<h2>High Level Recommendations for Ubuntu Users</h2>
<p>
- If you are really committed to using Ubuntu for pro-audio or music
- creation work, you should ....
+ 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
+ these settings preconfigured - also containing many customized and often
+ more up to date packages.
<p>
-<p>
- If you not yet committed to using Ubuntu for pro-audio or music
- creation work, you should probably consider using a different
- distribution that has a demonstrated history of not making life for
- users like you more complex than it needs to be. In particular you
- might want to consider a distribution such
- as <a href="http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html">AVLinux</a>
- or <a href="http://www.dickmacinnis.com/dreamstudio/">Dreamstudio</a>
- that is specifically focused on media creation work.
-</p>
<h2>Problems with Ardour Packages</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>
- <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>
+ 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>
</p>
</dd>
<dt>How to fix</dt>
+<p>
+ 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>
</dl>
locking". This means that you, the user who starts JACK, must be
allowed access to these facilities. By default, Ubuntu does create a
user group that has this permission but ... it does not put new
- users into this group by default. Consequently, you will not have
- permission to run JACK in the way you should.
+ users into this group by default. Read more about why <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/TheAudioGroup">here</a>.
+ Consequently, you will not have permission to run JACK in the way you should.
</p>
</dd>
<dt>Symptoms</dt>
Run the command <code>sudo usermod -a -G
audio <em>YOUR-LOGIN-NAME</em></code>. Then logout and login again.
On Ubuntu Studio the user is a member of audio group by default, but not
- on other flavors. Read more about why <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/TheAudioGroup">here</a>
+ on other official flavors.
</p>
</dd>
</dl>