[PlanetCCRMA] fc8 install

[Juan I Reyes]

Hi Oded,

Glad things are working a bit better now.

I would try to use Qjackctl more than the jack command because the
latter is very sensitive to switches or options. The message window on
Qjackctl gives a lot messages which I disregard. 

As far as Pd, Jack (plus the Quattro), I have not been able to obtain
more than two channels. Probably there is some memory management issue
in the Pd-Jack interface (but I am not sure). In a more optimistic way
without Jack Pd looks ALSA as two interfaces which is a huge annoyance
on the Quattro but used to work several Fedoras ago.

In order to get syntax highlighting on Emacs I have the following line
on my dot_emacs:

;; turn on font-lock mode
(global-font-lock-mode t)

If you don't get automatic syntax highlighting when you open a Lisp or
Scheme file you might need to set the 'auto-mode-alist' variable.

  --* Juan

On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 09:02 -0700, Oded Ben-Tal wrote:
> thanks.
> 1) Jack - I was able to get jack to start with 4 out channels. But it's 
> not stable - for some reason if I open a big pd patch (that opens and 
> plays fine with pd -oss) pd and qjackctl crash, and with some other of my 
> patches the system just grinds to a halt (I just waited 45 minutes, while 
> the machine kept churning the HD untill I gave up and rebooted). Either my 
> 5 year old machine doesn't have enought memory, or else there are some 
> major bugs in jack (or pd's communication with jack?). But these seem to 
> be beyond nando's control.
> Thanks anyway.
> 
> 2) emacs - slime cm/clm working. I couldn't figure out how to get syntax 
> highlighting though. I do have an old file (Rick's) that contains cm/clm 
> keywords and I'm trying to load that but it doesn't seem to work.
> 
> So thanks, and hopefully I won't be running  into more problems when I 
> start using the system musically...
> 
> thanks
> Oded
> 
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