Re: [Denemo-devel] No audio or print on Denemo, can you please help?

[Richard Shann]

On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 14:31 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> The binaries will not print directly unless I compile gtk+ with cups
> support. I tried compiling cups a few times and failed. It will
> require me to have enough free time to do some hacking on it. 
> 
> I may need to compile portaudio with pulseaudio support. This means I
> will need to compile pulseaudio as well. Pulseaudio may be exclusively
> using his soundcard. I remember gtick (metronome software) at one
> point solely used oss sound. When ubuntu moved to pulseaudio gtick
> stopped working for me because of pulseaudio.

The other way to go is to build it yourself - sounds scary, but I
followed the instructions on denemo.org and it worked (on my Debian
system, from which Ubuntu is derived). You have to install quite a few
packages to do it, but it *did* work. The packages needed are described
on http://denemo.org/hacking-sources/ along with the commands needed to
build it. If there are problems, please share them so they can be
fixed...


Richard





> 
> Jeremiah
> 
> On May 6, 2016 1:21 PM, "Richard Shann" <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>         On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 17:57 +0100, Bernard Bourdillon wrote:
>         > Dear Denemo-devel
>         > A friend of mine had a webchat with you earlier
>         (DenemoGuest8) and you
>         > kindly offered to look at my enquiry.
>         > Apologies: I'm not linux literate.
>         > I've installed Denemo 2.0.6. (to replace 1.0.1) on my 64-bit
>         pc running
>         > Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
>         > As explained by DenemoGuest8 (and under his guidance) I
>         downloaded the
>         > recommended binary distro and installed the i386 emulation
>         layer for
>         > Ubuntu and the program runs. However I cannot get any
>         playback audio (it
>         > records
>         
>         records? Do you mean records from a MIDI keyboard?
>         
>         
>         >  satisfactorily) and I cannot get it to see my printer.
>         
>         Can you see your printer from other software? Does the Print
>         Dialog come
>         up at all? (If so, can you Print to File?)
>         
>         >  I can
>         > print from the print preview via saving a pdf
>         
>         Does the button PDF in the Print View work?
>         
>         
>         >  so the playback audio is
>         > the most important thing.
>         >
>         > In relation to the audio I have tried various combinations
>         of setting in
>         > Audio and Midi preferences,
>         
>         Can you hear audio from other programs? I have twice had the
>         audio mute
>         itself on my (Debian) installation, and had to fight the
>         system to get
>         it back on.
>         Also, some programs "hog" the audio - no other program can
>         make sounds
>         while they are running. Denemo does this, and so if you have
>         inadvertently started two Denemo sessions then one will not
>         sound.
>         Re-boot your computer to be quite sure there is no zombie
>         around.
>         
>         For the audio output, only the Audio tab is relevant. You can
>         cause
>         problems if you set Sample Rate (44100) or Period Size (256)
>         to certain
>         values - indeed I know of no system where they should be
>         altered.
>         
>          It would be worth while starting afresh, as audio invariably
>         works
>         straight out of the box on GNU/Linux. To start afresh delete
>         the
>         directory ~/.denemo-2.0.6
>         Then re-launch Denemo and say you don't want to import your
>         old
>         preferences when it asks you.
>         
>         >  but I don't know what I'm doing.
>         >
>         > Both playback and printing worked satisfactorily under
>         Denemo 1.0.1.
>         
>         It would be worthwhile to email the preferences file that you
>         have for
>         1.0.1. This file is in
>         
>         ~/.denemo-1.0.1
>         
>         and is called denemorc
>         
>         That will give a clue as to the settings you had that worked.
>         
>         HTH
>         
>         Richard
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         
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