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Robert Persson wrote:

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> Robert Persson wrote:

>> Folderol wrote:

>>> I am very surprised by this. I use Rosegarden all the time, and

>>> can't remember the last time it crashed.

>>> What version of Rosegarden did you try? It's up to 1.5 now.

>>> What distro are you using.

>> It turns out I'm on version 1.4.0, which is what ships with ubuntu

>>  Feisty. Gutsy, the beta of which came out a few days ago, has

>> version 1.5.1, but it depends on some kde4 library that isn't in

>> Feisty so installing it would mean risking messing up a lot of

>> other stuff. I'm debating whether to risk an upgrade—many who have

>> done so are happy by the look of it, but a few have had problems—or

>>  struggle on with what I've got for another few weeks. I need a

>> sequencer pretty badly so I may just hold onto my nostrils and take

>>  the jump.

>>

>> Robert

> I took the plunge and upgraded to gutsy, only to discover that there

> was still some cruft hanging around from when I tried to install a

> home-rolled jack over the packaged one. I thought I'd corrected

> everything by reinstalling the packages, but obviously I hadn't.

> Anyway, I deleted every jackd and jacklib executable and binary I

> could find, then reinstalled those packages, and now Rosegarden seems

> to be working fine. Still can't get muse working properly though.

>

> As for the rest of gutsy beta, I'm having suspend and hibernate

> problems, but other than that it's working fine at the moment.

Firstly, it sounds as if you may have hardware issues, or possibly an

ACPI problem. Adding acpi=off to the kernel line of the appropriate

stanza in /boot/grub/menu.lst will disable it on boot. This may or may

not help depending on what the problem actually is.
Secondly, Rosegarden works better on a kernel which is tuned for audio

use (i.e. which includes realtime patches and uses the faster clock

speed). If you're using vanilla ubuntu, I'm not entirely surprised to

hear that some audio applications are sub-optimal. I would have thought

that you'd need to follow the set-up suggested by UbuntuStudio, probably

fairly carefully.
While rolling your own packages is laudable it leaves you rather out on

your own if you encounter problems, these days I recommend sticking with

the available packages from the appropriate multimedia sub-distro for

best results.
Thus:

Ubuntu -> UbuntuStudio

Debian -> 64 Studio

Fedora -> PlanetCCRMA

SUSE -> JAD

and so on.
cheers,
tim

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