subset build.
We would welcome, very much, Barry's input in
Csound 5 development, if he'd like to be involved.
Victor
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Csound supports OSC, but I have to check whether we are including it
on olpcsound. The reason we might have left it out is that I have heard
through
the grapevine that OSC was a no-no as it breaks the security model.
So I suppose I should ask directly, is OSC permitted?
Victor
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a minimal server written in Python
and issuing Python commands as string data)
5. line events at stdin (a little awkward)
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No, you have to run it with a command-line option and then use
aconnect I suppose. I need to check how to do soft connections,
as I am used to just connecting straight to hardware .
Victor
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for Python and will try putting
together an example, which should be easily translated.
And yes, it is possible to launch a Csound process to listen in for MIDI in
a virmidi connection.
Victor
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Cc
Well, I am sorry I did not know the situation, so that is why
I asked. However, I did not ask about who was laid off, but
just wanted to know who is taking care of what now. At some
point, this will need to be divulged, I expect?
Victor
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list. Are these obsolete too?
And another thing: olpc-update is not to be used anymore,
or is it still on?
Any clarification greatly appreciated!
Victor
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in Sugar's neighboorhood?
I opened the terminal and set them to the same essid but still no sign.
Also, should they not see other AdHoc machines around them (say
other windows, linux, OSX).
Suggestions?
Victor
Victor Lazzarini
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this
behaviour?
thanks
Victor
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would this be the reason?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/pygtk/+bug/27112
import gtk Changing the default encoding? Funny
I am not getting it on my other fedora systems (perhaps
because they are one version behind?).
Victor
At 14:23 04/10/2007, Victor Lazzarini wrote:
Just to add a little to say
|| *tmp != (char) 0) {
synterr(csound, Str(numeric syntax '%s'), s);
return 0;
}
}
(...)
}
Somehow the 'strtod' conversion is getting it wrong.
But why only after 'import gtk', I cannot understand.
Victor
At 13:12 04/10/2007, Victor Lazzarini wrote:
(OLPC build
?
thanks
Victor
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yes, it's true, but at the moment, I can't
see a substitute for strtod(), and we can't
put a dependency on gtk or Python in the Csound
engine. I can't find an ascii_strtod(). Would
it work if we added a call to setlocale() just
before the call to strtod()?
Victor
This really needs to be fixed
Is there a password for user olpc? I set
one for it to be able to ssh to the XO, but
it seems to have upset the X server and on
reboot I could not get the graphics (flashed
in and then failed).
Thanks
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Hello everyone,
when debugging an activity how does one get stderr/stdout
messages from Python in sugar. It is quite hard to debug blindly, not
knowing what errors Python is spewing out.
Thanks
Victor
Victor Lazzarini
Music Technology Laboratory
Music Department
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Hi everyone,
does anyone know if is there a way to retrieve the
activity bundle top directory name under python/sugar?
Thanks
Victor
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Not in build 602 I presume (as it does not work here). Will
upgrade and test (but Dan's solution works fine).
Victor
At 17:13 11/10/2007, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
On Oct 11, 2007, at 15:59 , Dan Williams wrote:
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 14:29 +0100, Victor Lazzarini wrote:
Hi everyone,
does anyone
I have found that a USB ethernet card works very
well.
Victor
Hi,
Another newbie question: is the machine supposed to
be able to
connect to an ordinary wireless network? It finds
my router name
(and indeed all the other networks alive locally),
and asks for my
WEP key
E-mail
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#2
#3
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If any developers don't have their SSH2 keys on the web, please attach
them
Is there a dial widget in Sugar? I don't think GTK offers
one (I never found it), although writing one in C seems
easy (but how to include in the XO builds?).
In addition, is there a reference for GUI components in
Sugar, above and beyond the ones provided by GTK?
Thanks
Victor
Victor
Is there a dial widget in Sugar? I don't think GTK offers
one (I never found it), although writing one in C seems
easy (but how to include in the XO builds?).
In addition, is there a reference for GUI components in
Sugar, above and beyond the ones provided by GTK?
Thanks
Victor
Victor
Hi everyone,
what is the type expected by Activity.set_canvas(). Is there a
general-purpose canvas widget for structured graphics in
sugar (a la Tkinter canvas) ? Where should I be looking for
reference documentation?
Thanks
Victor
Victor Lazzarini
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/2006/07/25/writing-a-custom-widget-using-pygtk/
but the code wouldn't work. Are there others?
Thanks
Victor
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goocanvas seems to be what I was looking for.
Thanks
At 16:13 13/03/2008, Jim Gettys wrote:
Sayamindu,
I think Victor is asking for something at a higher level of abstraction;
particularly what goes by the name of a canvas in various toolkits.
I thought we were using goocanvas, or something
an activity it would this variable too.
But os.getenv(SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT) fails. Could someone
indicate how to retrieve the activity datastore?
Victor
Victor Lazzarini
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. But is this a problem?
Or should I just ignore it?
Victor
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Not to worry, I can access the path using
activity.get_activity_root(), as pointed out by Simon,
so I am OK.
Thanks
At 12:59 14/03/2008, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Victor Lazzarini
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I am trying to work out how to access the correct
through a software bus channel.
But I have prepared the 5.08 RPM to run oggplay, so it should
work when this is fixed.
Thanks everyone
Victor
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you find more appropriate, to whoever
is not happy and thinks he/she can make a better job of
it.
Victor
At 16:05 30/06/2008, Jim Gettys wrote:
I think Victor would be very happy to have a single spec file that
covers both the subset and full csound builds
- Jim
Hello everyone,
I need to get a screenshot of an activity and I am wondering what is
the best way:
1. using sugar-jhbuild on fedora: the only problem here is that the
widgets have all wrong sizes (how to fix this?)
2. using the XO: I have no idea how to print the screen.
Thanks!
Victor
Thanks everyone, I got the screenshot I needed using method 2.
Victor
At 16:12 28/07/2008, Bastien wrote:
Hello Victor,
Victor Lazzarini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I need to get a screenshot of an activity and I am wondering what is
the best way:
1. using sugar-jhbuild on fedora
... to connect the XO to a projector?
Are there USB vga/etc cards known to work to with the XO?
Thanks
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internet because it uses
VPN and (unless someone shows me how to do otherwise) I can't use
it with the XO (but I am happy with just using ethernet).
Any suggestions welcome. Thanks for your earlier replies to my other
queries.
Dr Victor Lazzarini
Senior Lecturer
Music Technology Laboratory, Music
sugar find the new activities. I was trying to look
into Bert's script to see if there was a trick to make sugar see
newly installed
activities, but I saw nothing obvious.
Thanks
Victor
At 13:55 31/07/2008, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
Victor,
please refer to Walter's draft for the updated Sugar
Not sure which logs. I can see all the installed activities but
none of my custom ones.
Victor
At 14:51 01/08/2008, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
Victor Lazzarini wrote:
Now, another bit of info I can't find in Walter's minimalist draft
for the updated
Sugar is how access newly created activities
I know where the logs are. I am not sure which of the logs Marco
was referring to.
At 15:13 01/08/2008, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
On 01.08.2008, at 16:01, Victor Lazzarini wrote:
Not sure which logs. I can see all the installed activities but
none of my custom ones.
Then your custom activity
Hi all,
a question for the OS people: what is the level of preemption
in the olpc supplied kernel?
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get a solid performance. I think this
bit of scheduler code could be moved to the csound library so that
it can be used by sugar activities as well. I'll see what I can do.
Victor Lazzarini
Music Technology Laboratory
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if activities using csound could take
advantage of this code, because it seems to help
performance. We could set up group permissions
for that in /etc/security/limits.conf
What are your thoughts (esp. Deepak and Daniel D)?
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with the activity,
but it will work on the terminal for user olpc.
Any clues are very welcome, thanks
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correctly). But somehow
activities (launched by rainbow?) are UID 10002 which seems not
to follow the rules of pam .
Victor
At 15:43 14/08/2008, Jim Gettys wrote:
A typical solution is, when you are about to start the process, invoke a
different (very small, so it can be audited) process that can
Hello everyone,
I have an A-board in my office which I would like to bring back to
life if possible. But on booting, I get the message
Evaluation period has expired, halting
Validate from 05/16/2006 to 08/23/2006.
Any suggestions?
Victor Lazzarini
Music Technology Laboratory
Music Department
is no good. Where can I find a usable one?
Victor
At 16:25 18/08/2008, you wrote:
Victor Lazzarini wrote:
Hello everyone,
I have an A-board in my office which I would like to bring back to
life if possible. But on booting, I get the message
Evaluation period has expired, halting
Validate from 05
There is no CsoundServer anymore; we use Csound as a librarythrough its API. If
anyone wants some help on how to use it, toplay MIDI or anything else, he/she
can talk to me, privately oron this list. I'm away to ICMC at the moment, so
replies mightbe slow. But I'll give as much help as I
yes, that is possible. I will provide an example as soon as Iam back at work in
Ireland.Victor- Original Message -From: John Maloney [EMAIL
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questionsTo: victor [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: Bert Freudenberg [EMAIL
if they are the ones to work for now, as far as audio
development is concerned).
I am very sorry for all those leaving and wish all the best for their future.
Thanks
Victor Lazzarini
Music Technology Laboratory
Music Department
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Thanks. Walter has kindly replied to me already, so it
looks like sugar labs is my destination. Hope to be able to
clear up all my marking by the end of next week and by
then I think will also know where I actually fit into this
new scheme of things.
I'm happy to be back.
Regards
Victor
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on the same sources as Csound5, with
less components and dependencies. It is just a build option (for scons).
Victor
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