<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>
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
- ready-to-run version of the program that you can get from ardour.org
- (or in the packages released by other distributions)
+ 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>
<dt>How to Fix</dt>
<dd>
<p>
- Download the ready-to-run version from ardour.org. Ardour's lead
- developer (and many of the most active members of our user
+ 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
<dt>What is the problem?</dt>
<dd>
<p>
- This relatively simple system ought to be the basis for excellent
- cooperation between PulseAudio and JACK. Unfortunately, it relies on
- everything being correctly configured for it to work, and Ubuntu
- have repeatedly failed to get this configuration correct.
-</p>
-<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</li>
- <li>bad package dependency information that causes a critical
- package to be missing even when JACK and PulseAudio are
- installed</li>
- <li>a bug that causes JACK to freeze up when told to stop,
- causing issues with restarting</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>
<ul>
<li>Cannot start JACK (though see the next section for other
causes of this)</li>
- <li>JACK starts but there is no sound coming from Ardour or other
- applications that use JACK.</li>
</ul>
</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>
<dt>How to fix</dt>
<dd>
<p>
+ Make sure the file /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf exists. If it is
+ named /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf.disabled, rename it to the former.
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 official flavors.
</p>
</dd>
</dl>
-
+ <h2>Reporting Issues</h2>
+<p>Given the difficulties in supporting Ubuntu and the limited time/resources of the Ardour team, the <code>Ubuntu Studio Project</code> has requested that issues and bug reports related to Ubuntu, Ubuntu Studio and other derivitives be directed to them.<p>
+<h4>Contact Information for Ubuntu Studio</h4>
+<p><a href="http://ubuntustudio.org" target="_blank">The Ubuntu Studio Homepage</a></p>
+<p><a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=335" target="_blank">The Ubuntu Studio Forums.</a></p>
+<p><a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio/MailLists" target="_blank">Information on the Ubuntu Studio Mailing Lists.</a></p>
+<p><a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio/IRC" target-"_blank">Information on the Ubuntu Studio IRC channel.</a> #ubuntustudio on irc.freenode.net</p>
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