* Perfectly accessible Audio production solution for Linux
@ Mario Lang
` Running X w/o X (Oracle client install) John Heim
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From: Mario Lang @ UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi.
I just wanted to let you know that thee is actually one fully
accessible audio production envorinment for Linux available now. It
is called SuperCollider3 (supercollider.sourceforge.net), the
third generation of James MacCarthy's audio synthesis programming environment.
Versions one and two were only available for Macintosh, but
James released version three uneer the GPL and did some
rearchitecturing. This version is now fully client/server
based, consisting of scsynth, the real-time audio synthesis
server which is controlled via a network connection by some client(s)
which use the OSC protocol. sclang is one client for the scsynth
server which implements the SuperCollider Programming language.
This client does not require any GUI, in fact it can be used directly
from within Emacs. One only needs to learn the SuperCollider
programming language to be able to do whatever one can imagine.
The sclang client for Linux can also talk to the ALSA MIDI sequencer API,
therefore allowing you to do MIDI sequencing at a programming level.
It does present a quite steep learning curve, but it is useable
by us after all. If you got some MIDI fader box or any other MIDI
hardware with knobs, you should actually be able to build your own
synthesizer with interactive realtime controls. I'm missing some vital
pieces of hardware to interconnect my MIDI equipment with my SBLive
right now, but as soon as this is cleared up, I can let you know
of results in this direction.
Quickstart for Debian users:
* Install package supercollider and supercollider-doc.
* Create directories ~/synthdefs and ~/SuperCollider.
* Copy the directory /usr/share/doc/supercollider-doc/Help to directory
~/SuperColider so that you have a directory ~/SuperColider/Help.
* Unpack all help files so that Emacs can read them:
find ~/SuperCollider/Help -name \*.gz -exec gunzip {} \;
* Add (require 'sclang) to your .emacs.
* Launch Emacs with command-line argument -sclang: emacs -sclang
* Hit C-c C-h, enter "Help" as help topic, and start reading.
--
CYa,
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Perfectly accessible Audio production solution for Linux Mario Lang
@ ` John Heim
` hank smith
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From: John Heim @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux for blind general discussion, blinux-list
I'm trying to install the Oracle client software on a RH AS machine.
It has a GUI installation wizard but you are supposted to be able to get
around it with command line switch and a text file that answers all the
questions in the wizard.
But the wizard still has to make a connection to an X server which is
pretty brain dead, IMO. Does anyone know how I can do this?
I'm connected to the machine via ssh.
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` Running X w/o X (Oracle client install) John Heim
@ ` hank smith
` John Heim
` Willem van der Walt<willem@top.health.gov.za>
` Tim Chase
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From: hank smith @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux for blind general discussion
how do you edit config files from ssh in windows
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Subject: Running X w/o X (Oracle client install)
> I'm trying to install the Oracle client software on a RH AS machine.
>
> It has a GUI installation wizard but you are supposted to be able to get
> around it with command line switch and a text file that answers all the
> questions in the wizard.
>
> But the wizard still has to make a connection to an X server which is
> pretty brain dead, IMO. Does anyone know how I can do this?
>
> I'm connected to the machine via ssh.
>
>
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` hank smith
@ ` John Heim
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From: John Heim @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux for blind general discussion, Linux for blind general discussion
At 07:07 PM 9/8/2004, hank smith you wrote:
>how do you edit config files from ssh in windows
Sometimes I use vi. Sometimes I open the file remotely via emacspeak.
I have samba installed on this particular server so I can open a file with
my Windows text editor. But I've been making most of my changes via vi
because they've been simple.
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` Running X w/o X (Oracle client install) John Heim
` hank smith
@ ` Willem van der Walt<willem@top.health.gov.za>
` Tim Chase
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From: Willem van der Walt<willem@top.health.gov.za> @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux for blind general discussion
Hi,
set your DISPLAY variable to some or other valid x server.
The oracle client library needs to be on the machine and then the sqlplus
etc. need to be linked to it.
If you only need sqlpplus on the client machine, there is a few ways of
doing that.
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, John Heim wrote:
> I'm trying to install the Oracle client software on a RH AS machine.
>
> It has a GUI installation wizard but you are supposted to be able to get
> around it with command line switch and a text file that answers all the
> questions in the wizard.
>
> But the wizard still has to make a connection to an X server which is pretty
> brain dead, IMO. Does anyone know how I can do this?
>
> I'm connected to the machine via ssh.
>
>
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` Running X w/o X (Oracle client install) John Heim
` hank smith
` Willem van der Walt<willem@top.health.gov.za>
@ ` Tim Chase
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From: Tim Chase @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux for blind general discussion
If you have a couple options for satisfying a need for X.
1) If you want to send things remotely to the machine from which
you're SSH'ing, you need an X server running on your local
machine. There have been steps taken by the Cygwin folks to get
this working in Windows, but I've not tried it. Last time I
tried this, I used a non-free package by the name of Reflection
to provide an X server under Windows.
2) If you really need to connect to an X server, but don't have a
"real" X server, you can configure X to use the "Xvfb" driver
which creates a virtual frame-buffer. This would be, as your
"subject" line suggests "X without X." From the man page:
"Xvfb is an X server that can run on machines with no display
hardware and no physical input devices. It emulates a dumb
framebuffer using virtual memory."
I recommend against simply finding some random machine proving an
X server over which you have no control and just setting your
DISPLAY variable to point at it, as things may get displayed to
that machine without notifying you. Or there may be security
concerns if it provides some sort of administrative dialog that
comes to the person sitting in front of the X display rather than
coming to you.
3) You might be able to get away without X at all, if the Oracle
program/install in question has some obscure option (like Vim
does) to forego detection of X. You'd have to check out their
documentation on this to see if they provide such an option.
4) Lastly, if getting "Xvfb" set up is a problem, but your
install automatically can configure a regular X setup, just let
it start, and then use ctrl+alt+F1 to get back to your first
virtual console. X will run in the background, making Oracle
happy, (and slupring down a few system resources, but it
shouldn't be too bad) yet you have your regular console interface
at VC 1 through whatever.
Hope this helps,
-tim
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