YES, its is!!! How could you do any audio work and not know about Jack?
If you plan to do any, *any* audio production, you need jack. Unless your doing some audacity thing... :-( You should do a clean install... On 11/22/07, D. Michael McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 16 November 2007, Christopher Stamper wrote: > > > It is definately best to do a clean install. Reformat the disk and > > everything. You'll be very glad you did. > > Good advice for people who don't like adventure, but it isn't turning out > as > badly as the reams of help me messages had me fearing it would. > > I don't think this would have worked using the graphical frontends. I've > had > to dist-upgrade and -f install I've lost track of how many times. I had > to > hack /etc/init.d/timidity to just exit 0 immediately in order to free up a > log jam of suspended packages, and then I had to resort to actually doing > (wince): > > $ sudo dpkg -i --force-overwrite > kitchensync_4%3a3.5.7enterprise20070926-0ubuntu2_i386.deb > > to clear up the final logjam. I don't know what Kitchen Sync is, but I > can > afford to break it if I just did. > > GNOME seems rather broken. I just created a disposable user to go look at > what Ubuntu Studio is supposed to look like, and GNOME came up with no > window > manager. Not very helpful. (The GIMP looks dramatically better in its > native environment. I wonder how I can make it look like that in KDE?) > > Also, I'm still running the same kernel I was on Feisty a few hours ago, > but > JACK won't start now. Well, let's try now that I finally got down to 0 > packages that need upgrading (after about three hours.) No. It's barfing > with some weird ass errors. > > A mess, but it looks like nothing critical is going to break. Except > JACK. > JACK isn't critical for Ubuntu Studio users is it? > -- > D. Michael McIntyre > > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users > -- Christopher Stamper [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tinyurl.com/39h3eg
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