Re: Alternate to Peak or ProTools

From: Richard Gecko (geck_at_nomac.com)
Date: 08/17/05 

Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 04:59:54 GMT

Funny stuff... I guess. I only wanted a suggestion for an alternate
audio recording and editing program.

Gecko

In article <1124251121.967398.33870@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
 "Tomas Dietz" <xilo_fone@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Easy...............
> Dump Protools and MacOS or OSx, install Linux and run ardour or
> Audacity and you will be all set.
>
> Here are instructions how.
> It's pretty intuitive if you just follow the instructions.
> Good Luck!!
>
>
> http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~schmidtm/apple/powerbook.en.php
>
> 0. General
>
> 0.1 Battery
> The battery is not as powerfull as Apple stated (~ 5 hours). Under OS X
> the laptop suspends after 2.5 hours. Under Linux and heavy load (I
> compiled the kernel four times, rebooted four times and also compiled a
> lot of source code) the laptop works for 3.5 hours. Under normal
> circumstances the battery was empty after 4 hours.
> 0.2 Heat
> You won't get cold fingers if you hack in the winter :) The PB has an
> active fan, but the aluminium chassis acts as an passive cooler. During
> compiling Xfree 4.3.0 the PB chassis was really hot.
>
> Chassis temperatures
> # Normal: ca. 25 degree Celsius
> # make bzImage: ca. 27-30 degree Celcius
> 0.3 Important keys
>
> Important keys
>
> * Reboot the Powerbook: [apple] + [ctrl] + [power switch]
> * Command key: [apple]"
> * Option key: [alt]
>
> 1. Mac OS X
> 1.1 Install Mac OS X
> My PB (and the PB 12" of others too) isn't able too boot of the OS X
> install DVD. You'll see the gray apple but nothing will happen. I tried
> it with OS X CDs from an old iBook, but they failed too. I found a
> solution for this problem in the Apple support forum:
>
> Solution
>
> * Insert Software restore DVD
> * Restart
> * Press [c] shortly after the boot sound
> * Press [apple] + [v] and hold after the grey apple appears
> * Release key after entering the debug mode (text on screen)
> * Wait for the installer
>
> During the installation I partitioned the harddrive into two
> partitions. One for OS X and another one for Linux.
>
> 2. Install Debian GNU Linux
> 2.1 Preparation
> Download the following files and copy them into the OS X root
> directory:
>
> Download and install these files
>
> 1. images/root.bin
> 2. yaboot
> 3. yaboot.conf
> 4. linux.bin
>
> The first three file derived from
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-powerpc/current/new-po
> wermac/,
> the fourth is the kernel from Orion Buckminster Montoya, which I
> renamed to linux.bin. You have to take his kernel, because the debian
> default kernel doesn't support ATA 100. The ATA chipset is the
> "intrepid chipset, which is UniNorth bridge and KeyLargo IS ASIC merged
> in one chip. It's CONFIG BLK DEV IDE PMAC in kernel config".
>
> If copying failes, activate the OS X root account with sudo passwd
> root.
>
> Reboot and press immediately [apple] + [alt] + [o] + [f] to enter the
> Open Firmware BIOS. Boot the Debian installer with
>
> Boot debian installer (This is the Open Firmware prompt)
>
> > boot hd:X,yaboot
>
> Replace the X with the location of your OS X partition. I filled 9 in.
> If 9 isn't your OS X partition, look at the mount output in the OS X
> Terminal. I won't write anything about the Debian install process, have
> a look at the tutorials in the appendix.
> 2.2 Boot youe System
> Anyone who installed Debian testing or unstable can skip this section.
> These boot-floppies have the correct yaboot version installed. You only
> need to run yabootconfig.
>
> You won't be able to boot your system with the Debian yaboot (1.3.6).
> You'll receive an error-message during the installation, but don't
> panic. Reboot, enter the Open Firmware and boot, as described above,
> yaboot again. Now at the yaboot prompt type in the following
>
> Boot installed system (This is the Yaboot prompt)
>
> boot: hd:X,/linux.bin root=/dev/hdYY ro
>
> and boot your installed system (the Y char) with the kernel on the OS X
> (the X char) partition. Now linux should start and you can finish the
> Debian installation. (Thanks to Jonathan Love who pointed me at a
> mistake in my description).
>
> After this, download the newest yaboot (1.3.10) from
> http://penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/ and install it. Note: If the old
> yaboot version from debian is still installed, be sure to use the new
> version. ybin -V or apt-get remove yaboot will help you in any way :-P.
> If you step into problems send an email and have a look into the yaboot
> HOWTO. Here is my yaboot.conf.
> 2.3 Problems during disk partitioning
> If your Apple crashes during disk partition (eg Battery empty) and
> isn't able to boot thereafter, you can use the DiskUtility from the Mac
> OS X boot cd to write a new partition table and restart installation.
> According to my information it's not possible to format a hard disk
> with Open Firmware.
>
> 3. Configuration
> 3.1 Kernel
> If cat /proc/cpuinfo reports 53MHz as clock frequency
>
> cpu : 7455, altivec supported
> clock : 53MHz
> revision : 3.3 (pvr 8001 0303)
> bogomips : 51.90
> machine : PowerBook6,1
> motherboard : PowerBook6,1 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh
> detected as : 271 (Unknown Pangea-based)
> pmac flags : 00000008
> L2 cache : 256K unified
> memory : 384MB
> pmac-generation : NewWorld
>
> install the newest benh Kernel (look below). If you're looking for
> further information please search the debian-powerpc archives. You only
> have one choice with Linux and PPC: the kernel from Benjamin
> Herrenschmidt. You'll get it via rsync:
>
> Kernel update via rsync
>
> # mkdir /usr/src/benh kernel
> # rsync -avz rsync.penguinppc.org::linux-2.4-benh /usr/src/benh kernel
>
> Here is my kernel .config
> 3.1.1 Network
> If you activate CONFIG SUNGEM=y in your kernel config, the ethernet
> device is working flawlessly.
>
> sungem.c:v0.97 3/20/02 David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
> eth0: Sun GEM (PCI) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:03:93:cc:b2:a2
> eth0: Found BCM5221 PHY
>
> 3.1.2 Sound
> Works fine. Active the following options during kernel configuration:
>
> Kernel sound options
>
> CONFIG SOUND=m
> CONFIG DMASOUND PMAC=m
> CONFIG DMASOUND=m
>
> and create a file named sound in /etc/modutils/ with the following
> content:
>
> /etc/modutils/sound
>
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> alias sound-slot-0 dmasound pmac
> alias char-major-14-3 dmasound pmac
> alias /dev/dsp dmasound pmac
> alias sound-service-0-0 i2c-keywest
> alias char-major-14-0 i2c-keywest
> alias /dev/mixer i2c-keywest
>
> 3.1.3 Bluetooth
> I've tested the bluetooth support with the T68i mobile phone from Sony
> Ericsson and it worked.
> 3.1.3.1 Kernel options
> You'll need the following kernel options to communicate with the
> mobile:
>
> Bluetooth kernel options
>
> CONFIG BLUEZ=m
> CONFIG BLUEZ L2CAP=m
> CONFIG BLUEZ RFCOMM=m
> CONFIG BLUEZ RFCOMM TTY=y
> CONFIG BLUEZ HCIUSB=m
> CONFIG BLUEZ HCIUART=m
> CONFIG BLUEZ HCIUART H4=y
> CONFIG BLUEZ HCIVHCI=m
>
> You have to load the modules below to get a working connection:
>
> hci usb 7680 1
> rfcomm 34696 1
> l2cap 18612 2
> bluez 36008 3 [hci usb rfcomm l2cap]
>
> 3.1.3.2 Installation
> I don't use the blue userland programs from Debian, instead I compiled
> them myself. Download the tarballs below from bluez.sf.net
>
> Required tarballs
> # bluez-libs-2.4.tar.gz
> # bluez-sdp-1.1.tar.gz
> # bluez-utils-2.3.tar.gz
>
> After installing I searched my mobile via hcitool:
>
> littlejohn!ms:~ $ hcitool scan
> Scanning ...
> 00:0A:D9:37:49:9F Superphone
>
> If hcitool successfully detects your phone, use rfcomm and a PPP tool
> (pppd, wvdial) to connect to the internet via bluetooth :)
> 3.1.4 Internal modem
> I was able to install and use successfully the modem driver. I
> downloaded the driver from Linux drivers for Conexant modems and
> installed them. During configuration the hcfusbconfig-script wanted
> insistently a awk version > 3.1.0. I loaded gawk version 3.1.2 from
> gnu.org and installed it.
>
> Now I was able to finish the modem configuration. I had to modify the
> init-string of the modem to make it work:
>
> Changed modem Init-String
>
> ATX3
>
> Have a look at my wvdial.conf.
> 3.1.5 USB 1.1
> My Logitech USB mouse work as well as my USB Memory Stick (with
> usb-storage) worked.
> 3.1.6 Firewire 400
> Firewire Cameras seemed not to work. A Firewire HDD worked without
> problems.
> 3.1.7 Power management
> NEW: Suspend to disk is now working properly with kernel 2.6.9. You can
> find the required kernel patch here. Please unload firewire and usb
> modules before suspending and don't forget the resume=partition kernel
> entry. Blacklight control also works fine. The needed kernel patch is
> available at the same location as the suspend patch.
>
> Nope, APM won't work. APM says: Sleep mode (suspend to ram) not
> supported on this machine and Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote on
> debian-powerpc:
>
> > sleep support
> No, may take a while before it's supported
>
> Anyway you can do a cat /proc/apm to get the correct information about
> your battery status.
> 3.1.8 CPU
> The CPU is fully supported. To get full speed (867 MHz) have a look at
> the following:
>
> Change clock frequency
>
> littlejohn!ms:~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep clock
> clock : 533MHz
> littlejohn!ms:~ $ echo -n "0%100%100%performance" > /proc/cpufreq
> littlejohn!ms:~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep clock
> clock : 867MHz
>
> And don't forget to activate cpufreq support during kernel
> configuration. Kernel 2.6.7-bk16 is requiered for cpufreq on the 1.33
> GHz model.
>
> The following packages exist for controlling CPU frequency:
>
> * cpudyn - CPU dynamic frequency control for processors with
> scaling
> * powernowd - control cpu speed and voltage using 2.6 kernel
> interface
>
> 3.2 DVD/CD-RW drive
> SVCD and DVD playback works. With mplayer I wasn't able to play all
> DVDs (eg LOTR failed). Somebody reported that DVDV playback with xine
> is fine. The CD burner works without problems. Activate SCSI emulation
> during kernel configuration and add an entry to your yaboot.conf. With
> Kernel 2.6 you can burn CDs without SCSI emulation. The output of
> cdrecord -scanbus:
>
> Cdrecord 1.10 (powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg
> Schilling
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
> scsibus0:
> 0,0,0 0) 'MATSHITA' 'CD-RW CW-8122 ' 'BA1D' Removable CD-ROM
> 0,1,0 1) *
> 0,2,0 2) *
> 0,3,0 3) *
> 0,4,0 4) *
> 0,5,0 5) *
> 0,6,0 6) *
> 0,7,0 7) *
>
> 3.3 Keyboard
> I choose mac-usb-de-latin1 (german) as keyboard layout. Furthermore I
> installed pbbuttonsd. You'll now be able to use the PB special keys
> (eject, mute, volume, ...) with this daemon. I wrote a little init
> script to activate pbbuttonsd at startup. If you want to eject CDs from
> the build-in CD-ROM drive you have to install eject additionaly.
> 3.4 Trackpad
> With the following /etc/gpm.conf the trackpad works fine under console.
>
> /etc/gpm.conf
>
> device=/dev/input/mice
> responsiveness=
> repeat type=
> type=ps2
> append=""
> sample rate=
>
> I mapped the second and third mouse button to F11 and F12. If you enter
> showkey and press any key, you'll see the keycode. My /etc/sysctl.conf:
> /etc/sysctl.conf
>
> dev/mac hid/mouse button emulation = 1
> dev/mac hid/mouse button2 keycode = 87
> dev/mac hid/mouse button3 keycode = 88
>
> Hierzu muss im Kernel CONFIG MAC EMUMOUSEBTN aktiviert sein.
> 3.5 TV adapter
> I wasn't yet successfull getting the TV adapter working.
> 3.6 Analog VGA monitor
> Same for the VGA adapter. It worked fine under OS X (surprise).
> 3.7 Airport Extreme
> It seems that the chipset on the Airport Extreme Card is a Broadcom
> chip. Broadcom don't tend to release the Linux driver or any
> information how to write a new driver. There is an ongoing petition,
> just sign it :)
>
> Mmh, no :) I was able to successfully load the hermes module, but
> that's all. kern.log displays the following:
>
> Mar 26 21:45:50 kernel: hermes.c: 5 Apr 2002 David Gibson
> Mar 26 21:47:52 kernel: orinoco.c 0.11b (David Gibson and others)
> Mar 26 21:47:52 kernel: airport.c 0.11b (Benjamin Herrenschmidt )
> Mar 26 21:47:52 kernel: orinoco.c 0.11b (David Gibson and others)
> Mar 26 21:47:52 kernel: airport.c 0.11b (Benjamin Herrenschmidt )
>
> The aiport modul failed with the following message:
>
> /lib/modules/2.4.20-ben9/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/airport.o:
> init module: No such device
> Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
> including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
>
> I created an alias (eth1) for the card and ifconfig eth1 reported the
> following (surprise ;):
>
> eth1: error fetching interface information: Device not found
>
> 4.0 Xfree 4.3.0 with a Nvidia GeForce4 420 Go
>
> Update: Xfree from Testing/Unstable works fine with the GeForce FX
> Go5200 (GeForce4 420 Go), you don't need to compile your own version.
>
> Julian Scheel has started an online petition for nvidia linux driver
> for ppc. You can sign it here.
>
> Note: A lot of readers reported problems with the CVS version of
> Xfree86. If you run into trouble during compiling, try the stable
> version of Xfree 4.3.x. It'll work :)
>
> 4.1 Installation
> It works! To get X working, try the following steps. If you use
> unstable/sid you can skip the first three steps.
>
> Step-by-Step instruction
>
> * get Xfree 4.3.0 from ftp://ftp.xfree86.org
> * read the Install-HOWTO and compile the sources
> * look if the nv driver compiles successfully
> * install the binaries
> * configure X or use my XF86Config
> * login from another box via ssh
> * startx and look at /var/log/XFree86.0.log
> * if X starts, ok. If not, look at the error messages
> * If you get an error like Could not load default font fixed,
> install xfonts-base via apt.
>
> If you use sid, you don't need to compile X from source. You can use
> the debian packages from Daniel Stone. To get the packages type apt-get
> install x-window-system. Update: With a recent (ben10) benh kernel
> you'll be able to quit and restart your Xsession without problems.
> Disadvantage: Your console will be limited to 80x30 characters after
> boot. Orion Buckminster was the first person who reported this issue on
> debian-powerpc.
>
> My XF86Config and the output of XFree86.0.log.Note: My color depth is
> 16Bit per default, but you can use 24Bit (according to Pander) without
> problems.
>
> 4.2 Configuration
> 4.2.1 Keyboard
> Note: Christophe Cattlegrid wrote very usefull information about X and
> keyboard mapping in his HOWTO, so I'll skip this. Have a look at his
> HOWTO (see Appendix) instead. I modified my .Xmodmap to get a usable
> german keyboard layout. I mapped for example [AltGr] on the [apple]
> key.
>
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> Richard Gecko ha escrito:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Wish to record with an Apogee Mini-Me on a Powerbook, and I'm tired of
> > hooking up the M-Box just to use Protools. Tried Peak but it's not very
> > intuitive, as least for me.
> >
> > Anyone have other suggestions? Simple one or two track recording and
> > editing is all that's required, and bouncing down to MP3... or I'll do
> > that with another program afterwards.
> >
> > Thanks for thoughts.
> >
> >
> > RG