[Fedora-music-list] Getting started?

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 19:37 +0930, Ant wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 09:50 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 16:39 +0200, Frode Petersen wrote:
> > > Ant skrev:
> > > > Ive been on this list for a while, and have noted that its been somewhat
> > > > quiet. So i've just googled Ardour seeing it mentioned and it looks
> > > > great! Ive kept googling, and there seems to be a hole where FC6 is.
> > > > Like many probably I currently run FC6, and according to most references
> > > > up to FC5 is supported, although there is a couple of mentions of FC7. 
> > > > 
> > > > Do the packages exist for FC6, and if so, where? Can anyone recommend a
> > > > couple of good apps to take a look at? 
> > > > 
> > >
> > > Try this repository:
> > > 
> > > http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetccrma/6/x86_64/
> > > http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetccrma/6/i386/
> > > 
> > > The link to the hompage:
> > > http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/
> > 
> > Docs out of date, see:
> > http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrmanews/2006-November/000047.html
> > 
> > Basically install "planetccrma-core" and you will get a realtime kernel,
> > irq ordering script, pam with realtime access enabled by default, etc,
> > etc (if you need/want low latency you need all that). Then
> > "planetccrma-apps" will get you most of the applications from both
> > Extras and Planet CCRMA[*]. 
> > 
> > [*] and "planetccrma-menus" will add a nice hierarchical menu with
> > sound/music apps nicely categorized, at least the ones coming from
> > Planet CCRMA. 
> 
> Wow thanks heaps for that, heaps to play with!
> 
> I just did:
> 
> rpm -ivh
> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetccrma/6/i386/planetccrma-repo-1.0-3.fc6.ccrma.noarch.rpm
> 
> followed by:
> 
> yum install planetccrma-core planetccrma-apps planetccrma-menus
> 
> resulting in:
> 
> Transaction Summary
> =============================================================================
> Install    270 Package(s)         
> Update       3 Package(s)         
> Remove       0 Package(s)        
> 
> Exactly what I needed to know! :)
> 
> ... 10 mins later...
> 
> Bugger:
> 
> Transaction Check Error:
>   file /usr/share/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/gtk_ardour.mo conflicts
> between attempted installs of ardour2-2.0-1.fc6.ccrma and
> ardour-0.99.3-8.fc6
>   file /usr/share/locale/el_GR/LC_MESSAGES/gtk_ardour.mo conflicts
> between attempted installs of ardour2-2.0-1.fc6.ccrma and
> ardour-0.99.3-8.fc6
>   file /usr/share/locale/el_GR/LC_MESSAGES/libardour.mo conflicts
> between attempted installs of ardour2-2.0-1.fc6.ccrma and
> ardour-0.99.3-8.fc6
>   file /usr/share/locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/gtk_ardour.mo conflicts
> between attempted installs of ardour2-2.0-1.fc6.ccrma and
> ardour-0.99.3-8.fc6
>   file /usr/share/locale/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/gtk_ardour.mo conflicts
> between attempted installs of ardour2-2.0-1.fc6.ccrma and
> ardour-0.99.3-8.fc6
>   file /usr/share/locale/it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/gtk_ardour.mo conflicts
> between attempted installs of ardour2-2.0-1.fc6.ccrma and
> ardour-0.99.3-8.fc6
>   file /usr/share/locale/it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/libardour.mo conflicts
> between attempted installs of ardour2-2.0-1.fc6.ccrma and
> ardour-0.99.3-8.fc6
>   file /usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/gtk_ardour.mo conflicts
> between attempted installs of ardour2-2.0-1.fc6.ccrma and
> ardour-0.99.3-8.fc6
>   file /usr/share/locale/pt_PT/LC_MESSAGES/gtk_ardour.mo conflicts
> between attempted installs of ardour2-2.0-1.fc6.ccrma and
> ardour-0.99.3-8.fc6
>   file /usr/share/locale/ru_RU/LC_MESSAGES/gtk_ardour.mo conflicts
> between attempted installs of ardour2-2.0-1.fc6.ccrma and
> ardour-0.99.3-8.fc6
>   file /usr/share/locale/ru_RU/LC_MESSAGES/libardour.mo conflicts
> between attempted installs of ardour2-2.0-1.fc6.ccrma and
> ardour-0.99.3-8.fc6
>   file /usr/share/locale/sv_SE/LC_MESSAGES/gtk_ardour.mo conflicts
> between attempted installs of ardour2-2.0-1.fc6.ccrma and
> ardour-0.99.3-8.fc6
>   file /usr/share/locale/sv_SE/LC_MESSAGES/libardour.mo conflicts
> between attempted installs of ardour2-2.0-1.fc6.ccrma and
> ardour-0.99.3-8.fc6
> 
> But thats what the current thread is about, having both versions? 

For some reason yum barfs on installing both, but yum installing them
separately succeeds, so for now do:

  yum install ardour
  yum install planetccrma-apps

> I also
> fear my video drivers will break with the rt kernel since I use the
> nvidia binary packages from livna. I can fix this by hand with nvidias
> installer, but I guess thats the problem with closed source stuff and
> mixing and matching from different repos.

I think some users have had success with rebuilding the glue layer on
nvidia's driver with the Planet CCRMA rt kernel but I have not done it
myself (you'll need to install the proper kernel-rt-devel package for
that to work). 

-- Fernando