Saturday, January 7, 2012

Fedora Satanic!

Just a port of Ubuntu SE to Fedora....
Just 2 wallpapers and no KDE themes though....
satanic-icon-themes-666.7-1.noarch.rpm
satanic-wallpapers-666.5-1.noarch.rpm
satanic-sounds-666.7-1.noarch.rpm
satanic-plymouth-theme-666.8-1.noarch.rpm
satanic-gnome-themes-666.8-1.noarch.rpm
light-themes-0.1.6.5-1.noarch.rpm
AS A WARNING!! THESE DON'T ALL WORK!!!
PLEASE DONT COMPLAIN!
the icon theme, the sounds, and the wallpapers work.... but the rest are *STILL BROKEN*

Thursday, December 22, 2011

"Tango Studio Karmasura (Lucid Lynx 10.04)", Fedora, JACK, ALSA, and Pulse

Never, EVER install Pulse on a system that is intended to be used for sound editing and recording!
If you're on Fedora, there's an awesome page on making pulse work together with your audio configuration, JACK or not, here:
http://fedorasolved.org/Members/fenris02/pulseaudio-fixes-and-workarounds
If you have installed pulse, and want to use just ALSA, well.  just do this to remove pulse:

killall pulseaudio
sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio*
sudo apt-get install esound (if it says already installed, don't panic)

If it's still not working, do this:

sudo asoundconf
(it'll ask you some questions in the terminal.  Normally, you just have to say yes to everything)
asoundconf list
asoundconf set-default-device sound-card

replace "sound-card" with the sound device printed on the screen by "asoundconf list" that looks right, for example, dont pick one that looks like a random string of numbers.  If you have an intel card, youll get something like "ICH5"



In Fedora:

sudo yum remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio pulseaudio padevchooser pavumeter paprefs pavucontrol


and make a .asoundrc in your home directory that looks like this:


# For details, see http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Asoundrc
pcm.!default {
        type plug
        slave.pcm "dmixer"
}

# cat /proc/asound/cards to see which hardware device
pcm.dmixer  {
        type dmix
        ipc_key 1024
        slave {
                pcm "hw:0,0"
                period_time 0
                period_size 1024
                buffer_size 4096
                rate 44100
        }
        bindings {
                0 0
                1 1
        }
}

ctl.dmixer {
        type hw
        card 0
}


And you might as well add the CCRMA Repo because if you have gone this far, you might as well add all the sound design stuff.
After doing this, you should be able to use sound.