Setting up Ubuntu

[Inventor]

Hey folks, good news! I am posting to you from Linux! Ubuntu on my netbook to be exact. This is so cool. Now I need to poke around a bit and set things up. I take it i'll need jack and of course ChucK miniAudicle, then what software for streaming? Is there anything I can configure? I'd like to make the external monitor higher resolution, how do I do that? Any other advice?

[Kassen]

How about "VLS" for streaming? It's the streaming version of VLC player, not sure if that supports the protocol(s) you need.

I never used a second monitor with Ubuntu, doesn't System/preferences/Display cover this? I heard support for that was improved recently. You may also want to see whether there are proprietary drivers for your video card, then look at the settings for those.

[mrcold]

[Inventor]

OK thanks folks. Yes, Kas, I found the video settings. Next I need to find jack (the package manager does not have it) and figure out how to compile miniAudicle. I'll give IceCast a try, thanks mrcold.

[Inventor]

Alright, so I go to install ChucK and the installation instructions tell me a bunch of stuff about wxwidgets which my system does not have. I figure out how to download it and unzip it. Now I have several readme files and I don't know which one to read. What window manager does Ubuntu use by default. I know it's Gnome but there is no gnome readme.

Sorry, I may need a little help at firist but i'll get it going soon.

Les

[Antimon]

There is nothing easier than Ubuntu.When my grandmother set it up she just did sudo apt-get sz_awk2.3.rel and then xargs ls /dev/bidsk/[#-3] | stae > d.txt; ufw - /mnt/homenode! I mean that's all you have to do once you've done `wc /usr/share/rsrc/inod-c-grk.log` | cat - > /tmp/fs7.2.cq (of course).

Edit: I feel a need to add a smiley here:

/Stefan

[Inventor]

hahahahahha you smart aleck! Wise guy eh? Woob woob woob!

[pulsewidth]

I've been adding miniAudicle to a couple of machines lately so the list of packages to add is reasonably fresh in my head. Here we go..

For JACK:
libjack0 libjack0-dev libjackasynlibjackasyn-dev qjackctl(for a JACK config and connection GUI)

For WX Widgets
libwxbase2.6-0 libwxbase2.6-dev libwxgtk2.6-0 libwxgtk2.6-dev wx2.6-headers wx-common

For the actual building of miniAudicle
build-essentials flex byacc bison (one or two of these may be superfluous, but have not gotten in the way of anything)

for ChuCK
libsndfile1 libsndfile1-dev

Another thing to consider is that the current miniAudicle Linux package cantains a slightly older version of ChuCK (1.2.1.0 if memory serves). To use a newer ChuCK, download the 1.2.1.2 package and extract it in to the miniAudicle folder. Next, using the Nautilus filemanager, delete the ChuCK 1.2.1.0 folder and the folder simply labelled chuck(this is actually a link to the chuck 1.2.1.0 folder). Right-click on the chuck 1.2.1.2 folder and select 'Make Link' from the menu that appears. A new 'link to chuck 1.2.1.2' icon will appear. Rename this to 'chuck', again by right-clicking on the new link icon and selecting 'rename' from the menu.

At this point you should be ready to build miniAudicle. Open a terminal in the miniAudicle directory and type 'make linux-jack'. Your computer will now be building the program. If all goes well, a new folder 'wxw' will appear in the miniAudicle folder. Contained therein is the miniAudicle binary. Click it and commence to ChuCKing!

Hopefully I've left nothing out. Once again, this is off the top of my head-I didn't actually take notes(what a concept-actually documenting something...)

Good Luck!

[Inventor]

pulsewidth, thank you for all that help. to clarify, i use the package manager (or more specifically add/remove programs) to get all those packages, right?

[pulsewidth]

Yes you can use the Synaptic package manager to do all of that. The Add/Remove GUI doesn't show things like libraries and dev packages, though. It's there mostly so that you can add things like another text editor, or a media player- actual programs, not the bits you need to build them.
You can also to in from the command line, and it will save you from hunting down all the packages to select them in the GUI.

For the record:

[Inventor]

I get the following:

E: Couldn't find package libjack0-dev

What's up?

Les

[pulsewidth]

OOPS!
it's actually libjack-dev

Sorry!

[Inventor]

ok that works. now:

E: Couldn't find package build-essentials

[x_x]

I don't use ubuntu, but I'd recommend getting a package manager.

[pulsewidth]

like I said, this is mostly off the top of my head.

It's actually build-essential (no 's' at the end)

Sorry, Inventor. You might actually get this done despite my help...

[Inventor]

ok pulsewidth, it got a lot further now it gives me a prompt which says:

80% [42 Libqt4-qt3support 773851/1366kB 56%]

and it wouldn't take any Y or N or Q so i ctrl-C's out of it. What's next?

[pulsewidth]

Did it just stop at that point or what ?
It looks like it's trying to get the QT toolkit files for qjackctl. Unfortunately qjackctl uses a different GUI toolkit that the majority of programs that are typically installed in Ubuntu, so when you ask to install qjackctl, apt (the underlying mechanism for package installation)
recognizes the dependencies and downloads them as well. When you try again, just let it percolate for a while. It should eventually grab all that you need.

BTW, what version of Ubuntu are we working with here, and what kind of netbook (the latter for my own curiosity. I've installed ubuntustudio on a MSI Wind...)

[Inventor]

yeah it just stopped but now i ran it again and it worked fine.

Not sure what to do next

Les

[pulsewidth]

Well, if it's done and didn't complain again, then it's time to build miniAudicle.

Open a Terminal (it's in the Accessories submenu on the Main menu).
Now, I'm not sure how your stuff might be set up, but if you've downloaded miniAudicle, it ended up in either your home directory, or your Desktop. I also believe that you've already unzipped that miniAudicle package, correct ?

In the terminal, type pwd. This will tell you what directory you are in.
You will likely be in /home/Inventor, or whetever you've entered as your username. if you are indeed in /home/<your_username>, then type ls. This will list the contents of the directory you're in. If you see
miniAudicle-0.1.3.8 listed, type cd miniAudicle-0.1.3.8 to change directories. Once you are in the miniAudicle directory (type pwd again to confirm) you can type make linux-jack and the build process will start. Alternately, you can update ChuCK as I described in my first post.

[Inventor]

OK pulsewidth, that's great and it seems to have worked, but I don't see ChucK in any pulldown menus. How do i run it?

[pulsewidth]

In the miniAudicle-0.1.3.8 folder there will be a newly created folder called wxw. Within this folder is the miniAudicle binary. There are two ways to run it:
Command-line (make sure you are inthe wxw directory)
./miniAudicle

From Nautilus:
Click your way in to the miniAudicle folder and simply doule-click the
miniAudicle icon.

But, before you even start miniAudicle, you need to start JACK.
Fire up JACK Control from the menu to start up qjackctl. Click the setup button on the GUI. For a typical netbook using Intel HDA chipset the following settings should be OK, but if anyone has found some better settings, then I welcome their input:

Frames/period : 128
Sample Rate : 48000 (Important for Intel HDA)
Periods/Buffer : 3 (also important)

Make these changes and Save and OK. Now start JACK by clicking the Start button. If all is well, then the little display should show Started, but It probably won't. Go back to Setup and unclick the Realtime checkbox. This will only be applicable if you're using a realtime kernel, which is installed with Ubuntu Studio.
After unchecking Realtime click Save and OK again, then return to the main GUI and click start. You should then see some items in the Connections window. Now you can start miniAudicle. When you start miniAudicle and fire up the Virtual Machine, you'll see Chuck objects in the qjackctl Connections window. They should auto-connect to the system objects, so you should be ready to go...(slowly getting there. Thanks for your patience)

[Antimon]

pulsewidth and thanks to you and Les for that great rundown on how to install Chuck! I've thought some about putting chuck in on my Asus EEE running Ubuntu - this is further inspiration.

/Stefan

P.S. sorry about the "episode" earlier - this work assignment with 4-hours-a-day commuting as part of the package is starting to get on my nerves...

[pulsewidth]

Thanks for the welcome!
Hopefully the info I've provided is reasonably helpful and accurate.
The next step would be installation of a realtime kernel and some other tweaks, but those topics are documented in many places, such as the Ubuntu Forums and the Linux Audio Users (LAU) mailing list, and I don't want to be too redundant...

[wmonk]

For those who don't like to compile it yourself, try the Fedora distribution with Planet CCRMA. If you like I'll post a tutorial to set up a small linux musical workstation within 45 minutes!

[BobTheDog]

And they wonder why Microsoft did do well