[Fedora-music-list] Media Production SIG and Rosegarden

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 03:40 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> Hello everyone. I needed Rosegarden for a class, and since CCRMA isn't
> built for FC5 and x86_64, I attempted to build the CCRMA source package
> myself. And discovered I needed the latest Rosegarden to build with GCC
> 4.1, which changed to scons, which has some icky bugs, one of which I
> fixed with a patch from Fernando I dug up on a mailing list, then I
> discovered a bug in mock, etc... And since I went through all the effort
> I submitted it to Extras.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189322
> 
> I did a lot of googling trying to find out if there was any activity as
> far as merging CCRMA into Extras and found nothing recent. (It appears
> this list was created shortly *after* I looked...) I had intended to
> email Fernando directly but never got around to it. Heh.

Oh well... :-) Too bad we did not coordinate efforts for this... I have
rosegarden4 for fc5 now. 

> I could use some advice on what to do about the timing problem... (Been
> meaning to take that up on Rosegarden's mailing list...)

You are using just the regular Fedora kernels, right? They have HZ=250
which is regretful for this type of work (you mention that in
bugzilla)... the Planet CCRMA kernels still using HZ=1000 :-p

I tried booting into 2096_FC5 and yes, I get the warning. Other things I
tried: setting it to rtc in rosegarden and upping the user frequency to
1024 (there is a /sys thing you can use to do this). The first time I
tried to start rosegarden after that the system froze solid (reset
button was the only way out). After rebooting rosegarden starts, but
still issues the warning - but according to the messages it prints it
appears to have switched to using rtc. Maybe we could do timing tests to
confirm the resolution... I guess this is something to ask questions
about in the rosegarden list. One thing to note is that the rtc
preference (at least) is sticky, that is the next time I start
rosegarden it shows that. Still, the messages printed suggest that
rosegarden is first using "auto", and then switching to rtc.

> I took it upon myself to slap up a quickie SIG page on the wiki:
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/MediaProduction
> 
> I chose the name Media Production. Media allows us to include video as
> well (Cinelerra). Production emphasizes that distribution and
> consumption (patented codecs, media players, PVRs, streaming servers...)
> do not fall directly under the SIG's focus.
> 
> So does "Media Production SIG" sound good to everyone?

Sounds good to me. That has always been the focus of Planet CCRMA (ie:
creating content). 

> I've been doing my best to hurry up the review of jack. Its finals
> week(s) so I'm busy, sleep deprived, and stressed out, however one of my
> finals *is* for Digital Synth & Composition, so I can justify spending
> at least some time on audio stuff. :)

Yep, jack is in the critical path of a lot of packages. 
-- Fernando