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Install instructions v3.0

August 16, 2014 / Marko / Documentation
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You will have to download two files. One is live CD called Redobackup that will preform the installation. The other file is actual AP-Linux image. If you find any errors or difficulties, please leave a comment at the end of this document or notify us at info@ap-linux.com.

Requirements:

1. Entire hard disk. Forget side to side installation with windows. It can be done but it’s out of the scope of this document.

2. HDD size at least 27GB

3. 1GB of RAM

4. 64-bit intel or AMD CPU.

5. Patience and Rakija after successful install

Install requirements:

1. DVD rom (internal or external)

2. USB stick or second disk in PC or shared storage for the image of AP-Linux

Installation procedure:

DISCLAIMER! This installation can ERASE all your data if you don’t know what you are doing. We are not responsible for any of your data or hair loss.

1. Download the modified Redobackup CD image and burn the image on CD or DVD. md5 file is here. If you don’t know how to burn ISO file here is how you can do it: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto

2. Download the new AP-Linux V3 zip image and extract the files to USB stick or to network shared folder. MD5 file is here. You will get directory named something like APL-v3 with 6 files like this. Their names will be changed in the future, but you will have files: *.backup, *.mbr, * _part1.000, *_part2.000, *.sfdisk, *.size

3. Prepare your PC for booting from CD/DVD ROM. Maybe your PC is already configured like that. If it doesn’t boot from CDROM, go to BIOS and find an option that says something like “Boot order” and select CD/DVD for first boot device, and second device Hard Disk. Save the BIOS options and exit. Now installer DVD should boot from DVD ROM.

4. Prepare new, blank or some old hard disk drive on which you want to install AP-Linux. You can’t upgrade from previous version. Remember, installation will erase everything on this disk.

5. Insert the Redobackup CD in DVD/CD rom and boot the PC. Also connect USB stick with extracted image of AP-Linux.

This screen should appear

Boot

After successful boot, you should see this screen. First we will need to erase everything on installation hard disk drive. If you are using new blank disk, you can skip this step. Open Disk tools -> Disk Utility disk utilitySelect drive you wish to install AP-Linux and erase everything on it.

Format drive

Choose “Don’t partition”

Format drive2

After successful erasing, your disk should look like this.

Formated drive

Close Disk Utility and return to the first screen. Choose “Restore”.

Redobackup restore

Select source drive. Your source drive is where you have extracted AP-Linux.zip image. Our appears as Drive 2 Part 2 which means: disk2 partition 2.

Redobackup-source-disk

Our AP-Linux image is on the second partition of disk2. (160GB disk on the picture above) We have picked this partition for source. Your will probably be different and you will have windows partitions. Ok, now choose your source drive with AP-Linux installation, navigate to the image and click open.

Navigate-to-backup-image

Click next

Click-next

Select destination drive. In our example, we will install AP-Linux on Drive 1 (/dev/sda). Installation will use entire disk so you can’t choose partitions here. Remember that you have to be careful selecting the right drive because installation will wipe everything on that drive.

Select-destination-disk

Confirm:

Confirm

And the installation will begin

Installing

When it’s finished, we need to create partition for music storage. Once again open Disk Tools -> Disk Utility. You music storage can be on the same disk where you installed AP-Linux. Or it can be on some other disk. Chose your disk and partition. In this example we will use the same disk where we have installed AP-Linux (/dev/sda). You will see free space. Click on it and click “Create Partition”. Choose ext4.

Create partition

After successful creation, you will see something like this:

Music storage partition

Click on the first partition and mount it.

mount partition

Click on mount point

mount point

Navigate to etc and double click fstab

select fstab

Find line that starts with /dev/sdb1 /storage.

fstab2

Replace sdb1 with sda3. (Or where you have created your storage partition). Save file and exit editor.

fstab3

Reboot, remove the CD and you should boot new AP-Linux and login automatically. But we have to do one more thing. After successful install and reboot, right click on empty desktop space and select X-Terminal. After ‘su’ you will be asked for password. Password is ‘muser’.

Open X-Terminal and type:

<server1>[~]$ su 
Password: 
<server1>[~]# mkdir /storage/Music 
<server1>[~]# chown -R muser:muser /storage

Local time is set to central Europe. To change it, open terminal and:

<server1>[~]$ su 
Password: 
<server1>[~]# mount -o remount,rw / 
<server1>[~]# rm /etc/localtime
<server1>[~]# ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Zagreb /etc/localtime
<server1>[~]# reboot

Replace Europe/Zagreb with your time zone. You can find cities and time zones in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ directory.

At the end, copy music that you want to listen to /storage/Music directory. And that’s it. Congratulations!

Next, you can choose to play music with Deadbeef player, or you can enjoy MPD. The best music player daemon on the planet.

Installation instructions on disk 2.

If you have installed AP-Linux on Disk2 (/dev/sdb), after installation you will have to modify two files. ‘fstab and syslinux.conf’. Here is video of installation on Disk2 (/dev/sdb) and how to modify these two files:

Desk2 /dev/sdb installation

Upon boot, you will have to tell your PC to boot from second disk. This can be done on startup or in BIOS. But some motherboards don’t support this. If that’s the case, you will have to install AP-Linux on Disk1.

Post installation: 

1. Wireless config

Open terminal and become root.

$ su 
Password: 
# mount -o remount,rw / 
# wpa_passphrase SSIDNAME Password >> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
# wpa_supplicant -B -D wext -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
# dhcpcd wlan0

You need to know your SSID and password. Your SSID and password will be stored so you don’t need to repeat these steps next time you reboot. You will only need to become root and enter ‘dhcpcd wlan0’.

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274 comments on “Install instructions v3.0”

  1. Steve says:
    August 24, 2014 at 10:59

    Thankyou for your time and effort in making this os.it is brilliant .Just purchased asus xonar essence st pci card and the sound is brilliant.I have not had a problem installing. Running amd phenom tripple core ,gigabyte motherboard.Thankyou Steve

    Reply
    • octavian says:
      February 1, 2015 at 16:57

      hi Steve, I’m going to build a music pc soonest, based on gigabyte mb, amd dual core cpu and asus essence stx, heavily modified. mi question regards the last one, what driver you use to play the the music thru it? thks

      Reply
      • Roms says:
        March 8, 2015 at 16:58

        No need to install a new driver, asus essence st and stx are supported with this distrib

        Reply
      • Steve says:
        March 10, 2015 at 13:47

        Building a system using asus xonar essence st pci card .Just using the drivers built into Audiophile linux which are standard drivers which are used by most linux systems ubuntu etc.I have now changed my motherboard to gigabyte intel which does not have onbourd hdmi sound .I have also found that using standard motherbords is better ,so going going back to using pentuim 4 it is giving better results less conflicts ,thats only my opinion and that is only using linux system not windows. I have never used the card on windows.Also i have stuck to using the pci version and i am very pleased with sound hope this helps you Steve

        Reply
  2. Dan says:
    August 25, 2014 at 05:24

    After completing restore/install and doing the final reboot, I just keep getting “Failed to execute login command”

    Any ideas?

    Dan

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      August 25, 2014 at 06:45

      You didn’t erase disk before installation like it says in documentation.

      Reply
      • Dan says:
        August 25, 2014 at 07:03

        I did. But I guess I will start again from scratch unless there is a way to fix it you know of.
        Dan

        Reply
        • Dan says:
          August 26, 2014 at 01:57

          Did it again and all good now.
          Looking forward to trying this out!
          Cheers

          Reply
      • htdoc says:
        January 24, 2015 at 07:01

        I am experiencing the same issue. I’ve re-done this now 4 times. It’s done exactly like in the instructions. Confirmed hardware is compatible (intel 64 bit processor, 2GB RAM, 64GB SSD, etc.).

        Everything goes perfectly. When I reboot, it gives the menu prompt for Audiophile LInux, HDT (Hardware Detection Tool), etc.

        When you select Audiophile Linux it zips through some screen text, the monitor drops out and comes back in with “Failed to execute login command”. It then goes on repeat, flashing some screen text, then monitor blacking out and coming back with the same message…

        Any insights? Thanks!

        Reply
        • mlerota says:
          January 24, 2015 at 18:49

          Erase/format disk before installation.

          Reply
          • htdoc says:
            February 3, 2015 at 20:05

            The disk is erased and formatted each time. I’ve done the exact steps in the instructions to erase and format the drive and confirmed the partition structure and drive structure and file layout each time exactly match the instructions…

            doesn’t matter… same results each time….

            next steps?????? Thanks!

          • mlerota says:
            February 4, 2015 at 20:58

            Unsupported motherboard, BIOS, etc… Can’t help you here. Try BIOS update…

  3. Tibor says:
    August 26, 2014 at 10:13

    Hello,
    I need your advise, my PC won’t boot. It says unable to find root device /dev/sda1… Any help please? Thank you

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      August 26, 2014 at 11:18

      You didn’t install AP-Linux on first disk. If you have install it on second disk (/dev/sdb) then you will have to change /etc/fstab and /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg configurations to be able to boot.

      Reply
      • Tibor says:
        August 26, 2014 at 11:23

        Yes I did, I have only one hdd plugged in sata1 and dvd-rom is ide.

        Reply
      • Tibor says:
        August 26, 2014 at 11:25

        I have everything the same like shown on the pictures, in manager I can see that it is sda1..

        Reply
  4. Robert Goerig says:
    August 26, 2014 at 22:37

    Hello, AP Linux- Team!

    I’ve concluded basic installation but now when using Terminal X I need German keyboard settings. When I type ‘-‘ I get ‘/’ at the moment so I cannot proceed with configurations. Is there a way to solve this problem easily?

    Thanks in advance!

    Can’t wait listening to AP Linux!

    Greetings, Robert

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      August 26, 2014 at 23:34

      In terminal “gedit .fluxbox/startup” and add this line
      setxkbmap de&
      so it looks like this

      /usr/bin/fbsetbg -c ~/.fluxbox/backgrounds/Audiophile-linux1920x1200.png&
      xset m 1 1&
      xset dpms 600 1200 12000&
      setxkbmap de&
      conky -c /config/.conkyrc&
      exec fluxbox

      Save the file and go to “Menu -> Exit Session” This will restart X session and you will have German keyboard from now on…

      Reply
  5. Domenico D'Angeli says:
    August 27, 2014 at 06:25

    First of all, congratulations for the great job done. I am convinced that only by creating an OS completely dedicated to the music we could get the most out with the player. Now to the problem I encountered. Is the first time that I approach the Linux world, major problems with the installation I never had, but ….. I can only play music through the digital output of my motherboard. Basically my interface, a Human Audio based on hiFace first type is not usable. I saw in your FAQ that you can copy the driver for this interface in a certain way. Here I found the problem, without root permissions is impossible. How do I run my interface. So it’s hard to make a judgment on your beautiful work. So, Jplay and especially MQN at 16/44 are better. Thanks in advance

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      August 27, 2014 at 14:05

      Root password is ‘muser’. Then you have to unlock system with ‘mount -o remount,rw /’ command. It’s at the end of this document. We tried to contact M2Tech company several times, but they didn’t respond to our emails. So we decided not to provide any help or support for M2Tech products. Maybe this will change in the future, but for now, you should ask them for help. Sorry.

      Reply
      • Domenico D'Angeli says:
        August 28, 2014 at 04:33

        Hi mierota! Thank you for your immediate response. Friday I should have time to try everything. Thanks again.

        Reply
  6. Robert Goerig says:
    August 27, 2014 at 13:12

    Hi guys!

    Thanks for turbo response! German keyboard works:-)

    But there are more problems. Only one of them:

    During workaround with Redo Backup I do only see 2 lines in fstab under etc.
    No sda’s and sdb1 to change. So I tried it after reboot from SSD where I have installed AP Linux and made the ext4 for music before. Then I could see all the lines but- now this is read only and I wasn’t able to save changings:-(
    Is the SSD the problem? Should I use a HDD?

    One more thing: Is there a compatibility list for wifi dongles? I’ve tried 3 different, without success.

    And last: What is the difference between mirror1 and 2 in the download section?

    Thanks a lot!

    Greetings, Robert

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      August 27, 2014 at 13:55

      You are trying to edit wrong fstab file :-). You are probably trying /etc/fstab of Redobackup Live system. You should edit /media/7s336d8b-or-whatever/etc/fstab. The fstab of the mounted disk. Look at the picture. Mirror1 is in Germany and the Mirror2 is in Croatia. There’s no difference in files. We have to pay hosting and bandwidth charges so it’s cheaper for us to have two providers.

      Reply
  7. Robert Goerig says:
    August 27, 2014 at 19:21

    Hi, Masters of Computer Audio!

    I’ve just finished my first test session! Great what you have done! I haven’t consumed rakija, but I’ve stored a bottle of oak barrel good red wine and what should I say- it’s empty:-). Interesting test files: Judas Priest’s ‘Stained Class’ and ‘Defenders of the Faith’- I could almost smell gazoline spirit and the exhausts of a heavy motor cycle;-) GREAT WORK Guys!
    I’ve for the moment only tested Dead beef player and expecting more of optimized MPD! Finally I want to control it via smart phone and MPDroid.

    What is your best listening experience concerning your player?- exept dsd experiments- this will come to my interest when I’ve stored enough adequate data.

    I’ve made the experiments with my ex ‘cics memory pc’ on which I’ve reduced power consumption through bios adjustments to the max.
    Further more I power the SSD of AP linux pc with extra linear regulated 5V’s and the music storage SSD with another extra power supply in similar quality.
    I’m a hardware man.

    Your AP Linux thing has lots of big potential! I’m willing to discover it all!

    Just 2 more questions:

    1) Dead beef player has software managed volume control. Isn’t it possible to disable it and set fixed ‘native’ maximum digital level?

    2) Which Wifi dongle would safely work? I need the wifi connection for smart phone control. I’ve tried the all known Edimax thing, Logilink mini adapter, some D-link stick… all of them worked perfect with linux till now. But maybe I’ve made some mistakes during configuration. How to set password exactly? Before the >>? Instead of ‘password’? Instead of >>? I’m a Linux- Idiot.
    SSIDNAME is clear.

    Again- Thanks for this fascinating peace of software!!!

    Best regards, Robert

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      August 28, 2014 at 19:53

      1) Don’t know. Put it on max and no problems. 2) WiFi is bad for sound. I don’t use it so I don’t know what wireless cards are working. You can find on internet about supported cards. If you want the best, connect your PC with network cable to the wireless access point and then use smartphone. That’s how I do it. Avoid wireless connection on your PC, and if you can, connect your motherboard with linear power supply also.

      Reply
  8. ray says:
    August 28, 2014 at 16:43

    [~]$ su ~
    Password:
    [~]# mount -o remount,rw / ~
    [~]# wpa_passphrase MYFIREWALL 45454545 >> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf ~
    [~]# wpa_supplicant -B -D wext -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf ~
    Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
    ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
    ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
    [~]# ~

    why i get invalid argument?

    Reply
    • connor says:
      January 5, 2015 at 10:45

      i have the same issue did you ever resolve it.

      Reply
    • Randy says:
      February 1, 2015 at 10:37

      I have same problem too.

      Reply
    • ray says:
      February 11, 2015 at 16:53

      Still try to figure out. Didn’t have time, I will look into that again

      What I have been doing is Bridge the second router as Client Bridge to the main router ….lol….

      Reply
    • ray says:
      February 12, 2015 at 16:18

      Solved part of the wireless problem, it was easy if someone knows linux otherwise pain in the ass to search for info like me …lol…. at least it working but not as I expected

      Error:
      ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
      ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument

      [~]$ su
      Password:muser
      option:[~]# iwconfig
      [~]# mount -o remount,rw /
      [~]# wpa_passphrase MYFIREWALL 45454545 >> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
      [~]# wpa_supplicant -B -Dnl80211 -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

      I recommend to do iwconfig first so you can see your wireless not connect, it would show either your wlan0 or eth0 —> ESSID:off/any
      SSIDNAME=myfirewall (whatever name on your router)
      Password: wireless key
      make sure no space between -Dnl80211
      no space between -c/etc and -iwlan0
      your wireless maybe wlan0 or eth0
      nl80211 or wext is the wirless driver. If you get error as above, then use nl80211

      After you got everything, type [~]# iwconfig again to see your wireless connect to the router. If it connects you would see ESSID:”myfirewall”

      I don’t know what I did but my dhcpcd wlan0 read the wrong config file, it’s support to read file from /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf instead it reads /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

      So how do I fix the dhcpcd thing? I was lazy to search on the internet so I did a quick fix …..lol….. Booth up from CD, then follow the step above how to change fstab, then navigate to the /etc folder, copy wpa_supplicant.conf to /ect/wpa_supplicant/ folder, make sure you rename the sample file in /etc/wpa_supplicant before you copy otherwise it would overwrite. I am sure there is a way to make dhcpcd to read the config file in different folder, I will find out later or some linux guru can give us a quick answer

      Another thing, wpa_supplicant doesn’t auto connect after reboot, so I have to manually start every bootup. I don’t know how to fix this issue. I may have to find out how to write a batch file otherwise I am too lazy to type the whole thing again for wireless connection

      ——-This is what I have to do after reboot to get it connect—-
      [~]$ su
      Password:muser
      [~]# wpa_supplicant -B -Dnl80211 -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

      [~]$dhcpcd wlan0 <— didn't do anything after reboot

      Root only doesn't work, still have to do as below
      [~]$ su
      Password:muser
      [~]$dhcpcd wlan0

      Anyway, this solved the wireless problem for me. The rest I will get it later when I have time. Hope, this would help someone trying to get the wireless working.

      Reply
      • connie says:
        March 5, 2017 at 18:19

        I successfully do the command:
        wpa_supplicant -B -Dnl80211 -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf,

        then I do : dhcpcd wlan0, it said “sending commands to master dhcpcd process”, but doesn’t do anything, and the IP address

        Reply
  9. David says:
    August 28, 2014 at 17:15

    Hi,

    I was just trying to upgrade from the v3 beta, and I am getting an error message cause my hardrive is smaller than 160GB(my HDD is 120GB)

    beta version did not have this error but final version does.

    Is there a any way to fix this?

    Thanks

    Reply
    • David says:
      August 28, 2014 at 18:21

      Nevermind, it works now.

      It was the redobackup problem.

      It has been all solved

      Thanks

      Reply
  10. David says:
    August 28, 2014 at 21:08

    Hello,

    Is there a anyway to bypass the dmixer?
    currently my system was upsampling 44.1k to 48k but I have just changed the alsa.conf file so that dmixer uses 44.1k as default.

    It will be great if I could just feed the source directly to the DAC

    Thanks

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      August 28, 2014 at 21:30

      Don’t change alsa.conf. Change the deadbeef config. http://www.ap-linux.com/documentation/playing-audio-in-ap-linux-with-deadbeef-player/

      Reply
      • David says:
        August 28, 2014 at 22:15

        I have changed the output from default to front speakers which solves the different sampling rate problem.

        But with this setting sometimes I hear noises which should not be present.
        Could this be the buffer problem?

        I was trying to increase the buffer size but nothing changes when I play the music and in the terminal I get

        period_size = 256
        buffer_size = 512

        every song I play even though I made buffer setting changes in the deadbeef player

        Thanks for your help

        Reply
        • Andras says:
          October 8, 2014 at 15:20

          Hi David!

          I have the same problem with an HRT Music Streamer Pro USB DAC. Have you found a solution?

          Thanks

          Reply
  11. Robert Goerig says:
    August 29, 2014 at 11:23

    Hi All!

    Does anybody know how to properly implement Wlan. I just want to avoid installing kilometers of lan cables through the house. I avoid to play music over Wlan but I need it just for smartphone control. I didn’t hear any differences between cable and wlan connection in this case.

    I am trying to get connection nearly for three days- without success. Before typing #dhcpcd wlan0 I get something like ‘RFKILL: cannot open control device’ or something like this.

    I think this would be in many other user’s interest either.

    Thanks a lot!

    Greetings, Robert

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      August 29, 2014 at 12:44

      https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_network_configuration#Automatic_setup

      Reply
  12. Robert Goerig says:
    August 29, 2014 at 12:03

    Also good would be to have static IP. Especially when potentially many components are connected to the router.

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      August 29, 2014 at 12:41

      https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_configuration#Static_IP_address

      Reply
    • mlerota says:
      September 2, 2014 at 22:01

      In terminal
      $ su
      # mount -o remount,rw /
      # systemctl disable dhcpcd.service
      edit /usr/local/sbin/startup.sh and add this:
      ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.160 netmask 255.255.255.0
      route add default gw 192.168.1.1
      echo ‘nameserver 8.8.8.8’ > /etc/resolv.conf

      Reboot

      Reply
  13. Andre Guski says:
    August 29, 2014 at 14:26

    Hallo Marko !
    Thank You for this great Musik OS !
    Cantata and MPDroid ist all what i need.
    Leema Elements DAC works perfect in this System.
    Best regards , Andre

    Reply
  14. Robert Goerig says:
    August 30, 2014 at 09:16

    Hi!

    So Wlan works now although IP Address on the right side of the screen is not indicated. That is not a problem.
    The real problem is, that after reboot it doesn’t work anymore- even not with typed dhcpcd wlan0. Maybe SSID and password are not stored. So the whole procedure has to be repeated after every boot.

    Reply
  15. Robert Goerig says:
    August 30, 2014 at 09:26

    Would it help to install everything once again and do the Wlan setup in the Redo Backup phase? Maybe password cannot be stored because of read only situation.

    Reply
  16. Robert Goerig says:
    August 30, 2014 at 10:03

    After wireless config and typing dhcpcd wlan0 it works. After reboot if I type ‘ip addr show wlan0’ it is indicated as ‘DOWN’. Even with ‘ip link set wlan0 up’ I can’t bring it UP. Immediately after wireless config it is possible to bring it UP or DOWN as I wish. So it really seems that storing password fails.

    Reply
  17. Henry KARJALAINEN says:
    August 30, 2014 at 11:55

    Is v3.0 only 64 bit compatible? My AP Linux laptop is 32bit

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      August 30, 2014 at 14:43

      Yes, only 64 bit.

      Reply
      • r_cc_c says:
        October 15, 2014 at 03:34

        do you have plan to offer 32-bit image?

        Reply
        • mlerota says:
          October 15, 2014 at 11:06

          No.

          Reply
  18. Robert Goerig says:
    August 31, 2014 at 09:01

    Still no progress with wireless configuration. But I’ve discovered, that SSID and password are properly stored in wpa_supplicant document.

    If anyone has succeeded in wireless connection, please report.
    No way to go with lan cable (Drilling holes through an 80cm wall are not permitted by rental contract):-(

    Never had such massive troubles with a simple wlan set up:-(

    Thanx, Robert

    Reply
  19. Robert Goerig says:
    September 3, 2014 at 15:24

    Thanks!

    Have static IP now. I’ve testet AP Linux for a while now and have to say that sound quality is outstanding- no comparable music players so far I know.

    Just 2 things would make AP Linux perfect for my needs and for many others I have discussed about that:

    1.) Controlling Webradio via MPDroid. It would be ok just being able to choose stations that have been stored as favorites in cantata before.
    With this feature it would be possible to disconnect monitor and running a headless system.

    2.) Visualization of local album covers through MPDroid that are in my case stored in every album folder (jpg) in /storage/Music. There are no tags because I prefer wav files for the reason of audio quality.

    I’ve tried to bring that on but I’m afraid there are some additions needed in MPD. Unfortunately Arch Linux for me is on another planet;-)

    I think having implemented this features would make AP Linux more comfortable without sacrificing sound quality.

    Greetings, Robert

    Reply
    • Tierbo says:
      November 2, 2014 at 05:28

      How did you get your wireless working? Everything went smooth with the install, only issue came up when I was configuring the wireless via my router.

      I received the below message:

      Successfully intialized wpa_supplicant
      rfkill: WLAN soft blocked
      rfkill: WLAN hard blocked
      Could not set interface wlan0 flags (UP); Operation not possible due to RF-kill
      ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
      ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument

      Any ideas???

      Reply
  20. criminalzen says:
    September 4, 2014 at 21:14

    hi… thanks for this distro .. I have been enjoying it for many months now.. I just updated from 3beta to 3 and wonder what the changes are, and how I can verify which version I am running. I have had three installs on various drives and need to identify the current before wiping the old installs. They look the same to me, unless I am not booting the current… any way to check?

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      September 5, 2014 at 08:01

      If you have Cantata installed, then you have the latest version.

      Reply
  21. Robert Goerig says:
    September 5, 2014 at 19:52

    Hi all!

    Just managed to controll radio stations via MPDroid. In cantata I choose my favorite stations and store it in created playlist ‘Radio’. Then in MPDroid library- view ‘Playlists’ has to be activated and voila- I have access to my chosen favorite stations under playlist ‘radio’. That works fine for me.

    Now only cover view is missing. That seems to be much more tricky.
    Is it possible at all? (With wav files stored; cover-jpg added in every album folder)

    BTW: Could it be that PCM level is slightly below 0db? An alternative mpd client I tried showed level at -1%.

    Greetingz, Robert

    Reply
  22. maxi says:
    September 8, 2014 at 14:23

    hello
    i have a problem with the audio file 24bit /192 ,these sound files is interrupted. I tried to modify the file mpd.conf but after restart it does not retain settings .problem only occurs in these audio files 24/192 , what can I do to get rid of this problem? i have mf v90 dac
    Thanks for your work, the sound is excellent

    Reply
    • maxi says:
      September 9, 2014 at 23:12

      the problem was the USB2.0 port of the motherboard, I moved the USB cable to another port and the problem disappeared, everything works perfectly now :).

      Reply
  23. PHG says:
    September 12, 2014 at 11:48

    Is there any sound improvment in the final version compared to the beta version? Or any other need to install the final version?
    Because: I’m happy……….. with the beta version.

    Big Thanks again!

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      September 12, 2014 at 19:57

      There are some improvements in MPD but I can’t say that the sound is better. I didn’t use beta version for a long time. But there are other improvements like better mpd client, some bugs resolved with DSD and many little things that are not related to the sound. I suggest final version. It’s at least nicer 🙂

      Reply
      • phg says:
        September 14, 2014 at 13:56

        Would be crazy if there would be a sound improvement with the final version.
        Misson impossible! I will try it after cloneing sda1 and sda2.
        To use a linear power supply is a good but not a simple solution, 19V and 3,5A in my case! And i do not know how they make the 5V and 3,3V on the Zotac board, maybe linear. I will try to use some extra filtering with 10R and 4700 or 10000uf, that should cut switching noise and give a good power buffer.
        Until then i will enjoy the beta!

        Reply
  24. duetta says:
    September 13, 2014 at 17:14

    I have the components for a AMD Kabini-based APU rig showing up next week, which I suspect will prove an ideal platform for a audiophile HTPC.

    I’ve read through both this and the beta installation thread, and I’m wondering if this final version of your V3.0 is likely to have the proper drivers for a Kabini AMD processor built in? I believe AMD is describing the video component as a Radeon HD 8400. And if not, would installing the latest AMD catalyst drivers somehow mess up your distro? I remember thinking that I could install Mint updates in the previous version, and doing so absolutely screwed up the install (and forced me to completely reinstall the OS)!!!!

    I thought it better to ask in advance, and anticipate likely problems with the install. I’m also planning to use a USB hard drive as a primary source for music – as I did with V1 and V2. I recall reading in the beta thread about some sort of issue in getting the OS to automatically mount a USB drive (as it did in V2). Is that something that I should be planning on having to deal with?

    Thanks so much for developing this.

    Sincerely,

    Matt

    Reply
    • Gianandrea says:
      October 5, 2014 at 22:49

      Hi,

      I have installed this OS on a AMD Kabini build. Sounds better than anything else I’ve tried (real-time Ubuntu, etc), but I couldn’t manage to display properly on my TV.

      I am not an expert but by fiddling with xrandr I didn’t get anywhere. The TV displays fine with Ubuntu (and even the Redo CD) but it’s shifted by 2/3 on the right with this OS.

      Has anybody got any advice on how to fix this? Should I try to install AMD Catalyst?

      Thank you

      G

      Reply
      • mlerota says:
        October 5, 2014 at 23:11

        You can try to update the system. Maybe new drivers that are out can fix your problem.
        Do:
        [~]$ su
        Password:
        [~]# mount -o remount,rw /
        [~]# pacman -Suy
        [~]# reboot
        You will have to answer to some questions. Just type Y (yes) to them.

        Reply
        • Gianandrea says:
          October 7, 2014 at 23:23

          Thank you for the quick answer. I have tried that, but no luck. It displays fine on a normal monitor, so I wonder if it’s something to do with that.

          Also, on a separate note: how would I run a script on startup? I’d like to start Spotify on startup…I tried following the Arch wiki but I couldn’t make it work.

          Will try the install again on an old hard drive if I get some time and post back if I fix the display issue now that some time has passed.

          Thanks!

          Reply
      • duetta says:
        October 11, 2014 at 09:14

        Gianandrea,

        Thanks for your response. I anticipated that not having the Catalyst drivers in AP Linux would present problems with this brand new build, so I opted for now to go with Lubuntu on it, at least initially, until I could be sure that the hardware was all functioning as expected. And even with Lubuntu, I needed to install the latest Catalyst drivers to get the desktop to fit properly on a flat screen TV. I know rather little about Linux, so I’m finding this all a bit of an adventure (especially getting all the expected HTPC features to work with a minimalist install) – especially compared to what I’m used to with Windows. My plan is now to get another hard drive and use that to build a AP-Linux 3.0 setup – so I’d be very interested in knowing how you solved your issues.

        Matt

        Reply
        • Roms says:
          February 1, 2015 at 17:54

          Hi,

          First thank you for your great distrib.

          The install went ok but when X started I had a black screen 9 times out of 10.
          My MB is an Asus E45M1-M Pro (Radeon HD6320). I tried to update the open source driver to the latest version but that didn’t solve the problem so I installed Catalyst following the instructions here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMD_Catalyst

          and now everything is fine.
          If you try to do the same make sure to rename (or delete) the existing /etc/X11/xorg.conf before running the command
          # aticonfig –initial
          otherwise it won’t work.

          Also If you have your different soundcards that keeping changing order when you reboot this: http://alsa.opensrc.org/MultipleCards tells you how how to fix a particular order.

          Roms

          Reply
  25. Robert Goerig says:
    September 18, 2014 at 22:39

    Hi all!

    Have solved cover- art issue with MPDroid. Fortunately I have stored cue sheets in every album folder. Tapping on a cue file in MPDroid’s library and adding it to playlist shows downloaded album covers. This info is for all who play wav files. Seems that mpd supports cue sheets- so it works:-)

    Greetings, Robert

    Reply
  26. andrey says:
    September 22, 2014 at 15:28

    Hello!
    Guys, pls help!!!
    After restore, I have an unknown partition on disk! No ext4. I follow the Install instructions step by step… I can create an The restore time on my system is 0.10 m. Why is it sow ?

    Reply
  27. criminalzen says:
    September 23, 2014 at 18:06

    greetings.. again thanks for the very good update to 3 final. I have solved all my “issues” except two. First, after wiping all disks and installing to disk 1, if I chose the first selection on the blue boot choice box I still get the 3beta install (although I have wiped everything two or three times), but if I choose the backup or secondary aplinux choice I boot to ap linux 3. I cannot figure out what is happening– but its not a big deal as I can boot into the new version which is a definite improvement over the beta.

    Second issue is playing dsd files with canata with mu schiitz optical modi. When I try and play a dff file it plays but silently-no sound a all. I have the mpd settings default, and realize most use usb dacs. I have done some research but found no infol. Do you have any suggestions?

    Again thanks for your work. I am enjoying spectacular sound with a system, including dac and computer that is under $300 🙂

    Reply
  28. Grant says:
    September 28, 2014 at 02:54

    how can I stop the screen shut off? When it does the music program stops too. I am new to linux any help would be appreciated.

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      October 5, 2014 at 23:26

      Edit this file /home/muser/.fluxbox/startup. Find this line:
      xset dpms 600 1200 12000&
      And change that line with this:
      xset -dpms&

      Reply
  29. David says:
    October 20, 2014 at 00:00

    Hi,
    Many thanks for your time and trouble in making this exciting distro.
    I have had a few installation problems that I recount here for the benefit of others.
    I have an AMD 3000+ single core processor on an ECS motherboard with 2GB RAM. Prior to installation I reconfigured the PC with a DVDRW drive as first boot and a 120MB OCZ SSD as the only other disk. A USB key was used to supply the ap-linux img files from the downloaded zip file. After two identical failures, detailed later, I replaced the SSD with a ITB HDD.

    In every instance I followed the v3.0 instructions exactly (I was very careful to double check each step).

    After the process was complete I made the SSD (or later, the HDD) the first boot device.

    In each instance on the first reboot I obtained the AP linux start-up menu and selected the first option.

    Errors were reported during the start-up with fsck and a message indicating that the /dev/sda1 device was not mounted for read/write.

    I sorted this by going back into disk utilities and editing the fstab in the first partition so that /dev/sda1 was ‘rw’ and not ‘ro’. This particular error then disappeared.

    The next error encountered was more complex. The exact errors are detailed at the end of this post. Please note those errors also happened before I made the “rw” fix above.

    Interestingly when I chose the “AP Linux Fallback” option from the boot menu the AP linux started up without any errors, and I was able to make the suggested edits in Xterminal.

    I hope you will be able to suggest a way to fix whatever goes wrong with selection of the first “Audiophile Linux” option – there must be some difference between the first and second options?

    Error messages:

    waiting 10 seconds for device /dev/sda1 …
    ERROR: device ‘/dev/sda1’ not found. Skipping fsck.
    ERROR: Unable to find root device ‘dev/sda1’.
    You are being dropped to a recovery shell
    Type ‘exit’ to try and continue booting
    h:can’t access tty; job control turned off
    rootfs /]# [at this point the PC freezes]

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      October 20, 2014 at 06:53

      This version of AudioPhile Linux is designed to be read only. Don’t try to fix it. This is not an error. For rw you have /config partition and /storage partition. Before installation on any disk, wipe all partition and data on that disk. Leave it unformatted.

      Reply
      • David says:
        October 20, 2014 at 22:48

        Thank you for your prompt reply.
        I will change fstab back so that /dev/sda1 is “ro”. Unfortunately this will reintroduce the fsck error warnings that /dev/sda1 is not set to rw access. I can live with that if it does not affect whether the distro works properly afterward.

        Unfortunately you don’t comment on the second set of errors as detailed in my earlier post. Subsequent to these the PC freezes up completely. I am not a Linux guru and I don’t understand why the fallback option in the start up menu gets me to an apparently functioning AP Linux destop but the top of menu option doesn’t.

        I will see if I can find some documentation to explain the difference between the released and fallback options, but if this problem is a known feature it would be good to know what the implications are for the end-user. Hopefully comparing the functional fallback scripts with the non-functioning primary option scripts might reveal why the primary option fails to start the desktop and freezes my PC. Any explanation would be very welcome and appreciated, as would any information concerning the schedule for any potential fixed release.

        As my stepwise install exactly replicated all the screen dumps given in the installation instructions, I am puzzled as to why no-one else has encountered this problem. (Earlier in the list Tribor seems to have had a very similar unresolved problem with the installation).

        If you suggest that I have done something wrong during the install I will happily accept any suggestions you have. If not I would like some information please about the difference of v3.0 to the fallback option so I can evaluate whether any difference in features/performance is sufficient to make me look for another distro.

        I appreciate all the effort that goes into creating a distro and do not mean to seem critical. I may be able to try again on a different PC in the future, but I am not convinced the experienced problem is related to hardware. I have exactly followed the installation instructions 8 times on the current target PC and I really cannot see anything I may have done wrong.

        Yours sincerely,
        David Gray

        Reply
        • David says:
          October 20, 2014 at 22:55

          P.S. Both the SSD and HDD I used were new and previously unused. My first step was to ensure that any existing partitioning was wiped and the disk not initialised. I will do this again and specifically ensure the disk is not formatted, either to NTFS, ext4 or any other filesystem. I will report back if that makes any difference to the result.

          Reply
          • David says:
            October 20, 2014 at 23:41

            Results:
            Well I tried again. I specifically checked that the SSD was connected to SATA port1 and was selected as the first boot device in the BIOS. The DVDRW drive was installed on port SATA2 and was selected in the BIOS as the secondary boot device. The AP-Linux files were available on a usb-key inserted before booting from the DVDRW drive into the Redo-Recovery And Backup program. Once this was running the first step was to wipe the partition data on the SSD as per instructions. I followed the instructions and restored the AP-linux to /dev/sda1 with its accompanying /dev/sda2 partitions. So these were the only partions on the SSD. As instructed I then created the ext4 partition as “New Volume” for all the remaining space on the SSD.
            I removed the USB key from the system.
            As instructed I edited /etc/fstab to change /dev/sdb1 to /dev/sda3 and saved.
            I removed the DVD from the drive and rebooted.
            The system started up and produced the blue background menu to select the AP Linux option. I selected the first option (top of the menu) and AP Linux started to load.
            I obtained exactly the same error as reported earlier, so I won’t bother typing it out again.
            The AP Linux system couldn’t find /dev/sda1 and the PC froze up.
            As the first sign of madness is repeating the same actions in the hope of a different result I am giving up now unless someone can come up with a different suggestion than I didn’t follow the instructions properly!

          • mlerota says:
            October 21, 2014 at 00:29

            If you can boot fallback kernel (2nd option) send me an output of these commands by email and I will try to help you. Become root with ‘su’. Send output of ‘fdisk -l’ command. Send me this files: /etc/fstab and /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg. Send me your exact motherboard model. The mail is marko@ap-linux.com.

          • mlerota says:
            October 26, 2014 at 12:15

            You did everything OK. I think it’s the motherboard problem. Autodetect doesn’t work so your disk is not recognized. The fallback image utilizes the same configuration file as the default image, except the autodetect hook is skipped during creation, thus including a full range of modules. The autodetect hook detects required modules and tailors the image for specific hardware, shrinking the initramfs. So you can use fallback option but your memory print will be bigger. Change the syslinux.cfg file if you want fallback image to be default.

  30. Claudio says:
    October 21, 2014 at 19:19

    Hello Mr. Lerota,
    I need to set the Spanish keyboard on my laptop. I bought on Ebay (super deal, but with German keyboard …). I put the sticker “transform” in Spanish, but loading AP configured Linux v3 have another keyboard.

    Please can you help me?

    Thank you.
    Claudio.

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      October 21, 2014 at 23:11

      Yes :-). Find in comments how to set german keyboard and change ‘de’ to ‘es’ or ‘sp’ I guess 🙂

      Reply
  31. Das says:
    October 22, 2014 at 07:05

    Indeed your ” AUDIOHILE LINUX ” specially dedicated to music lovers who want crystal clear music is really outstanding..OUT-OF-THE-CROWD from other LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS..i have never heard this much sound clarity from any operating system’s i must say…Great Job..thanks a lot…

    How to set maximum voume in system ? or by default settings optimized for great output?

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      October 22, 2014 at 14:51

      Values are set to 100%. That’s default and best value. Some cards may not have this value by default. You can check yours like this:
      Open terminal and type alsamixer. Select your card see if master is set to 100%.

      Reply
  32. David says:
    October 26, 2014 at 19:06

    Re: my problem booting /dev/sda.
    Thank you for your help. It does seem likely that the motherboard is failing to autodetect the drive as you suggest. I will use the fallback option. I look forward to experimenting with this distro.
    Regards,
    David

    Reply
  33. David says:
    October 26, 2014 at 21:15

    English keyboard mapping:

    I found AP-Linux defaulted to a US layout. I followed your instructions for reconfiguring for a German keyboard, but substututed the following line:
    setxkbmap gb& for setxkbmap de&. (NB setxkbmap uk& did not work). This resolved the problems with keyboard layout except for the £ symbol. Initially this key gave a #, but now the keyboard just produces a beep and no printed character. The ¦ from Ctrl+Alt+` also does not work. I can live with this.

    This fix also cleared up problems with the Misc|Text Editor-root and Misc|Text Editor-user items. The kb layout now matches the UK layout described above.

    One query about these text editor options. If you go into the settings|save language option, the only language available is hebrew. Is this expected?

    Regards,
    David Gray

    Reply
  34. Antonio Scappaticci says:
    October 26, 2014 at 22:23

    Hi. I’d like to make a permanent installation on a USB stick, and not an HD. Is it possible with this distro? How big should the USB stick be? Any negative effects in doing that?

    Reply
  35. Yves says:
    November 6, 2014 at 11:49

    Hi Guys!

    First thanks for the great work. After I have taken the installation hurdle, almost anything works fine as far i can see at the moment. But there is one thing that makes me write this lines.

    Only Cantata makes trouble no matter what source is selected, web stream or file. The Problem is a periodic crack with a frequency of approximately 3 Hz (tack, tack, tack). It is evenly loud independent from the actual plays sound. Particularly loud is the disturbance of the sample rate 16/44100. 24/44100 the disturbance is not missing but much quieter.

    And as already mentioned, audacious or deadbeef having with the same files no problem at all. The difference i can see, is audacious and deadbeef are working with PCM and Cantata is using DSD. Can this be the problem?

    I have no idea where to search and Arch Linux is new to me.

    Only for the sake of completeness, the sound card:
    **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
    card 0: DX [Xonar DX], device 0: Multichannel [Multichannel]
    Subdevices: 0/1
    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
    card 0: DX [Xonar DX], device 1: Digital [Digital]
    Subdevices: 1/1
    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

    Please excuse my terrible (google translate) english 😉

    Regards Yves

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      November 6, 2014 at 12:15

      Put “#” in front of buffer_time and period_time in every line of mpd.conf file and restart MPD. This configuration is little tweaked
      and maybe not for every DAC. Putting # in front of this lines will cause MPD to use default values that may be better for your DAC.

      Reply
  36. Yves says:
    November 6, 2014 at 13:15

    Thank you for the competent and quick help!
    This was precisely the problem.

    regards Yves

    Reply
  37. Tierbo says:
    November 8, 2014 at 19:05

    How did you get your wireless working? Everything went smooth with the install, only issue came up when I was configuring the wireless via my router.

    I received the below message:

    Successfully intialized wpa_supplicant
    rfkill: WLAN soft blocked
    rfkill: WLAN hard blocked
    Could not set interface wlan0 flags (UP); Operation not possible due to RF-kill
    ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
    ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument

    Any ideas???

    Reply
  38. Manlio says:
    November 25, 2014 at 15:26

    Hi, thank you for your great work. I installed the AP_linux and everything is fine.
    Great sound!!!
    Just a problem: i’ve got my Film and music collection in an external disk formatted in ex-fat
    When I try to mount it, I can’t….message is unknown file system.
    What can I do? I’m a linux newbie….
    Thanks

    Reply
  39. Pierluigi says:
    November 26, 2014 at 23:14

    Please, how can configure wireless network? I don’t find the old menu like cinnamon…thanks in advance.
    Regards

    Reply
  40. Richard says:
    December 1, 2014 at 17:38

    Hi,

    thanks for this great piece of work. Installation was a piece of cake thanks to your foolproof instructions.

    There’s just one small problem left: As a mpd-client I use MPoD on my iPad. To show the locally stored covers there has to be a webserver running. This was no problem so far with Ubuntu-Studio which I used before.

    With AP-Linux I failed to install a webserver. I tried both apache and Lighttpd. I got “403 Forbidden” errors what ever I tried.

    Can you provide a blueprint on how to get a webserver up and running on your great installation?

    Thanks,
    Richard

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      December 2, 2014 at 09:27

      Webserver is up and running if you are using AP-Linux v3.0. Open a browser and point to your ip address.

      Reply
      • Richard says:
        December 2, 2014 at 22:23

        Thanks for your quick response!

        Set up a fresh v3.0 to make sure nothing was messed up – still 403 Forbidden errors in browser after typing IP-address or http//:server1

        What can I do?

        Thanks for your patience!!!!

        Richard

        Reply
        • mlerota says:
          December 2, 2014 at 23:55

          Open terminal
          $ su
          # mount -o remount,rw /
          # gedit /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
          Find line where is “autoindex on” and uncomment it.Save the file and then restart nginx with
          # systemctl restart nginx.service

          I don’t have any V3.0 around me to check right now.

          Reply
          • Richard says:
            December 3, 2014 at 21:18

            Solved!!!!!

            Many thanks,
            Richard

  41. akellu4 says:
    December 5, 2014 at 20:43

    Dear, mlerota!

    I can’t select my soundcard (Asus Xonar U7) in alsamixer , when I press F6 and navigate to asus xonar u7, press enter –
    alsamixer crashed and outputed:
    “cannot load mixer controls: Broken pipe”

    Please, help me, I won’t to use ASUS xonar U7 Coaxial digital output (S/PDIF) to my external DAC (24-96) , in Deadbeaf there is no sound when select “Alsa output plugin -> Xonar U7 IEC 958(S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output…

    Reply
  42. Siklopz WuMingJen says:
    December 6, 2014 at 02:38

    This is a great idea…exactly what I’ve been looking for. Now, I have a stupid question, but I’ve always made it a habit of doing things the hard way. Is it possible to simply use the “dd” command in terminal to install the distro to a partition, instead of using the whole disk? Then you could use Rescatux or GRUB customizer (in a currently installed distro) to recognize the OS and add it to the GRUB menu, and go from there. I’ve used a similar formula to move a distro to a new, larger HD before, when the convoluted menus of Clonezilla confused me and put me off. If I’m wrong, please let me know. I’m just brainstorming. Thanks.

    Siklopz

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      December 7, 2014 at 16:57

      Yes, it is possible using rsync, cp and other tools.

      Reply
  43. Jan says:
    December 8, 2014 at 14:25

    I would be interested to do a side by side installation with Ubuntu 14.10, I have some experience with Linux, only as a user though. Would that be possible as with any other Linux distribution or does that have special requirements?

    Thanks!

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      December 8, 2014 at 15:10

      It would be possible if you first install AP-Linux then Ubuntu. On Ubuntu installation you don’t select
      grub to be installed on MBR but somewhere else and you know how to edit syslinux in AP-Linux.

      Reply
  44. Mishi says:
    December 12, 2014 at 18:56

    Hi everebody,

    can’t fix aplinux to work with firewire fca202 behringer, finally it’s recognized during
    ffado-test ListDevices
    but I can’t move forward…

    PLEASE HELP !!!!

    Reply
  45. Michail I. Potemkin says:
    December 30, 2014 at 12:12

    So I followed the instruktions regarding the storage partition but I end with a partition that is automounted read only. The only difference is that the partition is on a usb disk. fstab is exactly how it should be (e.g. rw flag is set) but the mtab shows the ro flag. Any help?

    Regards,

    Michail

    Reply
    • Michail I. Potemkin says:
      December 30, 2014 at 13:26

      Nevermind my comment. Faulty hardware :-/

      Reply
  46. limpbizkit says:
    December 31, 2014 at 10:40

    Hi everybody ,
    i had too the error when configuring wifi :
    ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
    ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument

    I replaced -Dwext by -Dnl80211 and now it works .
    But on every reboot i must type the wpa_supplicant commands to enable wifi .
    Any idea to fix this ?
    Thanks in advance .

    Reply
  47. Lukas says:
    January 8, 2015 at 15:55

    Hi everybody,
    I’ve successfully installed ap Linux without dvd reader.
    Redo is installed in sd card with unetbootin in Windows 7 system.
    Unzipped Ap-linux files are copied in usb stick.

    All works fine! Installation complete 100% on AMD 64bit.
    ZOTAC FUSION-ITX WiFi Amd 350A
    Hard disk SSD Ocz Vertex 3 Sata Ssd 2.5 – 60gb
    Ram Kingston Kvr1333d3s9/4g, Sodimm Ddr3

    Reply
  48. Lucans says:
    January 9, 2015 at 15:22

    Hi guys!
    I’m trying to install your powerfull OS but i have a question> i don’t understand if i can install it on a partition, because i have only one computer, only one drive and i can’t do my business without Ubuntu on my pc. Is it possible to install it on a partition or it requires always the entire disk? Thanks for all.
    Luca

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      January 11, 2015 at 12:32

      It is possible but it’s very, very complicated. We don’t have instructions how to do it.

      Reply
  49. cheukching says:
    January 12, 2015 at 02:40

    when I type mkdir /storage/music
    return read only
    what can I do

    Reply
  50. Bas says:
    January 29, 2015 at 17:27

    Hello
    a question
    i have installed ap linux several times but ill still have the same problem

    every time i get stuck by making the music folder in storage
    i don’t have permission to make it, it say read only
    in file manger the map storage has a lock icon

    i tried to remove the storage folder en re make it
    then i have no icon locked but it stil wont work

    how can i read the music from my nas

    i hope somebody can help me i really the looks of ap linux

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      January 29, 2015 at 18:09

      Where do you mount storage directory? On which partition? On /dev/sda3? /dev/sdb1?
      Look for /storage entry in /etc/fstab and edit this file accordingly. Storage must have
      “rw” flag. But first you must unlock the system to be able to do that. It’s in documentation.

      Reply
  51. dorian says:
    January 30, 2015 at 22:27

    Hi Marko,

    First of all let me thank you and congratulate you for your work, AP-Linux is IMO the best OS for computer audio. I’m a linux newbie and I would like to ask you if there’s a way to control the audio PC remotely via remote desktop or VNC and how can that be done.

    If that’s too much trouble, I think I have found a better alternative to that in nomachine free edition ( I installed NoMachine for Linux TAR.GZ x86_64 with
    $ sudo /usr/NX/nxserver –install redhat command) and to my surprise it worked and I managed to login to the audio PC, but I could not see the desktop. This is the message I received in the NoMachine client that I have installed on my Windows PC: “The server was unable to make the local display available or access to the local display is disabled.”

    Can anyone please tell me how to enable the local display or how to get around this problem ?

    Many thanks in advance !

    Reply
  52. Bas says:
    January 31, 2015 at 15:16

    @ mlerota

    you ware Right it in documentation i misted to change b in to an a.
    en its working amazingly well en sound great, better then windows.

    i stile have one question
    i don know what to write for shortcut in ( /storage/Music) to be able to read music from my nas

    i have tried many thing but no success
    my nas music is at smb://zyxel/music/

    i have tried many thing but no success
    i don know what to write instead ln -s /media/some/other/dir /storage/Music/other-dir

    i hope you can help
    thnx

    Reply
    • limpbizkit says:
      January 31, 2015 at 16:46

      hello , try this :
      //192.168.x.x/music /storage/music cifs uid=1000,noexec,rw,user 0 0

      Replace 192.168.x.x by the ip adress of your NAS

      Reply
      • Bas says:
        February 1, 2015 at 20:05

        @ limpbizkit thank you for your reaction

        unfortunately this does not work, i get the message:
        ln: target ‘0’ is not a directory

        I have tried to write it many ways but no success
        do you have any other suggestions

        i don’t know what to write instead
        ln -s /media/some/other/dir /storage/Music/other-dir

        there has to be a way to make this work. I have a lot of music at my NAS but I am not able to play it.

        Reply
  53. M-P says:
    February 6, 2015 at 18:48

    Zdravo,

    I’ve install the V3 on a laptop hp envy15 1050ca with an Hiface 2 sending data to my dac through spdif.

    I already have the V2 on a desktop Dell optiflex 745 with an M-Audio – Audiophile 192 sound card sending data to my dac through spdif that combo work flawlessly…

    The problem I’m dealing with now, with the new installation is that Deadbeef and Audacious after a while freezes. No more music and the player won’t close and ending the session takes a lot of time.

    The cat infos for rate, buffer and period is the same as Deadbeef and I tried hiface 2 in default and front speakers mode…

    Any clues?

    Hvala Vam,

    M-P
    Quebec, Canada

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      February 6, 2015 at 23:51

      Try to change some options in BIOS of that HP envy. Some Laptops are configured for Windows and
      sometimes there are few options in BIOS that change this behavior so your laptop can be compatible
      with other operating systems. This might be the problem of freezing. Also I don’t know where your
      music is located. If it’s on external USB disk, try to put few music files on internal hard drive
      and disconnect this disk. Sometimes USB disk can cause problems. USB disks are generally bad. They
      slower the PC while they are connected. They should not be considered for everyday use. Only for
      backup and transfer of files.

      Reply
      • M-P says:
        February 7, 2015 at 00:07

        It’s a bios problem … Another Windows golden cage that Envy 15… Before installing Ap-linux V3 on it I’ve tried Ubuntu 14.04 with lots of bugs so…..

        Just upgrade my Dell optiflex 745 with V3 … Working perfectly … :o)

        M-P

        Reply
  54. Bostjan says:
    February 7, 2015 at 19:51

    Hi,
    i am trying to install AP V3 to laptop Lenovo R400.
    I put fresh SSD inside and USB (32GB NTFS) with AP-Linux-v3.

    My problem is that i dont see USB drive when chosing source drive only SSD drive. USB is mounted.

    Any help with newbee? 🙂

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      February 8, 2015 at 23:56

      Change USB stick. I have Western Digital USB disk that I use for occasional file transfer
      and sometimes it’s not recognized on some PCs. Doesn’t matter if it’s Windows OS or Linux.

      Reply
  55. jtsunxp says:
    February 12, 2015 at 02:49

    hello,
    Thanks your perfect works to privide such so good system to listen music.
    Now I want to install aplinux under windows7 using easybcd. but my notebook only has one hard disk and I dont want to delete windows7, so I have to install aplinux to a Usb hard disk , installing looks like perfect.
    Now my problem is : cant boot aplinux using grub. how to write menu.lst ?
    my usbhd id is (hd1,0) ? grub cant find kernel/initrd file.
    Can you help me ? or any other install suggest ?

    Reply
    • jtsunxp says:
      February 12, 2015 at 05:06

      The following is my menu.lst:
      title Aplinux
      root (hd1,0)
      kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet splash
      initrd /boot/initrd.img

      but grub report error: cant find file

      Reply
      • Ray says:
        February 15, 2015 at 03:21

        Boot up with CD, open Disk Tools -> Disk Utility to find out what the USB report as /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1 or else, then modify the ‘fstab and syslinux.conf’. Look at instruction above with pictures and how to

        Reply
        • jtsunxp says:
          February 15, 2015 at 14:55

          Thanks a lot ! done. Now can boot aplinux from usbhd.
          Now my notebook is installed two systems: wn7 and aplinux.

          Thanks again.

          Reply
  56. David says:
    February 19, 2015 at 08:49

    Hello,

    I have connected new DAC to the ap-linux 3.0 but I am getting no sound
    The card is correctly recognized but no sound is produced
    When I play the music through deadbeef it start playing the song but nothing comes out of the speaker
    The DAC works perfectly on windows, so problem is not the DAC.

    It will be great if you could tell me what I could do to get the sound on your beautiful OS

    Thanks

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      February 19, 2015 at 08:57

      Open terminal and type ‘alsamixer’. Select your soundcard and toggle muted sections or raise volume of the ones that are down. If this helps, reboot pc and do it again but first put system in read write mode so the ALSA settings could be saved.

      Reply
      • David says:
        February 19, 2015 at 09:03

        The volume is at 100 and USB DAC is not muted at all in the alsamixer

        Is there any other solutions?

        Thanks for your help

        Reply
        • mlerota says:
          February 19, 2015 at 09:38

          Maybe you didn’t select correct output device in preferences of Deadbeef. I suggest using Cantata/MPD player.

          Reply
          • David says:
            February 19, 2015 at 16:43

            In deadbeef correct output is selected.
            I did try the cantata it has the same problem just like deadbeef.
            My another DAC works right away but for this new DAC it is recognized well but no sound though.

            Thanks

  57. Mike Cox says:
    February 24, 2015 at 21:42

    I have just tried upgrading my working APL v3 PC from a hdd to an ssd. The installation works perfectly but when I then boot the PC after the initial start up screen the display goes blank and then I get a broken up display. The PC has booted as when I press the power button briefly it goes through the shutdown routine and the display does become sort of readable.

    Changing back to the hdd and the system boots just fine. Do you have any suggestions as to why this is happing and what I can do to fix it?

    Thanks

    Mike
    PS Great sounding distribution, many thanks.

    Reply
  58. Mike Nelson says:
    February 28, 2015 at 21:40

    Hello

    I downloaded the 2 files , AP-Linux V3 zip. , Redobackup CD image, after
    doing a check of md5 file for AP-Linux V3 after unzipping , there is a no match ,
    and a disk created from the Redobackup CD image will not boot at startup so I am letting you know these results.

    Regards
    Mike Nelson

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      March 1, 2015 at 01:18

      Thanks Mike. The files are fine. We have many downloads a day and you are the first to report this in last few months. Sometimes people experience connection problems over the network and some download managers (browsers) doesn’t know how to handle that. And then files get corrupted. This probably happened to you so you will have to download it again and check md5 file. Thanks anyway for reporting.

      Reply
      • Mike Nelson says:
        March 2, 2015 at 21:44

        Hello mlerota

        Thanks for the reply, I have the OS up and running now and I am very impressed by the sound . There are a few glitches but as I have not used Linux before it is no surprise. I have been using windows and computers since the Dos days , and I just need some recommended reading material for linux commands and system overviews to get up to speed , have you got any recommendations by chance?

        Main trouble so far is as a stand alone boot drive it works fine , but when I add my windows bootable drive, the linux drive won’t boot while the Windows 7 drive will boot in the dual drive configuration.

        The error message I get is ” the root device is not configured to be mounted read write . It may be FSCK’D later ”

        Regards

        Mike Nelson

        Reply
  59. usul says:
    March 26, 2015 at 05:27

    Hello,
    The installer program does not recognise my USB stick with the APL-v3 files, when I try to select the source drive (though the Disk Utility and File Manager see the USB stick fine). Any thoughts on what the issue might be?
    Thanks.

    Reply
    • usul says:
      March 26, 2015 at 09:54

      Sorted it out. The USB stick had to be partitioned as a “Master Boot Record”.

      Reply
  60. tom says:
    March 28, 2015 at 10:09

    Ciao Mlerota, intanto complimenti per l’OS, è super!!!. Ma ho seri problemi con la cofigurazione della mia scheda audio EMU 1212m PCIe, sembra non esistere… Qualche suggerimento?
    Saluti e grazie.

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      April 10, 2015 at 09:16

      English only please…

      Reply
  61. mark says:
    April 21, 2015 at 04:55

    can i partition my C drive and then install audiophile linux on the newly created partition the same as in the instructions or will the whole of the C drive be formatted at setup?

    Reply
    • mark says:
      April 21, 2015 at 12:07

      if it is possible to do this, if you could just list the basic steps and i can use Google from there on in, thanks

      Reply
      • mlerota says:
        April 21, 2015 at 15:41

        Yes it is possible. The basic steps are: 1. Install windows on disk A, 2. Install AP-Linux on disk B., 3. Make partition on disk A for AP-Linux. 4. Copy content from disk B to Linux partition on disk A. 5. Change many things on Linux partition on disk A. 6. Reboot and hope for the best. 🙂

        Reply
    • mlerota says:
      April 21, 2015 at 15:32

      No, the whole drive will be erased. It’s the first thing in requirements “Forget side to side installation with windows.”

      Reply
  62. Borys123 says:
    April 30, 2015 at 17:16

    Hey!
    I installed AP Linux and I have a problem. It doesn’t recognise my soundcard – Asus Xonar Xense (it’s not on the list). It does, on the other hand, recognise the NVIDIA audio outputs, it also works with my notebook. I guess the problem are missing drivers or something? What can I do?

    Reply
  63. Eric24 says:
    May 4, 2015 at 05:03

    My mother board is GA-990FXA-UD7(Rev 3.0), the USB2.0 ports not work normally. My mouse and usb stick are not be detected. The USB3.0 ports work well. No idea how to fix it ?

    Reply
  64. Todd Messner says:
    May 5, 2015 at 23:25

    Could you indicate how this installation can be made headless? I would like to install VNC server ideally, but will be able to work with SSH if necessary. I don’t see any package tools on this distro such as APT or YUM. Can these tools be built from source or is there a better way?

    Reply
  65. atazanga says:
    May 8, 2015 at 16:58

    Hello,

    Just to tell you thank you for this great job ! Very good documentation and a great system !!! I have tested many systems, but this one is the best !

    My audio system is :
    Core i5 + USB stick 64 Gb + Musical Fidelity V-DAC 2
    Denon amp + JBL E-100 ==> sounds great.

    Please continue like this !
    Atazanga.

    Reply
  66. Borys says:
    May 11, 2015 at 19:36

    Do you know something about my Xonar Xense issue I mentioned before? (sorry to disturb you, I just hope to be finally able to use AP Linux one day 😉 )

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      May 11, 2015 at 20:02

      Sorry. There are many DACs. I can’t know them all.

      Reply
  67. hazard says:
    May 13, 2015 at 13:49

    I installed AP Linux last night. When I boot up, I get a menu with options – Audiophile Linux
    AP Linux Fall Back.

    Audiophile Linux won’t start, but AP Linux fall back does actually work OK. Is this normal? Is there any problems with using AP Linux fall back?

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      May 14, 2015 at 20:12

      Search for “fallback” on this page. There’s explanation few comments earlier what fallback is.

      Reply
  68. Robert Görig says:
    June 9, 2015 at 10:28

    Hello Marko!

    Does APLinux also work with Intel NUC- Systems?
    Is there any experience?

    Thanx in advance!

    Robert

    Reply
  69. Jochem says:
    July 21, 2015 at 20:20

    Hey there,

    I really dig this audiophile Linux and would love to give my old laptop a second life! Although you state a minimum HDD size of 27 Gb, Redo says the backup file extracts to 28 gigs more than my 100 Gb SSD. Any suggestions?

    Keep up the good work!

    Sincerely, Jochem

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      July 21, 2015 at 20:23

      It’s something like that. Around 28 gigs. I don’t know the exact number in bytes 🙂

      Reply
    • mlerota says:
      July 21, 2015 at 20:25

      If it says this, then something is not ok. Try to install it nevertheless.

      Reply
  70. Sterling says:
    July 22, 2015 at 21:15

    Hi I was wondering if there’s anyway to install this without a CD-ROM. I have a netbook and no way of hooking the ROM to it.

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      July 22, 2015 at 23:53

      Yes there is. Just read this article and there you will find how this can be done.
      http://www.tnt-audio.com/sorgenti/audiophile_linux2_e.html

      Reply
  71. Eyeguy says:
    August 16, 2015 at 01:54

    Installed ap-Linux 3.1 on HP Compaq 8510w workstation-laptop. No MD5 for 3.1 (?) but ap-Linux boots and runs well. Thank you. Ripped my first CD and this plays on laptop (only).

    1) I see from the ap-Linux list that NuForce DAC is supported / works. NuPrime (upmarket follow-on from NuForce) has only a custom driver for windows and a standard driver for Mac and no mention of Linux. My NuPrime IDA-8 is not recognised by ap-Linux. I have asked NuPrime about Linux drivers. Anything that I can try at the ap-Linux end?

    List of devices is
    card 0: Intel [HDAIntel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
    Subdevices: 1/1
    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

    card 0: Intel [HDAIntel], device 0: AD198x Digital [AD198x Digital]
    Subdevices: 1/1
    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

    2) there is a significant delay on boot at
    server1 login: [ xx.xxxx ]
    ….
    ….
    with multiple lines showing
    Is this a normal boot process?

    Thank you, very grateful

    Reply
    • Eyeguy says:
      August 16, 2015 at 02:31

      Hmmmm All is not what it seems.

      The ripped CD track was played last night by right-clicking …
      Today the FLAC files do not exist … Back to basics & the ripper

      Reply
  72. Eyeguy says:
    August 16, 2015 at 03:51

    The instructions above need to say:

    [~]$ su
    Password:
    [~]# mount -o remount,rw /
    [~]# mkdir /storage/Music
    [~]# chown -R muser:muser /storage

    Otherwise you end up with no change of ownership, and multiple /home/muser/Music files on the system partition.

    I presume I can somehow delete the /home2/ directory?

    Thanks
    Cheers
    Geoff

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      August 16, 2015 at 09:38

      Don’t remove this directory. Don’t remove anything.

      Reply
  73. Eyeguy says:
    August 16, 2015 at 20:51

    Gotcha, thanks.

    I’ll do a clean install & upload music when I have worked it out sufficiently. Learning lots, including a bit of Linux.

    Main issue is Linux driver for NuPrime IDA-8. I’ll post & make a donation if I can get that sorted.

    Cheers

    Reply
  74. mnbvvbnm says:
    August 25, 2015 at 07:08

    what are the commands to install Clementine ,please tell me

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      August 25, 2015 at 12:09

      [~]$ su
      Password:
      [~]# mount -o remount,rw /
      [~]# pacman -Suy
      [~]# pacman -S clementine

      Reply
  75. jsk79 says:
    August 31, 2015 at 12:55

    Can I have both Linix and Win7 on my PC ?
    Based on my requirement I would like to boot the OS.

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      August 31, 2015 at 13:16

      It can be done but you have to be an expert in Linux to be able to do it. The process is too complicated for the beginners so I decided not to make a documentation how to do it.

      Reply
  76. fog16 says:
    September 5, 2015 at 18:13

    when I type mkdir /storage/music
    return read only
    what can I do ?

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      September 5, 2015 at 18:39

      Disable read only mode. Read install instructions.

      Reply
  77. Thomas says:
    September 8, 2015 at 22:08

    Hello – Just successfully install V3.1 and it’s working great.

    It’s installed on a netbook, and I would like the monitor to shut off/blank after a minute or two to save battery life. Or, I’d like it to keep running when I close the laptop lid.

    Could someone please explain how I can add screensaver/monitor controls?

    Thanks, Thom.

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      September 8, 2015 at 22:42

      Look at .fluxbox/startup file and change xset dmps 600 to 60. These are seconds. Restart Fluxbox and you will have new settings.

      Reply
      • Thomas says:
        September 9, 2015 at 12:00

        Excellent. I used 120 instead of 60 for a bit more screen time and it works like a charm. Do I need to change the other two numbers in xset dmps (“1200 and 12000&”) to prevent it from shutting down while playing music?

        One other question: how do I reset the screen resolution to 1024×600?

        Right now I can’t see the top or bottom of windows because my screen it tiny, making it a little cumbersome.

        Thanks. Thom.

        Reply
        • mlerota says:
          September 9, 2015 at 18:53

          You don’t need to change the other two numbers. The resolution should be
          automatic unless you are using some old CRT analog monitor. You can find
          on the internet how to set up resolution of your choice.

          Reply
  78. Tomaz says:
    September 10, 2015 at 04:39

    brilliant!

    Reply
  79. soundprizm says:
    September 11, 2015 at 21:59

    Hi,

    No matter what I do, I keep getting an error when trying to install (v3.1):

    “The drive you are attempting to restore is 26724 MB smaller than the original. You must restore to a drive that is the same size or larger than the original.”

    The only reason for this issue, that I can think of, is that the drive I am installing to is too large (3TB). I’ve tried formatting with GParted with AND without a partition–nothing seems to work. It would be nice if I could just install it like Arch, which is my primary OS on my primary PC. Any ideas on how to get around this issue?

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      September 11, 2015 at 22:25

      Huh, it’s maybe because of the 3TB hard drive. Maybe to try install on some smaller drive and then use Clonezilla to clone to the 3TB drive. Clonezilla is regularly updated and Redobackup is not. The last version is from 2012. I had to modify it to work with new hardware.

      Reply
      • soundprizm says:
        September 11, 2015 at 22:32

        Thanks! Unfortunately, is the only drive I have for my HTPC–I’ll have to come up with something in order to do that.

        The error message is weird though. It’s like Redo is creating a partition on the drive that is smaller than the image its trying to restore. Doesn’t make sense to me… lol

        Anyway… thanks for the input!

        Reply
        • Thomas says:
          September 12, 2015 at 18:22

          Just wondering: does Redobackup get far enough to create partitions on the drive? And if so, does it create 3 or 4?

          Reply
          • soundprizm says:
            September 12, 2015 at 22:19

            Yeah, I believe so. I tried a bunch of times, and I think a couple of them created 3 separate partitions; however, most of the times it didn’t get that far.

  80. ken w says:
    October 11, 2015 at 17:22

    I tried to install on a 500GB USB 3 external drive. I followed the instructions exactly, but I can’t boot to it. I erased and tried again several times. When I boot into Ubuntu 14.04.3 and look up the ap-Linux partition in “Disks”, it says “bootable-linux”, but I can’t get it to work

    Reply
    • ken w says:
      October 12, 2015 at 21:02

      I just wanted to add that if ap-linux can’t run off an external HD or thumb drive, I’d like to know. I’ll get another SSD for it. I’m really wanting to give it a go!!

      Thanks!!

      Reply
      • mlerota says:
        October 12, 2015 at 22:05

        Audiophile Linux can run from external hard drive, but I don’t recommend any usb hard drive. Audiophile Linux should be run from real SATA or SSD drive only.

        Reply
        • ken w says:
          October 12, 2015 at 23:58

          Thanks for the response. Any idea why I can’t boot to mine?

          I’d like to try it out on my current drive if possible if only to check compatibility with my DAC and to explore the OS and what I can do with it.

          Reply
  81. ken w says:
    October 16, 2015 at 21:30

    I just installed on a new SSD, I erased per instructions, and followed all directions. When I reboot, however, I’m only given a list of options among a few ubuntu partitions I already have on another drive. If I restart and follow the boot menu selection for mo mobo ( Gygabyte z77x-ud5h) I can select the new SSD I installed on. I’m given a list including hd-linux (and something like hd-linux ‘fallback’ don’t recall exactly). When I choose hd-linux, after a time I get the log-in for one of the partitions on the other drive.

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      October 18, 2015 at 13:31

      Disk order. You have to correct disk numbers in the system or physically with the SATA cables.

      Reply
  82. ken w says:
    October 19, 2015 at 19:58

    Thanks for the response!!

    After poking around on Linux sites I kind of got that idea. I switched around some cables and I was able to boot Audiophile Linux after forcing boot in BIOS, but it won’t boot yet from the boot menu on a normal restart.

    I have a couple thumb drives on the way for backup and running Boot Repair. I’m a Linux intermediate at best. so I’ll take this slowly.

    Arch Linux looks like it will be rewarding to learn about!!

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      October 19, 2015 at 20:15

      You just have to know what disk number BIOS gave to your hard drives and then put the right numbers in two files.

      Reply
  83. ken w says:
    October 20, 2015 at 20:01

    “You just have to know what disk number BIOS gave to your hard drives and then put the right numbers in two files.”

    You mean like “/dev/sda1”, which is where APLinux apparently now resides? What two files need to be modified? I edited “fstab” and pointed it to a storage partition on an HDD. After physically moving my SSD, do I need to re-install Audiophile Linux?

    Reply
  84. ken w says:
    October 21, 2015 at 01:16

    Well, I got it to boot if I get into “boot override” on restart. I’ve been able to play back PCM audio in the players I’ve tested and video in VLC and Kodi. No DSD playback so-far, including in DeadBeef. I’m using an SMSL M8 DAC via USB. It’s a start, anyway!

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      October 21, 2015 at 07:27

      You don’t read documentation. For installing the AP-Linux on another disk you must read part “Installation instructions on disk 2.” in install documentation. And DSD is working, but you can’t use Deadbeef for that. You must read http://www.ap-linux.com/documentation/playing-audio-in-ap-linux-with-mpd/

      Reply
    • Don Lee says:
      January 11, 2016 at 21:41

      Were you able to get SMSL M8 DAC running with AP-Linux? What settings you have to set to get MPD working? I’m thinking to get this DAC but not sure if it is working…

      Reply
      • mlerota says:
        January 12, 2016 at 10:29

        I don’t have this DAC. Some of the users reported that it works. I will send you his contact.

        Reply
      • ken w says:
        January 12, 2016 at 11:59

        I got mine working, but haven’t yet figured out DSD playback. I’ll be watching.

        Reply
  85. Dev says:
    October 29, 2015 at 15:15

    I downloaded the files as instructed and created a boot for Redobackup in a USB using unetbootin. I copied the extracted (zip) file for version 3.1. Partitioned my NUC’s SSD and went to Step 1 – Select Source File. Unfortunately, got an error such as ” Cannot find source file….”. Essentially it cannot locate the zip file I am assuming.
    Please help?
    Also, is there anything I need to do for MD5 (I did not do anything as my zip files successfully downloaded and got extracted)?
    Thanks
    Dev

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      November 4, 2015 at 00:15

      Your source is not zip file. It’s one file in extracted zip file. Extract the zip file.

      Reply
  86. Pawel says:
    November 13, 2015 at 01:41

    Hi. Yesterday i tried to install ap 3.1 at new pc (mainboard witch 97 chip), and ia have problem with correct boot redo. I tried unetbotin and cd instalation, and still some errors (but it starts). When i try to backup ap image, it show me that usb can not be open, i must unplug usb drive and plug one more time and then i can choose backup image, and then i have error about too small hdd (i tried ssd 120 gb, hdd 160 and 500 gb).

    Reply
  87. Danko says:
    November 14, 2015 at 13:27

    After instalation I got this massage:

    Waiting 10 seconds for device /dev/sd1…
    ERROR: device `/dev/sd1`not found.skipping fsck
    ERROR: Unable to find root device `/dev/sd1
    You are being dropped to a recovery shell

    Please Help!

    Reply
    • lokon says:
      November 20, 2015 at 16:25

      have the same issue.

      Tried to find solution on the web, but nothing.

      Reply
    • mlerota says:
      November 23, 2015 at 11:03

      You have a typo. It’s not /dev/sd1. It’s probably /dev/sda1.

      Reply
      • Danko says:
        November 23, 2015 at 19:29

        Yes of course, but I have not found a solution?

        Reply
        • mlerota says:
          November 25, 2015 at 14:36

          Boot Redobackup cd and correct two files. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agtDiEq_Wzc From 1:53min

          Reply
  88. Danko says:
    November 25, 2015 at 17:40

    http://images.clipartpanda.com/thank-you-animated-zxigBq6cA.jpeg

    Reply
  89. bildotsa says:
    December 10, 2015 at 20:21

    Thanks for your work. Audiophile is very nice and easy.
    Eskerrik asko!!!!
    bildotsa

    Reply
  90. audite says:
    December 20, 2015 at 14:47

    Hi there,

    great work! THX a lot for this geek stuff.
    My system runs well so far on v3.1. It’s build from an i7 860 cpu, 16gb ram, ssd for system and a juli@ sound card, all stored in a fanless setting.
    I watched the cpu temp swapping around 50 degrees, cpu and ram usage around 3% – very good, I think…

    But I just mentioned a few bugs or hang ups, too
    – system hang up while performing several tools i.e easy tag or kodi
    this resolves only by killing session with power button
    – after running update “pacman -Suy” and reboot I’m missing conky!
    it won’t start on autostart or manually out of menu
    Is it a bug or did I something wrong?

    And finally I would like to know, if setting up samba will decrease quality of sound output, while running this deamon in backgroud?

    regards
    audite

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      December 21, 2015 at 13:55

      Conky will brake if you update complete system. Here is a fix http://zerg.ap-linux.com/dl/apl-conky-1.9.0-7-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
      Download this file and do # pacman -U apl-conky-1.9.0-7-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz. For samba, you will have to check by yourself. I prefer NFS.

      Reply
      • audite says:
        December 30, 2015 at 21:03

        Thanks for your reply. I solved it with a new install.
        Meanwhile I changed the cpu from i7 860 with extern grafics into i5 660 with the integrated ironlake gpu. So i got enough space put in a ESI Juli@ pci.

        Now I got strange issues after booting the system.
        Fluxbox doesn’t start correctly and ends up in a frozen curser that disappears after few seconds.
        But mpd is running and I can play music via Remote.

        How can I get back the desktop?
        There is ssh running, but I can’t login.

        Regards
        audite

        Reply
  91. Piotr says:
    January 1, 2016 at 16:31

    Hi Marko!
    Thanks for an excellent solution for playing bit perfect audio!
    I have found some problems and I want to share solutions for them:
    1) Nginx web server doesn’t present correctly UTF-8 characters.
    – In file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf in section server just below line “#charset koi8-r;” add “charset UTF-8;”
    2) Conky doesn’t present correctly UTF-8 characters.
    – In file /config/.conkyrc add in first line “override_utf8_locale yes”
    If in your language (like in my case) you have white squares instead of come letters change (in same mentioned file):
    – “xftfont Terminus:size=14” to “xftfont Terminus (TTF):size=15”

    Font is slightly different, but still OK.
    3) Conky presents only hardwired ethernet address, not WiFi:
    – In file /config/.conkyrc add just below line “${color #ffcb48}IP ADDRESS: ${color #e5e5e5) ${alignr}${addr eth0}” another line “${color #ffcb48}IP ADDRESS: ${color #e5e5e5) ${alignr}${addr wlan0}”

    Reply
    • Piotr says:
      January 1, 2016 at 21:59

      One more ammendment – in order to detour bug in Cantata not showing covers from directories containing UTF-8 characters in named one should add:
      – echo LANG=en_US.UTF-8 >> /etc/locale.conf

      Reply
      • mlerota says:
        January 4, 2016 at 10:17

        Thanks very much Piotr.

        Reply
  92. audite says:
    January 4, 2016 at 13:46

    Hello,
    please help. I’m no linux hero and need your advice.

    I posted this request a few days before:
    “…changed the cpu from i7 860 with extern grafics into i5 660 with the integrated ironlake gpu. So i got enough space to put in a ESI Juli@ pci.

    Now I got strange issues after booting the system.
    Fluxbox doesn’t start correctly and ends up in a frozen curser that disappears after few seconds.
    But mpd is running and I can play music via Remote.”

    I will try to give some more detailed info.

    At first, I ran a lynnfield i7-860 with pcie vga, but without the juli@, because my case has only one card slot. No chance to put in the juli@, too. So I played music via onboard HD audio and toslink connected to V-90 DAC. But I wanted to get the Juli@ running.
    My pcb provides a LGA1156 socket. To get my pci audio card in use, I changed the cpu into one with interated grafics, the i5-660 with igpu and put in the juli@.

    After switching the cpu, I got no grafic Desktop.

    My first step was a new blank install of AP-Linux, according to the install intructions, but it didn’t solve the problem.

    So I explored the arch wiki and being happy now, getting a console, when booting in runlevel 3. The intel video driver is listet as already installed and the viaEnvy24 is shown in lspci.
    After a regular auto boot up to runlevel 5, the session start ends up into a static underline (curser prompt) top left on blank screen, which disappears after a few seconds and switches of the vga signal. I got no grafic output at all (only shutdown messages are shown, when using power button and refresh monitor before).
    MPD is started an reacheable via remote app, but music can only be played usb.

    For testing, I tried an old Ubuntu 12.04 LTS from seperate HD and it’s running without any probs. I got Desktop, the juli@ audiocard (viaEnvy24) is detected correlty and plays music via digital output, also via usb and onboard audio via toslink.

    Are there any ideas how to get back to the AP Desktop and it’s features?

    I’m willing to make a rewarding donation, if I get my system running well.

    many thx and regards
    audite

    Reply
  93. Anonym says:
    January 6, 2016 at 23:03

    Hello all,
    I’ve reached the stage where you select the drive when you restore, and have selected ‘connected directly to my computer’. The problem is that it is f*cking greyed out every single time I try to fix it (unmounting and mounting usb drive, extracting files from zip etc.) So the simple thing is, I can’t select anything.

    Any help would be appreciated,

    cheers, Anonym

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      January 7, 2016 at 10:25

      Hm, it looks like your USB have some permission problems. Format it again with NTFS or ext4.
      You can do it with Redobackup. Just go to “Disk tools” and “Disk utility”, select your USB,
      erase everything, create new partition and format it. Then on that partition create directory
      “Aplinux” and unzip files there and try again. Tell us if you made it. Cheers.

      Reply
      • Anonym says:
        January 7, 2016 at 18:51

        Thankyou, for the quick reply
        It worked! turns out the usb I was using was formatted as FAT 32-bit.

        Cheers, Anonym

        Reply
  94. Giulio says:
    January 12, 2016 at 15:08

    Hi everybody,
    after rebooting from Redo Backup I’ve got this problem:

    :: performing fsck on ‘/dev/sda1’
    fsck: fsck.vfat: not found
    fsck: error 2 while executing fsck.vfat for /dev/sda1
    ERROR: fsck failed on ‘/dev/sda1’
    /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    WARNING
    The root device is not configured to be mounted read-write! It may be fsck’d again later.
    /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    :: mounting ‘/dev/sda1’ on real root
    mount: unknown filesystem type ‘vfat’
    You are now being dropped into an emergency shell.
    sh: can’t access tty; job control turned off
    [rootfs /]#

    what can I do?
    Thanks,
    Giulio

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      January 12, 2016 at 15:52

      You did something wrong. You installed AP-Linux on windows FAT filesystem somehow.
      Wipe the disk before installing and make sure that there is no partitions before
      install.

      Reply
      • Giulio says:
        January 12, 2016 at 16:56

        Thanks for your rapidity,
        I’ve followed the instructions step-by-step, the filesystem is not FAT, I can’t understand where the problem is…, the disk was wiped before installing and there were no partitions…

        Reply
        • mlerota says:
          January 12, 2016 at 17:06

          Do you have any other disks connected to the same PC? It shouldn’t be “mount: unknown filesystem type ‘vfat’”
          Did you edited /etc/fstab file. There is the problem. No vfat should be anywhere. It’s from windows.

          Reply
          • Giulio says:
            January 13, 2016 at 12:03

            you were right, I leaved the windows hd connected to the motherboard, however it continues not working, so I tried booting in fallback mode with this last configuration, now it’s ok.

            what is the difference between the standard mode and the fallback?

            thank you very much, have everybody a good sound!

          • mlerota says:
            January 13, 2016 at 13:17

            Search fallback on this page. It’s already been answered.
            Cheers

  95. pilote88 says:
    January 18, 2016 at 19:47

    Hello!
    Thank’s for sharing your work and saving us all the amounts of time needed to properly setup and configure an Arch system!
    I have been through the install process successfully and the system seems to work nicely with my hardware
    Only, the fonts are so small within the graphical interface that nothing is readable (changing blindly settings in the theme configuration doesn’t solve anything).
    Furthermore, conky is all squeezed on the top right corner with all the characters mixed together making it unreadable too.
    I tried changing the character size in the Appearance menu but it changed almost nothing (except in the menu itself as it supposed to, I guess…)
    What method is used in your config to control the font size used by fluxbox? Is it in xorg.conf?
    By the way the resolution of my screen (which is a TV actually) seems to be correctly detected so I don’t think the problem comes from there.
    Thank’s!

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      January 19, 2016 at 11:41

      The fonts are tiny because of your graphic card. The card is new and it’s not yet supported in AP-Linux.
      You can try to find some cheap older graphic card and replace it or wait for the new AP-Linux to
      arrive.

      Reply
  96. phg says:
    January 30, 2016 at 15:31

    Hi,
    if someone want to have an other OS with AP-Linux try Linux Mint.
    Boot the Mint DVD, go to Gparted and shrink the Data Partition(the last one) to have 20GB or more space left. Install Linux Mint (I used 17.3 Cinnamon) with the doing something else option. Select the 20GB at the end and format it as primary ext4,
    set the mount point to / and let it run without creating a swap partition. Ok, do it on your risk, with little ram maybe you need a swap and if Mint does not install the boot loader correct you will have big problems – so clone your disc before doing it! Mint is really nice, you can do the most things you can do with Win or Mac OS and it’s something like a perfect combination with AP-Linux.
    Does someone know how to change the boot order? AP-Linux should be first to use it without monitor, keyboard.
    How can I make a executable script on AP-Linux to get wlan running without typing every time su……..etc?
    Many, many thanx to mlerota – there are some other good solutions, I like Daphile, Audirvana, Foobar but AP-linux beats them all!

    Reply
  97. Thomas Engelhardt says:
    February 15, 2016 at 08:58

    How can I install a http-Server in AP-Linux ?

    What kind of http-server do you suggest ?

    What do I have to type in X-Terminal for installing it in AP-Linux ?

    I need it for using it with MPD and MPad, so that MPad can show the CD cover while playing a track.

    With a http-server MPad can download and show the cover JPGs from SSD disk. This works with MPD and MPad very good, using Ubuntu and lighttpd.

    Best Regards
    Thomas Engelhardt

    Reply
    • audite says:
      April 20, 2016 at 09:38

      mpd is just running an http-server!
      in mpad go to connection settings, local cover art, URL. type http://your_IP
      for eg. http://192.168.178.2
      cover filename has to be set for all covers in your music folders eg. folder.jpg or cover.jpg, so you have to rename all of your cover-pics. you should also re-tag your music-files with the new cover.
      note, mpad didn’t display png files!!

      if you have an android tablet, try using “mpd control” or another application listed here http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Clients

      best
      audite

      Reply
  98. ikso says:
    February 20, 2016 at 14:41

    Thank you for good OS.
    Now I’m trying to install AP-Linux in new machine: Intel NUC5C (Celeron N3050: Braswell).
    Installation is successful, but AP-Linux can’t boot propery. Through Arch Linux’s CUI is working well, X seem to have something wrong. /var/log/Xorg.0.log tells

    “ILLEGAL ETXENDED X86 OPCODE!”
    “Fatal sever error: (EE)AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0 ”
    “(EE)Server terminated with error (1)”

    When I command “startx”, same errors appear. I guess latest Intel HD Graphics doesn’t work well with AP-Linux.
    I also tried cheking BIOS setting and using kernel options below;

    i915.preliminary_hw_support=1
    noapic
    edd=off

    However, it’s not working well. Please tell me some idea to fix it if you have it.
    Regards,

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      February 22, 2016 at 11:02

      Intel NUCs are not supported by AP-Linux. You can’t do anything. They will be in the next version.

      Reply
  99. phg says:
    March 2, 2016 at 16:20

    I have a problem with Cantata and/or MPD.
    I have a Classical Collection on an UBS HD, I linked it in Storage/Music, mount it with the file-manager and see it in the folder view of Cantata. But only 38 entries! It’s 97GB with 256 kbit/s compressed (damned!) files, with Deadbeef it seems I get access to all. With Linux Mint on same HD with installed MPD and Cantata there are 397 entries(folders).
    Any advice? There had been some problems with file naming when I imported the files with foobar from an iPod. But the Deadbeef, Filemanger and Cantata/MPD on Linux Mint (almost the same mpd.config)should have same problems.

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      March 3, 2016 at 11:45

      Maybe when you added the files with your operating system, you added some restrictions on files. Change permissions
      with “chmod” command like “chmod -R 755 /path/to/your/disk/files-directory”. You must be superuser (root) to do it.
      Become root with “su” in command line. Password is “muser”.

      Reply
      • phg says:
        March 5, 2016 at 21:58

        The problem seems to be that .m4a files are not recognized – only .mp3
        I think, that i read about that in the documentaion, but I do not find it.
        Normaly I don’t use mp3 or m4a – but they had been on my old iPod and meanwhile I use an old Nero aac decoder for recordings that are not worth to be saved uncompressed. This decoder can be set to 500 kbits VBR and that’s perfect for those recordings.
        Any advice, install instructions?
        Thanks a lot!

        Reply
        • phg says:
          March 8, 2016 at 18:58

          It’s a problem with MPD 18.16 in AP-Linux 3.1.
          Seems to be that there is an error in the faad decoder that should support .m4a files.
          I updated the whole system and….Kodi works! But same behavior with .m4a files and MPD. I tried twice to update MPD the way described in the forum and was lucky to had cloned the HD!
          Ok, I will use Deadbeef for the Classical Collection and try to get a better folder structure to it.
          Maybe there comes a V3.2?

          Reply
          • mlerota says:
            March 9, 2016 at 10:25

            It will come in the future…

  100. Darshan says:
    March 7, 2016 at 18:17

    I want to install ap Linux as dual boot. Don’t want to loose my Windows 7 which does the HTPC job for movies.
    Please suggest

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      March 9, 2016 at 10:25

      Learn how to do it or get another disk.

      Reply
  101. jim geng says:
    April 18, 2016 at 15:45

    How to mount synology NAS Music Fold to MPD? I just can not make it work, please help. Thank you.

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      April 18, 2016 at 16:02

      Configure Synology as NFS server and try something like this:
      1. $ mkdir /storage/Music/synology
      2. unlock system and edit /etc/fstab file as:

      192.168.x.x:/volume1/music /storage/Music/synology nfs nfsvers=3,users,rw,nofail 0 0

      Replace IP address (192.168.x.x) with your Synology IP address and /volume1/music with your setup.
      Try to mount it from command line before reboot with:

      # mount /storage/Music/synology

      Reply
      • jim geng says:
        April 19, 2016 at 13:27

        Thank you very much mlerota. I did everything as you said, I can mount the NAS in command line. Reboot PC, In file Manager storage-music-synology, it’s empty no files. why? Thanks for your help again

        Reply
      • jim geng says:
        April 20, 2016 at 04:36

        Hi,
        I use # mount -a mounted NAS on the PC, I can see all files from my NAS in File Manager under /Music/synology. but in Cantata I cannt any files from my NAS, under Folds tab there is no “synology” fold. If I update Database on Cantata , Cantata will stop working ” cannt conect localhost:6600″ What should I do?

        Reply
        • mlerota says:
          April 20, 2016 at 09:06

          What are folder permissions? Try to do
          1. $ su
          2. # chown -R muser:muser /Music/synology

          Reply
          • jim geng says:
            April 20, 2016 at 16:19

            I installed ap-linux3.1. add everything as you said, now I try to # mount /storage/Music/synology come up this error:
            Job for rpc-statd.service failed. See “systemctl status rpc-statd.services” -xe” for details.
            mount.nfs: rcp.statd is not running but is required for remote locking.
            mount.nfs: Either use ‘-o nolock’ to keep local, or start statd.
            mount.nfs: an incorrect mount option was specified

            what should I do?

            Also how to install VNC on it? I try # pacman -S x11vnc ends up with server error.

            I’am new to Linux , need help, many thanks.

          • mlerota says:
            April 20, 2016 at 16:33

            Try:
            1. [~]# mount -o remount,rw /
            2.
            [~]# systemctl enable rpc-statd.services
            3.
            [~]# systemctl start rpc-statd.services
            4.
            [~]# mount /storage/Music/synology

            If it works, after reboot you will not have to go through these steps

            Can’t help you with x11vnc

          • jim geng says:
            April 21, 2016 at 07:48

            hi, after first line :[~]# systemctl enable rpc-statd.services
            it come up with this: Failed to execute operation: No such file or directory

            Thanks

          • jim geng says:
            April 21, 2016 at 13:48

            ok, I use # systemctl enable rpcbind
            so I can mount my NAS to it.
            But same as 3.0 I can use DeadBeef play my NAS files, on Cantat Refreash Database it come up with: Failed to send command to “Default” (Locahost:6600) – not connected

            what should I do? Thanks

        • phg says:
          April 21, 2016 at 17:05

          Did you make:

          [~]# mkdir /storage/Music
          [~]# chown -R muser:muser /storage

          or try to mount the NAS somewhere else but not in the Music folder and then create a link in the Music folder that points to the mountpoint of the NAS.
          Arch Linux is crazy for LinuxNoKnowers like me and you, but AP- Linux is the best.

          Reply
          • phg says:
            April 23, 2016 at 12:38

            to Jim Geng
            try: If your NAS supports smb make a executable file

            #!/bin/bash
            gvfs-mount smb://phg-g31m-s2l/Desktop </.smbcreds
            (replace phg-g31m-s2l/Desktop with your needs)

            How to:
            Terminal as root (su…muser……)
            cd / (or cd /bin)
            mount -o remount, rw /
            gedit (ignore all error messages and make a file as above, save and exit gedit)
            thunar (this is the filemanager, search the file, right click and set permissions executable and close thunar)
            chown muser:muser filename
            If you need password for your NAS make a file ".smbcreds" as descripted above, 1st row is user, 2nd workgroup, 3rd password
            chown muser:muser .smbcreds
            chmod 0600 /.smbcreds

            if you execute the #!/bin/bash file you will find your NAS at /run/user/1000/gvfs – make a link in Music to this point.
            If you need automount…….I don't know how to, maybe with fluxbox.
            Good luck!

  102. audite says:
    April 18, 2016 at 17:00

    Hi,
    I want to give a genral hint about intel igpu of 2nd generation.
    They don’t run with the rt-kernel of ap-linux!
    Specifically I tested the i5-660 and the i3-540, both with Ironlake (Intel HD-grafics) igpu. The standard kernel is running, but with decrease of sound quality.
    I also tested a Sapphire Radeon HD6450 pcie video card, which brought electronic spiff out to the speakers. No way! The noises were sourced by each change of video signal, even in runlevel 3 (server mode)

    Maybe somebody got experience with igpu from 3rd and 4th gen?!

    The 5th gen of intel igpu (lga1150) is running well, with noiseless video output. The igpu from 2nd gen are also noiseless.

    best
    audite

    Reply
  103. Paulette says:
    April 20, 2016 at 14:23

    Dear Steve,

    wouldn’t it be easier to make an .iso file ?
    Thanks !

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      April 20, 2016 at 14:32

      If I don’t work daily job from 9 to 5 and I have two more developers 🙂

      Reply
  104. rete says:
    April 24, 2016 at 12:22

    @audite

    on P7P55D no such “problems”, linux does not have best support for all different mobo chipsets, so could be mobo, not cpu issue

    if you would like to get the best of AP Linux, do not use mobo audio out in case you’re using it

    @mlerota

    any clue how to activate audio device on V3.0, 3.1 in “mute state” when MPD is not playing music, there are DAC’s which does not have auto mute …

    Hope you’ll find time window soon to update MPD on 3.1 and solve those few issues you know about well, still have little rakia left 🙂

    Reply
  105. calvin says:
    April 29, 2016 at 22:52

    Thanks Marko for the effort.

    I have a problem that has been bugging me for quite some time. The ntpd daemon is a bit of pain.

    Anyhow I finally got the right time on my machine, which will boot into Windows from time to time. But ntp has failed to sync time out of the box. ntpq -p always says “No association ID”. So I changed /etc/ntp.conf for the “server ” lines to use IPs directly. It then worked. However I can nslookup pool.ntp.org on xterm. Does anyone know why ntpd can’t resolve server name? In the meantime I will have to stick with IPs in my ntp.conf.

    Thanks

    Reply
  106. Cosimo says:
    July 18, 2016 at 08:30

    Hi, can I update AP-linux with
    #pacman -Syu
    ?

    Reply
    • Graham says:
      July 27, 2016 at 12:25

      $ su
      password:
      # mount -o remount, rw /
      # pacman -Syu

      Reply
  107. Ray Ton says:
    July 18, 2016 at 16:42

    Have anyone tried to run ap-linux on flash drive? The flash drive did show in the Redo Backup and can be installed and changed the fstab and config. However, when tried to boot up the flash drive, Tried blkid, it doesn’t see sdb1 except sda1 only. Wonder if this only work with HD only. Thanks

    Reply
    • Ray Ton says:
      July 19, 2016 at 05:03

      Didn’t realize the Dell i3 and HP i7 laptops didn’t work with USB. I will check the BIOS later to see how to make it boot. It did boot up the USB but the kernal didn’t see sdb1. The config below works on any desktop.

      blkid: use this to find uuid, then apply to syslinux.cfg and fstab

      syslinux:

      APPEND root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/7a336d8b-348a-4402-83ed-b7a661216072 ro

      fstab:

      UUID=7a336d8b-348a-4402-83ed-b7a661216072 / ext4 noatime,discard,defaults,ro 0 1
      UUID=4fab9e11-6faf-42c6-8782-f43100b05528 /config ext4 noatime,discard,nofail,rw 0 2
      UUID=1b7d0090-f9cb-45e3-9177-f4a86b800bff /storage ext4 auto,rw 0 2

      Reply
      • Ray Ton says:
        July 21, 2016 at 17:45

        Updated: one of the USB on the laptop will work. My HP i7 got 3 USB ports. Tried each of them, and only 1 is working. Sweet…got it’s running. There is nothing to change in BIOS.

        Reply
  108. Graham says:
    July 23, 2016 at 17:43

    I’m trying to work out how to install AP-Linux on a USB stick on my HP Mini running Ubuntu, which has no CD drive. The install instructions specify that I must have an optical drive. I looked at http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-ubuntu which explains how to create a bootable USB stick using ubuntu, but it needs an ISO image of the OS to be installed, and there isn’t one available for AP-linux. I’m sure there has to a be a simple solution here, but as my Ubuntu knowledge is limited I’m stuck. Cn anyone point me in th right direction?

    Reply
    • JGarcia says:
      January 26, 2017 at 05:09

      You probably solved this ages ago. But for the sake of others who might have this question and are reading this, I just installed AP-Linux that way. (yeah first time user and already cant wait for next distro). So you need two usb drives, one for the ISO and one for the extracted zip file. If you are already in linux just install unetbootin. For ubuntu do ” sudo apt-get install unetbootin ” For ” fedora sudo yum install unetbootin ” Then ” sudo unetbootin ” choose the ISO option and look for the ISO you just downloaded (it is probably in /home/your_user/Downloads ) and create the bootable USB.

      Truly hope next version has an easier installer specially for dual-booting.

      Reply
  109. rhalder says:
    September 16, 2016 at 18:11

    I installed AP Linux. But, after system boots I see my display is broken. I could properly see Syslinux menus. I believe this is occurring because of proper graphics driver missing. I’m using ATI R7 240 GPU. I’ve uploaded the image. This is the link http://imgur.com/a/tOny9

    Reply
    • Graham says:
      September 19, 2016 at 10:17

      https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI ?

      Reply
  110. Justin says:
    October 27, 2016 at 13:26

    The MD5 for V3.0 had error 404, and I have yet to find an MD5.txt for the new V3.1. Could you please update, thanks.

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      October 27, 2016 at 13:39

      http://dl.ap-linux.com/Releases/apl-v3.1.txt

      Reply
      • Justin says:
        October 28, 2016 at 02:18

        Thanks 🙂

        Reply
  111. ab90 says:
    January 6, 2017 at 11:49

    Hey there, just installed ApLinux.
    After boot and some fail msg regarding Kill.server the Screen gets black.
    HpProBook 6550b i5 6GB Ram.

    Reply
  112. Jonath B says:
    January 9, 2017 at 14:00

    Hi does your distrib run on something like this ?

    https://www.amazon.fr/Beelink-Z83-II-Windows-x5-Z8350-Streaming/dp/B01M1JJ7BC/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1483969511&sr=8-7&keywords=linux+box

    I plan to use an external dac.

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      January 18, 2017 at 18:49

      I don’t know. You have to try.

      Reply
  113. JGarcia says:
    January 26, 2017 at 05:14

    I see you are doing the install on VirtualBox. I assume it is for demonstration purposes. Or does it run well enough on VirtualBox to forget about dual booting ?

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      January 26, 2017 at 10:29

      It’s just for demonstration. It runs really bad on Virtualbox. Forget about running AP-Linux on any virtual machine.

      Reply
  114. Luis says:
    March 30, 2017 at 11:40

    Hi

    Can I control AP-LINUX remotely, since when uploading new music to the hard disk I would like to do it from my MAC and not have to be connecting the monitor every time I want to do this?
    If this service does not come pre installed what would be the arch-linux tool to do this?

    Best Regard

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      March 30, 2017 at 12:19

      Yes. You can use SSH. And any MPD client for playing music.

      Reply
  115. bordetti says:
    April 5, 2017 at 19:39

    Hello,
    I installed ssh, it’s impossible to me to connect to my AP-Linux. The message is “access denied”. I don’t understand ! I all tried !
    Please help !

    Thanks a lot and bravo (I used Vortexvox with CCRMA. AP-Linux sounds better)

    Reply
  116. Michael Patterson says:
    April 7, 2017 at 16:47

    New to Arch Linux. Some experience loading and troubleshooting telephony based Red Hat. Problem arose after loading new distro of AP-Linux getting my TP-Link N900 wireless pci card to be work. I bought the card without researching it thoroughly. I think I need to have
    Atheros ath9k to make it work, but (lspci -k) shows it is. This is the output when following the wireless install commands.
    # mount -o remount.rw /
    # wpa_passphrased NETGEAR-5G password >> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
    # wpa_supplicant -B -D wext -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
    ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
    ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument

    # lspci -vnn | grep Wireless
    01:00.0 Network controller [0200]: Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx Wireless Network Adaptoer [168c:0030] (rev 01)

    # lspci -k
    01:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
    Subsystem \: Qualcomm Atheros Device 3112
    Kernel dirver in use: ath9k
    Kernel modules: ath9k

    # rfkill list
    0: phy0: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no

    Can someone give me a hand on what path I should take to resolve this issue. Barring that, is there an PCI or USB wireless card out there that has proven to be PnP with Arch Linux? Preferably one that supports USB 3.0 and 802.11 ac.

    Thanks,
    Michael

    Reply
  117. Sasha says:
    April 21, 2017 at 15:34

    Can I get instructions on how to remotely connect to the AP Linux desktop? For remote management I want to use PC with Windows 7.

    Reply
  118. Bond says:
    April 25, 2017 at 12:11

    Could the author write an instruction on how to install a TeamViewer for this version of Linux.

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      April 25, 2017 at 18:29

      TeamViewer as far as I know doesn’t have support for Linux. And internet is full of documents how to
      access remotely on Linux.

      Reply
  119. vaupue says:
    May 7, 2017 at 20:18

    Hi,
    I updated firefox via pacman -S firefox.
    Now it won’t start via fluxbox link, via terminal I got these message:

    XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so:
    libicui18n.so.59: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
    Couldn’t load XPCOM.

    What can I do to lauch firefox again?

    Regards
    Volker

    Reply
    • mlerota says:
      May 10, 2017 at 09:12

      Can you do first “pacman -Suy”

      Reply
  120. vaupue says:
    August 18, 2017 at 18:06

    Doesn’t work.
    Firefox breaks anyway. Same error I already reported.

    Any idea?

    Volker

    Reply

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