Re: debian and lilypond 2.12

2009-06-07 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Gauvain Pocentek wrote: Hi all, On 06/07/2009 03:59 PM, Gilles Filippini wrote: really don't want to take over the package without interaction with Thomas. But I'm definitly interesting in helping out with this package, maybe in a team as Vincent Bernat suggested in an other mail. Maybe

Re: realtime kernel for Debian

2009-06-04 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Uwe Kleine-König wrote: Hi, I was wondering about how far are we with implementing a RT kernel in Debian... Some progress here? Would be nice. The patch I created that "fits" on Debian's vanilla kernel creates conflicts on the sources with the Debian patches. I hope to be abl

Re: realtime kernel for Debian

2009-05-12 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Uwe Kleine-König wrote: Hello, I was wondering about how far are we with implementing a RT kernel in Debian... Some progress here? Would be nice. The patch I created that "fits" on Debian's vanilla kernel creates conflicts on the sources with the Debian patches. I hope to be able to c

Re: realtime kernel for Debian

2009-04-13 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Uwe Kleine-König wrote: Hello, I was wondering about how far are we with implementing a RT kernel in Debian... Some progress here? Would be nice. The patch I created that "fits" on Debian's vanilla kernel creates conflicts on the sources with the Debian patches. I hope to be able to c

Re: realtime kernel for Debian

2009-04-10 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Uwe Kleine-König wrote: Hello, [your To: header was strange, maybe my mail reaches less recipents than your's] To get some progress here, I'm searching for a person who wants and is capable in filing a wishlist bug (with a patch vs. the package linux-2.6 Maybe providing a p

Re: why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing?

2009-03-31 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Felipe Sateler wrote: Grammostola Rosea wrote: Fabian Greffrath wrote: Grammostola Rosea schrieb: But that doesn't really solve the problem imo. The problem is solved when Ardour in unstable hit testing and then stable after a while. Now it seems to be stuck in uns

Re: why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing?

2009-03-30 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Fabian Greffrath wrote: Grammostola Rosea schrieb: But that doesn't really solve the problem imo. The problem is solved when Ardour in unstable hit testing and then stable after a while. Now it seems to be stuck in unstable... You don't seem to understand the Debian release poli

Re: realtime kernel for Debian

2009-03-29 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Uwe Kleine-König wrote: Hello, I guess there are multimedia users out there who care much about a stable system, reproducible results and have to earn some money from their work - so they do not want to deal with unforseable changes. Please do not advertise testing as a release which is read

Re: realtime kernel for Debian

2009-03-29 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Grammostola Rosea wrote: Andreas Tille wrote: On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Cassiel wrote: debian stable aims to production servers, That's wrong. Debian stable aims at production systems. If your arguing would be true I wonder why stable contains applications like Openoffice.org or audio pl

Re: realtime kernel for Debian

2009-03-29 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Andreas Tille wrote: On Sat, 28 Mar 2009, Cassiel wrote: debian stable aims to production servers, That's wrong. Debian stable aims at production systems. If your arguing would be true I wonder why stable contains applications like Openoffice.org or audio players or ... IMO multimedia us

Re: why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing?

2009-03-29 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Free Ekanayaka wrote: Hi Vincent, |--==> On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:31:38 +0100, Vincent Danjean said: VD> Grammostola Rosea wrote: >>I read this on the Debian multimedia mailinglist: >>>Unfortunately lenny was already freezed by that time, and although >>>

Re: realtime kernel for Debian

2009-03-28 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Adrian Knoth wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:37:37PM +0100, Grammostola Rosea wrote: Why only in 64studio and not in plain Debian? What's good for Debian is good for us :-) but the Debian project may not want to tweak the kernel or the FireWire stack just for the benef

Re: Please Improve Debian for Multimedia Production

2009-03-27 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Kushal Koolwal wrote: About 6 months back I had done some extensive benchmarking on real-time kernels applying RT patch to Debian stock kernel on x86 architecture. I read about call for help in maintaining,testing debian rt kernel here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-rt-users&m=123808104027590&w=2

Re: Please Improve Debian for Multimedia Production

2009-03-26 Thread Grammostola Rosea
9/3/26 Adrian Knoth mailto:a...@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de>> > > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 09:05:32PM +0100, Grammostola Rosea wrote: > > > > > The problem is an realtime kernel and a proper configuration for music > > > produ

Re: why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing?

2009-03-25 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Reinhard Tartler wrote: Grammostola Rosea writes: Could you comment on this? I think it's the best when Ardour will hit Lenny. New packages are not in scope of the update policy of released debian versions. So this is not going to happen. Second option is as a Lenny bac

Re: Please Improve Debian for Multimedia Production

2009-03-25 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Andreas Tille wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Grammostola Rosea wrote: taste they need to be informed what to choose from. It's like a restaurant where you choose from a menu. Currently we are lacking a complete multimedia "menu" in Debian. An menu entry for multimedia so

Re: Please Improve Debian for Multimedia Production

2009-03-25 Thread Grammostola Rosea
taste they need to be informed what to choose from. It's like a restaurant where you choose from a menu. Currently we are lacking a complete multimedia "menu" in Debian. An menu entry for multimedia sounds good to me (Ubuntu has an menu entry for 'multimedia production:

Re: why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing?

2009-03-25 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Vincent Danjean wrote: Grammostola Rosea wrote: I read this on the Debian multimedia mailinglist: Unfortunately lenny was already freezed by that time, and although both of the above updates were really safe (IMO) and despite all the efforts I and especially Reinhard put into

why is Ardour pretty outdated in stable and not in testing? (was Re: Please Improve Debian for Multimedia Production)

2009-03-25 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Hi, Now we're talking about improving Debian for multimedia, realtime kernels and the like, I thought let's make some work on more things to overcome some dissadvantages of Debian for audio production compared to other distro's. Why is such a core app and also beautiful app as Ardour is, not

Re: realtime kernel for Debian

2009-03-25 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Andreas Tille wrote: On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, nescivi wrote: Given that there are several audio oriented distributions based on Debian (e.g. 64studio and pure:dyne) that would benefit from this, and I am sure their teams may be interested in helping to support it too. IMHO it makes perfectly se

Re: realtime kernel for Debian

2009-03-24 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: Do you really need real time kernel? Debian is a technical driven project, but reading the previous two quotes, "real time" is used as marketing thing. It's good to question the use of any fe

realtime kernel for Debian (was: Please Improve Debian for Multimedia Production)

2009-03-24 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Jim wrote: Grammostola Rosea, I want also to direct your attention to the kernel, as it has the possibility to be more supportive of those specific needs, by having low latency and real-time extensions patched and enabled. The debian folks (especially "waldi" aka Bastien Blank will s

Re: Please Improve Debian for Multimedia Production

2009-03-21 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Michael Hanke wrote: Hi, On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:29:35PM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: As an additional hint the multimedia team might consider using the Debian Pure Blends framework which enables them to show quite simply what is just there and what they are working on (for instance see

Please Improve Debian for Multimedia Production

2009-03-20 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Hi, Since a while I'm pretty active in using Debian/Linux for Multimedia production, especially focusing on music production (check www.linuxmusicians.com for instance). Debian is a great system to use for this. Unfortunately there are nice music production applications which are not in

[Fwd: Re: Bug#520236: Please package minicomputer for Debian]

2009-03-18 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Hi, I reported approximately 6 bugs, which where actually RFP. I reported those as wishes, not as RFP. For example: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520241 Can I change it? How? \r --- Begin Message --- On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:34:37AM +0100, rosea wrote: > Package: minicomp

building packages/ chroot/ pbuilder/...

2009-01-12 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Hi, I want to build packages for Debian. I'm running a debian testing/unstable mix, but the packages should be build in Sid right? How should I do it? I've seen a lot of different tools/ways on the web... please give me some clear information and good references. I've also just setup a apt-

starting gnome with xephyr in chroot fails

2009-01-06 Thread Grammostola Rosea
I tried to start Xephyr: debian-live$ Xephyr :1 -screen 1024x768 -ac Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts