who want to use Ardour and other tools for music creation and
pro-audio work.
</p>
-<p>
- Unfortunately, Ubuntu has repeatedly caused major headaches for
- people who want to use Ardour. These problems have arisen from a
- combination of two basic issues:
-
- <ul>
- <li>Badly built packages of Ardour</li>
- <li>Poor system configuration related to JACK, which Ardour (and
- most other pro-audio tools on Linux) uses for audio and MIDI I/O.
- </li>
- </ul>
-</p>
<h2>High Level Recommendations for Ubuntu Users</h2>
<p>
- Currently, installing pro audio applications on Ubuntu requires some
- configuration, in order for the user to gain realtime privilege (read below).
+ Currently, installing pro audio applications on vanilla Ubuntu requires
+ some configuration, in order for the user to gain realtime privilege
+ (read below).
Ubuntu Studio, which is an official flavor of Ubuntu, and thus shares
the repositories with Ubuntu, has this already configured.
Another distribution, KXStudio, is largely based on Ubuntu, and also has
more up to date packages.
<p>
-<h2>Problems with Ardour Packages</h2>
-
-<dl>
-<dt>What is the problem?</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>
- It is not possible to know whether the current package of Ardour
- released by Ubuntu has been correctly built or not. Ubuntu has a
- history of making packaging errors that lead to crashes, missing
- functionality and odd behaviour that is not present in the
+<h2>Installing Ardour</h2>
+ There may be unintended differences, and even bugs in Ubuntu native
+ packages, as a result of a different building method. For this reason,
+ Ardour developers highly recommend you to install the official
ready-to-run version of the program that you can get from <a
- href="http://ardour.org/download">ardour.org</a> (or in the packages
- released by other distributions)
-</p>
-<dt>Symptoms</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>
- Ardour starts up and basically runs, but you encounter subtle
- problems (for example, with plugin GUIs or with export, or with the
- use of certain specific plugins), or are missing functionality, or
- run into crashes.
-</p>
-</dd>
-<dt>How to Fix</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>
- Download the ready-to-run version
- from <a href="http://ardour.org/download">ardour.org</a>. Ardour's
- lead developer (and many of the most active members of our user
- community) will not provide support for, and will not investigate
- bugs reported for, Ubuntu's own packages of Ardour. The ardour.org
- packages install along side your distribution versions, and do not
- interfere or interact in anyway other than sharing your own personal
- Ardour settings and configuration choices.
-</p>
-</dd>
-</dl>
+ href="http://ardour.org/download">ardour.org</a>, as Ubuntu native
+ packages are not supported in official Ardour forums or other
+ support channels.
<h2>Problems with the interaction between PulseAudio and JACK</h2>
<dt>What is the problem?</dt>
<dd>
<p>
- The specific issues known at this time (spring 2013) are:
+ The specific issues known at this time for all flavors of Ubuntu
+ 12.04 and 12.10 are:
<ul>
<li>a bug in PulseAudio that causes it not to give up the
- soundcard when JACK asks (<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1163638">LP: #1163638</a></li>
+ soundcard when JACK asks (<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1163638">LP: #1163638</a>
+ (fixed in Ubuntu 13.04).</li>
<li>a bug that causes jackdbus v.1.9.8 (jackd does not suffer from this)
to freeze up when told to stop, causing issues with restarting (<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+source/jackd2/+bug/956438">LP: #956438</a></li>
+ (fixed in Ubuntu 13.04)
</ul>
+</p>
</dd>
<dt>Symptoms</dt>
<dd>
</dd>
<dt>How to fix</dt>
<p>
- Install jackd2 1.9.9 to fix crash on stop bug.
- Install pulseaudio-3.0 to fix card reservation bug.
+ These bugs do not affect the upcoming 13.04 release, and earlier
+ releases (12.04 and 12.10) are in the process of being fixed.
</p>
<dd>
</dd>
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