Ubuntu Studio 12.04.2 LTS Testing has started!

[Kaj Ailomaa]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 11:11:33 +0100, Fernando Gomes <f.m.gomes at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Installed the amd64 version on a Toshiba Satellite R630-13U (Core i5, 4GB
> RAM, 500GB HDD). No major problems, the install wizard didn't detect the
> wireless connection during installation, so I had to update after the
> installation done. I had a pop-up during the installation telling that
> there were Wireless networks available but I had no way to configure
> anything at that phase, so all the installation was done without internet
> access. Tested only Hydrogen, Jack, Yoshimi and Guitarix. Installed
> Rosegarden that crashed a few times. In the meantime compiled a  
> PREEMPT_RT
> kernel for it and worked also well on this laptop. I had some Xruns using
> the internal audio board (Intel), they were not solved by the RT kernel  
> but
> was able to work with it without Xruns after some tweaking on the JACK
> parameters, but this was no problem because the internal board sound is
> terrible, so the real problem will be if I have Xruns with my Allen&Heath
> ZED UEB mixer, but had no time to test it yet.
>
> By the way, is there any 'easy' way of adding linuxsampler to  
> UbuntuStudio?

I don't know of any PPA that has linux-sampler only. Compiling it is not  
very hard. You might need to compile some of its dependencies as well, all  
though they all exist as packages in the Ubuntu repo.

> I saw some references of adding KXStudio repositories, but am afraid of
> breaking dependencies if I do it.
>
> Best regards
>
> Fernando