2008-01-07

Finally Ubuntu Microphone in

I've been slow to update my Ubuntu 6.10, mainly because the nvidia drivers need to be reconfigured (envy rerun basically), and minor other things might break. The microphone input didn't work initially, but only the other day did I try to fix it- apparently the alsa drivers didn't fully support the hda-intel MCP51 soundcard I had.

So the non-full update thing was to download the latest alsa driver, lib, utils from http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page and configure-make-install them. driver had to be configured with --with-cards=hda-intel.

After that:
/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
options snd-hda-intel model=laptop

After restarting, the gnome sound recorder and audacity recorder worked fine, but gephex depends on there being a /dev/dsp0. I only have a /dev/dsp, and creating a symlink with ln -s /dev/dsp /dev/dsp0 works well but doesn't persist after a restart. So edit /etc/udev/rules.d/60-symlinks.rules and add the line:
KERNEL=="dsp", SYMLINK+="dsp0"

2008-01-02

Next Year


http://flickr.com/photos/released/2159331315/

I and a few others from Hackerbot put a bunch of work into getting the visualization running, and it worked mostly and was decent, but I didn't put much work into providing variation on the effects, I just let them go as is for hours. But the live video input was broken, mplayer on a pvrusb2 would work for a few minutes and then lock up so hard a kill -9 wouldn't even kill it. And the audio would work after it was futzed with but then stop upon trying it into a new graph.

Dual Projectors

Easel

Next Year 2008





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http://www.flickr.com/photos/foist/2158071625/

Harrier from binarymillenium on Vimeo.