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Playing audio in AP-Linux with Deadbeef player
April 19, 2014
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. We don’t know if this document is good or need some improvements, so leave a comment. If you had successful install, send us a mail also. Thanks.
Requirements:
1. Entire hard disk. If you want some other OS next to AP-Linux, you can install it on the same disk, but after AP-Linux installation.
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
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After successful boot this screen will appear. Choose “Restore”.
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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.
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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.
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Click next
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Select destination drive. In our example, we will install AP-Linux on Drive 1 (/dev/sda). If your destination drive is not “Drive 1″, scroll down to video installation on Drive 2. 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.
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Confirm:
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And the installation will begin
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Wait until is finished, and if you have installed AP-Linux on disk 1 (/dev/sda), that’s it. 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>[~]# mount -o remount,rw / <server1>[~]# chown -R muser:muser /storage <server1>[~]# ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Zagreb /etc/localtime <server1>[~]# reboot
Replace zoneinfo/Europe/Zagreb with your city.
If you prefer video installation, here it is:
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:
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.
After installation you will have two partitions. These two partitions are using about 23GB of disk. The rest is free. You can create 3rd partition to populate the space. “Type ‘fdisk /dev/sda’. Again replace the sda if you installed on sdb or sdc. Type: ‘n’,’p’,’3′ and the rest is default. ‘n’ stands for “new partition”, ‘p’ for “primary”, ‘3’ for 3rd. After “command (m for help): you can type ‘p’ to see the list again. When you are satisfied, type ‘w’ to save the changes. You can always quit with ‘q’ and try again.”
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“Now we need to create file system on that partition. Type: ‘mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3’ (replace sda3 with your disk number). This will create file system on 3rd partition of the first disk.“”
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Next, playing audio in AP-Linux v3 with Deadbeef player.
Post installation:
1. Wireless config
Open terminal and become root.
$ su Password: # mount -o remount,rw / # pacman -Sy # pacman -S wpa_supplicant # 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’.
207 Comments
What’s new with this version? What is changed that it doesn’t need Jack for SQ? Can you install Windows after AP-Linux?
There’s been a lot of changes. It will be documented. You can install Windows after Linux on the same drive.
the installation much more complicated than previous version. could you simplified the installation? this one is like installing archlinux
I’m sorry. There’s just no other way to do it or simplify it. But once you get familiar with disks naming it will be easier. You only need to edit one or two files and that’s it. Don’t be afraid of that dark terminals.
Tell us the size of the files. Slow download – no way to know how much longer the download is.
1.2GB and about 350MB. I have tested the download from Germany and the speed is good. From where are you downloading?
Indianapolis, Indiana USA
Hm, we will have to find a sponsor for hosting. If you know someone in the USA that is willing host AP-Linux images, it would be good…
I am sorry but these installation instructions make no sense. When I did the restore it ran for only a few seconds and did not seem like it installed anything from the usb device and the section where you have to type up the entire text in the nano editor make no sense. You need a much simpler installation process.
The restore process takes few minutes. If it’s few seconds, then something is wrong. The restore files have 1200MB. It must take longer.
We have simplified installation documentation and added two videos how to do it.
Zip not work. I have downloaded file aplv3-b1 three times with firefox, but this is the md5: 89040c1871849394547e52014da8c127
Why?
Best Regards
Try with some other downloader.
I was able to install etc, but on the reboot I get failed to execute login command.. the I get an archlinux login prompt (graphical) which when I try and login with a muser/muser it again fails… this is very disappointing as I have destroyed my previous working ap-linux installation. I can control/alt f1 and login but if I try startx it fails as well.. I am gonna try it all over again .. i
ok did complete reinstall and I can boot to desktop, I cannot set localtime – says file exists, and gmpc wants a password on “localhost” and muser doesnt work. Also I have no internet connection, nor an application that will allow me to set wireless settings. If I need to set up arch by command line this is gonna be very tough, even with my background in linux ( a few years ago for me..)
final for the night… still havent found wireless or any applications.. mpd deadbeef open fine,no music on computer yet.. but I think I can learn about arch and make this work.. I will check back in a day or two.. looks like it will be high performance with arch linux.. something I tried once many years ago and switched to debian where I stayed 🙂
anyway thanks for all your hard work and providing this for all of us. Sorry for my initial response.. I thought i was in for an “install hell” but it worked just as you layed out.. on the second attempt 🙂
At the end of install instructions, there’s been added wireless howto.
Wireless config is actually pretty simple. I will update you on this later, and default gmpc password is 1234. Thanks for the feedback.
I have the same problem with setting local time. Says file exists. How did you get around this? Also, I want to change my hostname from server1 to something else. It says /etc/hostname is read-only. Is the installation locked down in some way? Should it be a normal, fully functioning linux installation so other programs etc can be installed? I am a linux newbie, so I might be doing it wrong. I also want to assign a fixed IP address. Where/how do I do that? And then I want to install teamviewer. I downloaed the .deb file but don’t know what to do next. Is it a “multiarch” installation? (I dont really understand what that is)
Marko hello. I installed a new version of V3.0. System does not see external usb disc, though in previous version all was OK.
System sometimes (about 1 time from 10 attempts) sees normal 4gb usb disc, and even more rare it can see external usb disc 750gb.
I tried to do point 4 from FAQ ( How can I mount external disk in terminal?), but with no success.
Please help.
Thank you
Try this: open terminal, become root (“su” enter) and type this command: ‘modprobe usb-storage’. Then try to add your USB disks.
I tried to do all you said, but again it does not work. But there is also an advantage in V3.0: DAC NAD M51 (with software upgrade V1.43) is working without installing of another core, as you adviced me in the previous version. But anyway, please help me to mount USB disc.
Thank you.
Sorry, we have been using many external USB disks today and every one of them worked. Don’t know what’s the problem with yours.
Can NAD M51 work with software V1.39?
Don’t know…
Hello, I don’t have any external DVD, nor a 64BIT CPU. May I install It with these restrictions?
No, you have to have 64bit cpu.
hello
i create the 3rd partition on hard disk (sda3), i can see it with thunar file manager but i cant make a dir and copy audio files on it .Please tell me how can i do that ( i want to copy audio files on this patition but the commands ”new folder ” , ” paste” canot be used ). thank you for your answer
What’s the error? Did you make a file system on that partition with ‘mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3’ ? Maybe you don’t have permission to write to that partition as user “muser”. Do this in terminal:
su
mount -o remount,rw /
mkdir /storage
mount /dev/sda3 /storage
chown -R muser:muser /storage
Then try to create directory on /storage
Then add something like this in /etc/fstab. Open terminal and:
su
mount -o remount,rw /
gedit /etc/fstab
Then add this
/dev/sda3 /storage ext4 noatime,discard,rw 0 2
Then every time you boot, your /dev/sda3 partition will be mounted on /storage directory automatically.
yes , i make file sistem on the partition ,i can acces it with thunar but when i tryed to copy music files from dvd to this patition the command ” paste ” in the sda3 in not available ( i do the task with copy/paste )
thank you for your anser , i will try when i get home
one more pls : how can i add this folder with music from sda3 to MDP database and play it with GMPC player ?
thank you
Look at the last comment. Make some directory, for example “mkdir /storage” add option to /etc/fstab to mount it automatically, and then add “/storage” path to music_directory of mpd.conf file.
Hello,
my question is for sure the most stupid on the topic, but where is it the modified Redobackup CD image? i can’t find it in the download section! Can y use a standard redobackup live disk?
Thank you!
Link is now corrected and you can find it in Download page. You can use standard Redobackup for older hardware. For new you will need our modified Redobackup.
Thank you mlerota,
i downloaded the correct Redobackup, but i get the same problems i had with the standard disk: after installation the “storage” directory and the new (3rd) partition are read only, no way to work on it, a lock icon is on the storage directory. Other problem, the system will not recognize any usb storage pen…
I will tray some more times before to give up..
I solved the locked “storage” problem using your suggested steps and deleting and remaking with rmdir and then mkdir:
mount -o remount,rw /
rmdir /storage
mkdir /storage
mount /dev/sda3 /storage
chown -R muser:muser /storage
The lock icon disappear and the directory work now properly,
but i still have the problem with usb and new partition
All working now!
just need to edit /etc/fstab as stated in your previous answer, but i needed to change sdb1 to sda3, sdb1 was an usb drive, so the change will solve both problems at same time.
Thank you for your good job!
how did you get it to read the usb pen drives mario? I have unlocked sda3 but still doesnt recognize usb stick to transfer music
I’ve found my Acer miniPc manage 64bit code and I managed to install without CD-ROM 🙂
problems now:
– no disk manager
– no file manager
– no wifi
– no banshee (which I’ve loved from last version, but I destroyed the previous system upgrading banshee)
– don’t know how to setup my DAC
– don’t know how to fill the disk with FLACS
The only thing I’ve noticed is the fact this SO is much lighter than previous, pratically has nothing ( LOL ) but at least doesn’t eat up resources.
What can I do now? :p
1. no disk manager
– fdisk,sfdisk choose
2. no file manager
– menu -> Thunar file manager
3. no wifi
$ su
Password:
# mount -o remount,rw /
# pacman -Sy
# pacman -S networkmanager
Then look at the end of the install documentation
4. no banshee
Don’t close the terminal and:
# pacman -S banshee
5. don’t know how to setup my DAC
You don’t need to
http://www.ap-linux.com/documentation/playing-audio-in-ap-linux-with-deadbeef-player/
6. don’t know how to fill the disk with FLACS
First create partition with fdisk, then mount it, and then transfer it with Thunar file manager,
SSH or SCP (systemctl start sshd.service), or external disk. This info is also at the end of the install docs.
7. What can I do now? :p
Try a little harder and you’ll rewarded with the sound better than any PC, CD-player or Turntable 🙂
Yes it’s a little too much for anyone coming from Windows world, and yes docs are far from perfect. But it pays in the end. The things that you get harder, are better at the end… Sometimes :-).
Thank you. I will apply more, but consider that I’ve setup the old version very well:
– autologon
– automount
– banshee
– audio only from DAC (eradicated audio card)
– wireless
– cpu/ram info
and now the whole system has changed TOTALLY 😀 That’s crazy! 🙂
Anyway I can see It’s really responsive not laggish as Win machine. Audio HAVE to be realtime, else there is not sense playing it.
Yes the system changed totally. But I could not resist :-). It’s way better than Mint/Ubuntu from last versions. I decided: better sound over ease of installation. I think in time this will come out better. Especially when better docs arrive. And one more thing, wireless network is not nice to sound. That’s why wireless is not in priority list :-).
Yep, but I just use the wifi to “download” the material on the “hifi”, obviously It’s not involved in playing 🙂
1 Cannot deal with text partition manager LOL
2 ok
3 I give dhcpcd wlan0 and the light of wifi turn orange (not blue as it should be) no ip address. I followed all the instructions
4 ok
5 not yet there
6 later
mlerota
April 30, 2014 at 09:17
Then add something like this in /etc/fstab. Open terminal and:
su
mount -o remount,rw /
gedit /etc/fstab
Then add this
/dev/sda3 /storage ext4 noatime,discard,rw 0 2
Then every time you boot, your /dev/sda3 partition will be mounted on /storage directory automatically.
hello ,
i canot save the file /etc/fstab with the new line in it. The fstab its read only file and dont let me save it modified . how can i do that ? thank you for your help
Yes you can. Just follow the exact rules.
Hello !
I type:
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime
and then :
ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/etc/localtime’ : File exists
Please help !
Thank You for this very good musicmaschine.
Andre
If exists then ‘su’
‘rm /etc/localtime’. Currently it’s set to Zagreb localtime. 🙂
why did you choose arch linux as base and fluxbox for this new version ?. thanks to you I know the deadbeef player, I have yet to find one that sounds better than deadbeef, audiophile quality awesome
Because Arch works perfect and works like I want it to work. Mint/Ubuntu variants does not. There is something messed up in their ALSA implementation related to bit-perfect audio. I didn’t have time to investigate the problems so I switched to Arch. Fluxbox was always default option in all AP-Linux versions. Fluxbox is just fast, awesome and simple to configure.
Just out of curiosity, how did you determine that Mint/Ubuntu have problems with their ALSA implementation (i.e. not bit-perfect)?
mlerota
May 1, 2014 at 09:53
Yes you can. Just follow the exact rules.
I reinstalled the system and was able to edit the file / fstab like you said, but after restart the partition / sda3 gone 🙂 , need to mount it again to use it. I check one more time the line in fstab and its correct . what could be the problem? thank you for your help
Send me your fstab file…
file /fstab
#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
#
/dev/sda1 / ext4 noatime,defaults,ro 0 1
/dev/sda2 /config ext4 noatime,discard,nofail,rw 0 2
/dev/sdb1 /storage ext4 noatime,discard,nofail,user,rw 0 2
/dev/sda3 /storage ext4 noatime,discad,rw 0 2
tmpfs /home tmpfs noatime,rw 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,rw 0 0
tmpfs /run tmpfs nodev,nosuid,rw 0 0
tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,rw 0 0
tmpfs /var/log tmpfs nodev,nosuid,rw 0 0
tmpfs /var/cache/pacman tmpfs nodev,nosuid,rw 0 0
Remove “/dev/sdb1 /storage ext4 noatime,discard,nofail,user,rw 0 2” line. You can’t have two partitions mount the same /storage directory.
Thank you very much, now go well. sdb1 was the memory flash use for the restored files ….:)
when you will released the final version for AP Linux 3?
This is the version that we are using daily without problems. We uploaded it and named it beta just because we didn’t know how it’s going to work when installed on many systems. Many people downloaded it and we had only 3 or 4 reports about problems. With these numbers we can safely say this can be final version. We need to find time to finish the documentation (we have our daily jobs) and then we will declare this version as final. Maybe there will be few updates with newer version of some programs. But that’s it. You can safely use this version.
Install latest version fails, because second partition not created properly.
Although no errors reported during restore, I noticed errors reported when mounting sdb2 (/config) at boot time.
Mount failed due to superblock corruption, FS not recognized as ext4 FS. At first tried to fix this problem using backup copy of superblock, which failed.
Trying to fix this and to get rid of mount problem, I manually created an ext4 FS on 2nd partition which solved the mount issue of /config at boot.
As I was still unable to login using fluxbox, I found out that /config was mounted but empty. Obviously fluxbox login fails, as it points to /config/.fluxbox
As I got all this sorted out, I then decided to start from scratch.
It was during this second install I found the root cause, although REDO restore reports it was successful, using the disk utlity I noticed that 2 partitions were created as expected but:
– 1st 21Gb fs type ext4
– 2nd 1,1 Gb fs type unknown
Hence reported mount failure against /config during boot after install due to unrecognized FS
Problem due to *_part2 file in zip? As restore of 2nd part stuck at 1% and then reported as ok
Wheras restore of 1st part we clearly see 100% completed.
Downloading the .zip file a second time using wget did not solve the problem and checksum was ok.
I performed the install of v3 (19/04) using RedoBackup-APLinux-mod-1.iso on a usb3 key.
It looks like your hard disk is dying…
Looks like you were right… my rather new Corsair GT usb3 key is dying.
In the meantime I have both v2 and v3 installed on an internal hdd without any problem. Unfortunately my dac (Emotiva xda-2, uses C-Media 6631 chip for usb transport) is not recognized as such. But as usb high speed audio device, which is ok. I was hoping AP would (partially) solve the issues I have with this dac and linux.
Alsa and C-Media do not like each other, I have tested several distros/kernel releases without any luck. But I can honestly state that with AP-linux v2 and qjackctl and using jackd output in deadbeef I had by far the best sound quality till now, although qjackctl uses alsa……. Any idea why?
I will be testing v3 the upcoming days and hope to get (maybe) even better results with mpd.
btw Emotiva’s previous dac the xda-1, is recognized and works perfectly, so you may add it to your list of supported devices 😉
Thanks very much for the effort! I echo phred’s sentiment – download is very slow here too (Philippines) – getting only 40 to 70kB/s! May I suggest putting this as a torrent? 🙂
OK now have both a 2.1 and a 3 installation on my computer :). A couple of things: on 3.1 how can I set the resolution of my screen? I have an nvidia card and on 2.1 it uses the nouveau drive.. and I can use gvidm to set resolution ( I removed cinnamon and went to razor as the secondary window manger.) After reading some arch docs, I looked in /var/log/Xorg.0.log for info and only saw radeon drivers being tried. Any easy way to set a resolution with the included programs? Or should I figure I am gonna have to get online and do some careful installs of arch programs?
And in your wireless how-to I assume you are assuming that one has a wired connection to setup the wireless connect- how about buiilding a wpa-supplicant package that could be installed by those without wired connections.
I am very close to getting version 3 fully functional. 🙂 And I use 2.1 daily with real pleasure.
If you have digital input on monitor, your resolution should be set automatically. If you want to change that, you will have to search “Arch monitor resolution” on google to find out how to change this. For wireless, yes you need wired connection first to install that package 🙂
The Installation Instructions are confusing me a little bit.
If I have a dual-boot with only 1 drive evrything on this drive will be erased?
I can save my other OS with Clonezilla, but then?
If you install AP-Linux on that drive, everything will be erased. Yes you can save your other OS with Clonezilla or Redobackup but then…you have to know what you are doing and be experienced with Linux to do what you want…
Because I only need the other OS on Holidays I will clone the drive with Clonezilla and restore it before Holidays – seems to be the simplest solution for me:
Thanks!
That’s a spirit!
hi, if try to install this in a vmware, when the X server boots all goes black (one cursor in the top remains), trying to switch consoles (ctrl-alt-f1), all stays black but cursor moves.
There must be something with the X video driver, is there a possibility to boot without X to resolve this issue or to boot with vga flags?
There is no VMware xserver installed. That’s why this happens.
enabling sshd would be helpfull..
Sshd is installed but not enabled by default for security reasons.
I have a USB 3.0 addon card to the PCIe slot. I can see that USB sticks attached to this card are visible in Thunar File Manager. While I try to copy files from the USB stick, it is not accessible. Same applies to the USB DAC, it is visible in the DAC list and selectable in DeadBeef \ preference. But when I play music, Deadbeef just don’t work. Everything goes back to normal when I plug them to onboard USB 2.0 ports. Any solution ?
do you have a 32bit kernel version?
After some trouble I got it to boot and then…………… of course I didn’t thought about that. Intel Atom N270 only supports 32bit!
I don’t know if it’s possible and how much it would be for but I think AP-Linux is perfect for old (32bit) systems.
my initial impression on an i7 – in terms of clarity and musicality, APLinux v3 + Deadbeef > optimized Win Server 2012 + JPlay H mode. One just can’t stop listening !
thanks mlerota
Linux newbie here –
APlinux v3 is up and running but automount of USB flash / external HDDs seems to not work. Manual mounting works fine though. What could be wrong?
Thanks!
Options in /etc/fstab. Look on the Internet for examples. If your system won’t boot after changing the fstab file, you can always use redobackup cd and edit this file from redobackup. It’s like you have rescue cd.
I solved the auto mount of USB flash by :
gedit /etc/fstab
disable this line by putting a # at the front :
/dev/sdb1 /storage ext4 noatime,discard,nofail,user,rw 0 2
@mist – spot on! automount now works.
Big thanks!
Installed V3 on a Zodak Zbox ID18 – fine for those who don’t want to have a PC-Tower in their living room and cheap(100€) for those who have a 2.5 HD and some DDR3 ram they don’t need anymore.
After some confusion about “mount -o remount,rw /”(you are root but without that………..) everything works fine. Because my M2tech hiface is’nt recognized I can only use the onboard optical SPDIF, but the sound is very promising! Onboard SPDIF is a good advice for lowres mp3(Radio streaming) – the sound could be better than with a USB asynchron device! – but for uncompressed material it should be a little bit “hitech”.
I hope that there will come a workaround for the hiface or a how to do i am understanding!
One thing – how to get sound out of Chrome or Firefox ? I want to use the spotify webplayer.
Great job – with a mini-pc and a good DAC you can have a real good sound for low money. And I promise, I will donate! Thanks!
There is a XBMC AddOn called Spotlight for Spotify – great!
Thanks again!
Hello,
I´m a Linux Newbie and tried this Distribution.
I have no Wireless Network Connection. I make all steps like it´s shown in the Install Instruction, but there is no network. So I´ve tried to start the xfce-Desktop with start x, but only black screen. Can you give me Instructions how to start the xfce Desktop correct?
Oh- my SSID for the WLAN is ” FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7360″. Is this a problem in the commandline. In your Instructions I cant see ” ” to seperate SSID from Password. Safety is WPA2.
I´ve tried also to edit the wpa_**.conf with gedit, but I have not the rights to save the file.
Then I tried to start xfce-Desktop to configure the network – black screen.
I,ve also install wpa_gui, but he did not show me a network adapter and say there is no connection to wpa_**.conf.
And now – I dont know how its going on.
Thank you for your help.
MFG Thorsten
Before changing any system config files, you have to do this:
$ su
Password:
# mount -o remount,rw /
Then you do as in documentation. If you want to edit /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf do this:
# gedit /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
And there is no XFCE installed in 3.0 version.
I have an M2tech EVO, do i still need to install the drivers with this version??
We don’t know. We don’t use or have any M2tech DACs. Try and let us know.
I’m getting ready for install AP-LINUX v3. Just a couple of questions. I made a backup of all my music files to a WD My Cloud. Can the new AP-LINUX v3 mount it over the network? I can see the WD in the old AP-LINUX v2.1 but I couldn’t mount it to play from Deadbeef. I didn’t want to get stacked looking for a solution for the old version cos I’m moving to the new one. Also, if I install Windows in the same drive, how can I recover grub?
AP Linux can mount NFS and SAMBA/Windows shares and external disks. I don’t know what’s WD cloud. But if it’s on your network, and use SAMBA/NFS, you can mount it…
Successfully installed! No problem to access and play from my NAS, boot fast and recognize my DAC without any issue. Only problem I failed to set the local time, it gives me an error. I’m in Chicago so how should I type the commands to set it up.
The sound is by far superior to the old version. Amazing!
But I still need to run Windows for Netflix, so I’m concerns how to set up the dual boot. Could you explain how to do it.
It’s complicated to explain via comment. If someone needs windows, I suggest installing AP-Linux on small SSD and windows on some other disk. I will write documentation how to do this setup in the future. But for two operating systems on the same disk, it’s complicated for beginners on Linux.
i want that too, i still need windows on the other side of the hard drive, please provide the tutorial with screenshot
thanks
After successful installation the ssd frozen after restart. I’ve used the tools from the cd to reset the ssd and reinstalled the os but keeps frosting. I just got the splash screen of AP-LINUX and then black screen. Any idea? Anything with the BIOS?
Yes maybe something in BIOS.
Apparently the problem it’s that the system fail to mount the SSD. The Disk Utility says that the disk is healthy but the filesystem.squashfs says that the system is NOT clean. Any possible solution?
After a lot of attempts I came to the conclusion that the problem is the “new” ssd. Even fail to start up a windows installation (also got frozen).
I will try a different brand of ssd in the near future, any recommendation?
By now, running without major issues in my old hd. Still have some errors while bootloading but the system runs and sound great.
Corsair, Kingston, Intel… 🙂
Hello,
I am a newbie to arch linux, but know Linux Mint a bit. I managed to install AP linux, with on board storage, which contains some music files. The rest of my music is located on a Synology NAS. Is it possible to give an step by step overview of the commands needed to connect to the nas (via Samba) at reboot. If you have a link to a specific website giving the right explanation (with AP Linux) i am ok with that.
Thanks in advance
Not samba. Via NFS. Put this line in /etc/fstab
192.168.1.110:/volume1/music /storage/Music/synology nfs nfsvers=3,users,rw,auto 0 0
Of course replace ip address and directories.
Hello
Thanks for your answer. I put the line in fstab as you instructed and changed the directory names in the ones i use myself.
I can enter the directory in /storage/Music/synology , but when i issue the ls command the directory is empty. So i don’t see any contents of the nas.
by the way. i put some music files in the directory /storage/Music to listen some music anyway, and it sounds very nice. Great job thank you!
hello,
I solved the problem of not seeing any files on my Synology nas. With the line in the fstab as written above, the nas didn’t get mounted. After some searching on internet it seemed that fstab tries to mount the nas before the AP Linux client receives an Ip-address. According to the Arch Wiki you have a few options to solve this. I tried the option with the “x-systemd.automount” part in it, which waits for the network to become active.
This works fine for me.
Amazing sound! Thanks!
Of course I couldn’t wait to get my M2Tech Hiface working – so I bought a XMOS USB to SPDIF device from audiophonics (nice things on their online shop – use the google translate button in the right top corner).
With MPD I get the best sound I ever heard from my speakers(No HighEnd – ELAC 204 with selfbuild closed(!) box SEAS driven subwoofer, but my Open DAC/PRE from MGL is at least nearby HighEnd!)
Very open, detailed and neutral in the best sense of the word – and that makes fun!
Sometimes I wish to have more HiRes – but that depends on the recording and I never use more than 44.1/16 bit.
MPD seems not to like FALC files – unuseable! Deadbeef does’nt have a problem with FLACS.
There is a problem with USB Discs if they are attached before booting – MPD and Deadbeef and XBMC don’t get access to them. I have to open this discs first with Thunar and get an error message(operation is already pending), but then there is access to them.
Great work – with a cheap barebone and AP-Linux for free you get a very good basis to enjoy music and you should point out that AP-Linux is only free for private use!
Thanks!
As I wrote somewhere above –
Try to set buffer and period time in mpd.conf and your FLAC files will play. And AP-Linux is free for everyone who wants to use it. 🙂
I’ve found that I have to re-set the default card and re-mount manually the shares from the NAS every time I start ap-linux. So how can keep my settings between sessions? How can I suspend to disk? Also, Jack didn’t save any settings no matter that I click on the save button. How can I make Jack save its configuration?
Great product and service thanks. Just what I was looking for (what is the point of trying to stop all services in Windows to make it good for audio when this exists!) Feedback:
Robo restore would not see my USB stick. I was using a USB3 stick in a USB2 socket. When I changed to a USB2 stick there was no issue for restore.
The commands in the instructions for wifi setup seem to only work if you have an internet connection to the PC being setup. They also give an error if the SSID is less than 8 characters. What do you suggest in this case?
Post installation: I’m still trying but so far have not managed to access files on a USB stick.
The stick and drive are visible in FDISK. Does the individual drive and/or stick have to be mounted and can that be made permanent (for the drive)? I did try this (following general Linux help) but got a permission error trying to create a folder in /mnt.
Linux newbie as I’m sure you’ve guessed.
Hi Dave,
try this:
$ su
Password: (default: muser)
# mount -o remount,rw / (root is read-only by default)
# gedit /etc/fstab
and get rid of the line “/dev/sdb1 …………..”
I question the usefulness of this entry. More often than not, there’s no sdb1 on the system until you plug in the drive.
Also, if you’re using an old, expendable machine you could try removing both chassis and cpu fans, as I did, and add the following lines to .conkyrc (‘show hidden files’) in the muser home folder:
${color #ffff00}Core 0 Temperature: ${color #5555ff}${execi 30 sensors | grep ‘Core 0’ | cut -c16-17}°C
${color #ffff00}Core 1 Temperature: ${color #5555ff}${execi 30 sensors | grep ‘Core 1’ | cut -c16-17}°C
.. just to ease worries. So far I haven’t gotten past 66°C and the machine is so quiet (you have to strain to hear the PSU fan).
According to the ‘sensors’ output, 74° is considered high (and 100° critical)
You may have to add the line:
override_utf8_locale yes
to get the ‘°’ to display correctly.
Also, if it doesn’t display correctly, type ‘sensors’ in a terminal to check on nomenclature of your cores and correct lines above.
I have to say that I’m mightily impressed with AP-Linux. Music on Deadbeef is just fantastic (though I can detect no improvement when using VLC).
Compared AP Linux 3.0 + Zotac ID18 to Audirvana plus + MacBookPro(2010).
I didn’t it very long……my MacBook will be 2nd choice for music listening!
I will use the MacBook only for Spotify because of the better managing of my Spotify account.
AP Linux “sounds” selbstverständlich(I think there is no real translation of this german word ?) – I don’t think about how it sounds!
i have a login problem
the system kept saying failed to execute login command
no matter i use su:muser or muser:muser as username and password
i switched to terminal and muser:muser worked fine
however, i cannot startx
Wipe the hard disk (delete partitions and everything) and then try again.
i deleted all partitions and the hard disk became a single unallocated partition. i left it unallocated and did the restore process. but the login problem still exist.
Just found that if a 2nd data drive is connected to a lower SATA port # (in the motherboard) than the port # for Linux drive, boot process would fail. Linux OS drive must be connected to SATA port # 1 if the data drive is connected to port #2.
It would be nice to have the CPU temperature displayed on the desktop. I too had disconnected all chassis and cpu fans on an i7 3770 (no other jobs except audio playback) . It gets warm to the touch at environmental temperature of 25 degree C. A Windows app the “real temp” reported CPU temp. of 36 degree C.
Hi Mist
displaying the temperature on the Desktop is exactly what I alluded to in the earlier e-mail.
I don’t know your Linux experience, so forgive me if this is too basic, but conky is the program which runs the display on the right of the Desktop, showing top 5 processes, load levels, etc.
It looks for a (hidden) resource file (.conkyrc) in your home folder and displays what’s requested. The early part of the file outlines how it is to be displayed (fonts, colors, transparencies, etc.), but of interest to you will be what comes after the ‘TEXT’ line.
All I’m interested in is the cpu temperature, so I deleted everything that was there and have as a single line:
${color #ffff00}${execi 30 sensors | grep ‘Core 1′ | cut -c16-17}°C
which displays the temp. of core 1 (which is invariable the hotter of my two cores, by about 2°) in yellow.
To parse the line; execi tells conky to run the ‘sensors’ command at 30 seconds intervals and then to pass the output to the ‘grep’ program, which looks for a line containing ‘Core 1’, which then spews out this line to the ‘cut’ program, which in turn strips out characters 16 & 17 (the temp.) of that line.
No doubt, you’d have to tailor this to suit your circumstances.
In my resource file, I have inserted the line: “override_utf8_locale yes” to get the ‘°’ to display correctly and changed the font from 14 to 28px.
One final thing.
I discovered that nothing in the muser home directory survives a reboot. Instead, the contents of /home2/muser get copied to it. So for permanence, do the following:
su
password
mount -o remount,rw /
gedit /home2/muser/.conkyrc
and after editing:
mount -o remount,ro / (optional: to restore the read-only status of root, of which home2 is a sub-folder)
PS
Once I get thermal paste, I intend to remove the heatsink and clear the cooling fins of fluff and reattach with plenty of that paste, in the hope that I’d knock 5° off the temperatures. I couldn’t go back to reconnecting those fans.
I’d love if an overclocker could tell me if running at 63-66° long term would cause any damage. I don’t believe so – besides, I have access to several such computers.
Pardon error was
ERROR: device ‘/dev/sda1’ not found Skipping fsck.
ERROR: unable to find root device ‘/dev/sda1’
Your disk is not connected on first controller. Change cabling on the motherboard.
Unfortunately, my pc has a floppy port (1) ide (2) sata1 to which is connected the hdd and sata2 find an ide hdd is hard for me.
Thanks
nobady can help me?
Hi, Luca
I have installed the ap-linux 3 on USB Harddisk because of the Archlinux can run on USB Harddisk! The USB Harddisk will change when you insert it to difference USB port!
you can use the UUID to identifiy the Harddisk. The steps are following:
1. you can download the ap-linux 2.1 live CD, and boot it
2. insert your AP-Linux 3.0 which on USB Harddisk.
3. open termial, and use “sudo -s” to get the su permission.
4. type “blkid” in the termial, and get your USB Harddisk UUID
5. mount the USB Harddisk and change the /etc/fstab in the USB Harddisk, for examples:
#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
#
UUID=xxxx-xxxx-xx / ext4 noatime,defaults,ro 0 1
UUID=xxxx-xxxxx-xxx /config ext4 noatime,discard,nofail,rw 0 2
UUID=xxxaxxxx /storage ntfs auto,ro,utf8 0 0
tmpfs /home tmpfs noatime,rw 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,rw 0 0
tmpfs /run tmpfs nodev,nosuid,rw 0 0
tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,rw 0 0
tmpfs /var/log tmpfs nodev,nosuid,rw 0 0
tmpfs /var/cache/pacman tmpfs nodev,nosuid,rw 0 0
6. Change the file /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg and use UUID=xxxx-xxxx-xx to replace /dev/sda1. such as:
root=UUID=xxxx-xxxx-xx.
All UUID get it from command “blkid”.
Hi Tom, Admin,
Great comments thanks. I’ve been through the cycle of spending all weekend on it and thinking why did I ever start on Linux / why didn’t I just spend the money and get a dedicated player, moving to a state of thinking to certain extent that ‘I get it’. In fact even to the extent that I’d like to create or start a ‘Linux Basics and Gotcha’s for Windows users’ or similar document.
That could go in the forum but would get lost, could it be an FAQ doc?
The idea would be to explain terminology/concepts like ‘mount’, ‘mountpoint’, ‘filesystem’ and why it might become read only. Lack of understanding of these really gets in the way when trying to understand help on forums etc.
Your fstab/sdb1 comments hit the nail on the head though I’m not fully there yet as my drive (from fdisk -l) shows as vsFAT format which doesn’t seem to be recognised so far.
Thanks for the fan suggestions, so far I have AP-Linux on an old laptop however so only 1 fan. I did take the laptop apart and clean/oil the fan, add fresh thermal paste, and replace the hard disk with an SSD.
I just about got music playing from my NAS with this entry in fstab:
“//192.168.1.22/myLibrary/MyMusic /home/muser/music cifs auto, rw, uid=mpd, credentials=/etc/samba/mpd.smbcredentials 0 0”
This is with user and password defined in .smbcredentials.
But I think the NAS takes too long too wake up so the connection doesn’t (always?) get made on boot.
And it is not a friendly name in /music being /music/3ee506a2-1fdf-420b…….. ie the UID instead of a friendly name.
And I can’t get MPDroid on my phone to login (password not accepted). It worked on my tablet though but by that point the NAS connection had broken. I had to stop at that point so more testing needed.
Next I’ve got to try actually putting music on to the laptop SSD which I assume I will do in the file manager or with FTP.
And I need to get my UK keyboard recognised.
Such basic points!
Thanks again for the help. To be honest, I’ve only just noticed the FAQ’s on mounting and file copying. I don’t know why I didn’t look here first before doing general searches (but still there is a lack of conceptual explanation here, hence my suggested document is still valid).
Dave, you are absolutely right. I just don’t have enough time to write good documentation. So your comments help a lot. Thanks.
Hello,
Thank you for your new version.
I have some questions:
1. How can I add my music library HDD SATA 2TB NTFS to fstab file? I want automount every boot after.
2. How can I setup my network? I am using cable network an I could not setup:
– static ip
– subnet mask
– default gateway
3. How can I install X11VNC Server? I want to remote my screen of transportpc from any mobile device or pc with vnc viewer. I want to use my transportpc with no mouse, no monitor, no keyboard.
Thanks…
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_configuration
follow this instruction for hoping to create a static ip address every reboot.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_configuration
from page 7
create /etc/conf.d/network@eth0 //where eth0 is my network interface
create /etc/systemd/sytem/network.service //copy and paste as is on page 7
#enable network@eth0
enable: no such hash table element: network@eth0
what did i do wrong?
thanks
You should create file /etc/systemd/system/network@.service (not network.service) then do:
systemctl enable network@.service
systemctl start network@.service
Hi Tom,
Thx for the hint on showing cpu temperature on desktop. It works great. I’m new to Linux.
With a single core for testing, the grep “Core 1” returns nothing, so
1) I ran sensors in X-terminal to track the correct string required for grep.
the 9th line displays :
CPU Temperature: +56.0 C (High = +60.0 C, crit = +95.0C)
2) gedit /home2/muser/.conkyrc
add this line to the end of the TEXT section :
${color #ffff00}${execi 60 sensors | grep “CPU Temperature:” | cut -c22-63}upd per min.
(cut -c22-63 is to retrieve the nth to n+nth character from the above string)
(if this line is placed first in the TEXT section, then it displays topmost on desktop)
3) save the change and reboot.
Thanks
Try this:
${color 1793d0}CPU USAGE AND TEMPERATURE: ${color white}${execi 5 sensors | grep ‘Core 0’ | awk ‘{print $3}’} C
Hello,
How can I automount my 2TB NTFS HDD at startup.
Can I instal X11VNC Server for remote the screen from other pc and mobile device with VNC Viewer?.
Thanks…
Nadir
Open terminal. Become root (su enter).
# mount -o remount,rw /
Find out what’s your ntfs disk number with ‘fdisk -l’
Create directory for mount: # mkdir /win
gedit /etc/fstab and put something like this:
/dev/sdb1 /win ntfs rw 0 2
Replace sdb1 with your NTFS disk.
VNC: pacman -S x11vnc
And look at this post
http://www.ap-linux.com/forums/topic/enable-vino-vnc-server-at-startup/
Thank you very much.
Unfortunately, I could not network settings. I have wired network with router.
Address=(‘192.168.1.3/24′)
Gateway=’192.168.1.1’
DNS=(‘8.8.8.8’ ‘8.8.4.4’)
How can I configure network?
Hello,
Is there any way of upgrading from v2.1 to 3.0 or installing 3.0 without erasing the whole drive?
Will there be an iso image for installing 3.0 similar to 2.1?
Thanks,
No, sorry.
Hello,
I installed the AP-Linux, and use to play my music file! The Sound is Great!
When I play DTS Wav with Deadbeef, but the sound is not good!
I would like to know that how can I play DTS wave better in this AP-Linux?
DTS like dts in movies, surround sound? You can play this files with MPlayer.
Hi, mlerota
I am a new for linux, the mplayer use command to play that is very complicated for me. Some dts wave filename is utf8 and it is difficult for playing in command line.
did AP-Linux have gui interface for MPlayer to play the dts wave?
You can use VLC. Go to menu and find vlc.
Hello,
Can you advise on how to set a uk keyboard (laptop).
I’ve tried localectl for both locale and keymap. The gb/uk settings seem to be accepted but the keys still work as if the keyboard is a US one. On reboot the locale setting is retained but not the keymap.
I did get some dconf related errors at some point so will try a fresh install but if you know how to do this then I’ll try that first.
Thanks
Dave
For version 3.0 edit ~/.fluxbox/startup file and before conky add a line:
setxkbmap gb&
Logout and login.
Thanks mlerota, that worked immediately.
Wish I’d asked here instead of spending hours on the localectl command after web searching.
Seems I’m still learning basic linux concepts – what I now get is that the regional settings are at the Windows Manager level (Fluxbox) instead of at the Linux level.
Regards
Dave
Hello,
When I follow the FAQ 6 instruction:
>sudo su
>apt-get install openssh-server
I get “apt-get: command not found”. Is that command still there or has it been removed as part of minimilisation?
The FAQ is outdated for v3.0.
Thanks mlerota.
Is the general intention that we don’t add anything or is there a different method other than apt get?
I’ve been searching for advice on how best to manage a network share as my music is on a NAS. I tried to connect via an fstab entry but I think the IP address has not been dhcp allocated at the time it was processed. The apt get attempt came from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MountWindowsSharesPermanently. In the end I want other family members to be able to use the system so no manual steps. How would you handle the network share and would you set the music directory in mod.Conf to the network address? If not how can MPD / GMPC to see the NAS music?
It is great support you are giving for this beta product, are you taking donations?
Dave
OK finally managed to mount the NAS drive and get GMPC to see the music on it. Will write again to explain in case it is of use to others.
Hi Marko! I have been problems with the configuration of the system. It seems that it doesn’t save any changes, I mean every time I start up AP-Linux I have to select the sound card, I can’t install any apps in firefox or chromium, or save bookmarks, or save passwords. Same problem with the Jack config, I have to set it up every time a boot up the system. I took a video from the system booting and found that there’s a line in red:
“FAILED” ‘Failed to start Load/Save Random Seed’
and also something else like
“FAILED” ‘Failed to start Load/Save RF Kill Switch Status of rfkill11’
(I got this from a video cos it shows up very quickly on the screen).
I don’t think that it is a normal behavior. Could you help me to fix this?
Heya!
Successfully installed v3 beta, But after reboot the system freeze just before logg in. Mouse don’t show up nor logg in prompt.
Pretty new to linux so not sure where to start. Any suggestions?
Comp speccs:
Sony vaio
core i3
4gig ram
geforce 330m
Intel SSD 240GB 335 series.
Would love any respons on this topic. Trying to help my father replacing his raspberry solution. And I think we just found what we need. If we can get it to work.
Regards Tomas
(Just got v2 running and will try it out tomorrow with Bladelius Thor MKII)
Hi,
this version really made me angry! :/
Installation in itself from iso and zip files to harddisk is a piece of cake. I did it correctly like the manual says, but after reboot I get:
“ERROR: device ‘/dev/sda1’ not found. Skipping fsck.” etc.
So I changed ‘/dev/sda1’ on proper ‘UUID’ in both fstab and syslinux.cfg files like mentioned by user Big Circle.
This time I get:
“ERROR: device ‘UUID=7a336db8-(… and so on). Skipping fsck.”
Weird but ‘ls /dev/disk/by-id” gives only this:
usb-Sony_USB_HS-CF_Card_000000029012-0:0
usb-Sony_USB_HS-MS_Card_000000029012-0:2
usb-Sony_USB_HS-SD_Card_000000029012-0:3
usb-Sony_USB_HS-SM_Card_000000029012-0:1
no harddisks!!! :/
I have 3 harddisk in my desktop:
1 – ATA (installed AP-3, bootable)
2 – CDROM (ATA) slave
3 – SATA-2 (Windows, bootable) master
4 – SATA-2 (kubuntu, bootable, GRUB2) slave
in kubuntu disks 3 and 4 are reported as sdb, sdc and 1 as sda.
I tried Recovery both switching disks 3,4 in bios off and on with no effect.
Can anybody help?
Is this first sda or hda in kubuntu?
in kubuntu seen as first: sda1
I don’t know what’s the problem with your hardware. Try to disconnect all disks in your PC except that one /dev/sda and then install.
But firts wipe everything on /dev/sda disk. Partitions and all.
It did not help 🙁
I think the problem is with this harddrive, I can’t even install 2.1 version from iso on pendrive (prepared by YUMI).
Linux Mint Installation stops with:
“modprobe: module swap not found in modules.dep”
I tried other iso distributions and everything is ok, so the conclusion is: AP may not be installed from pendrive, only dvd 🙁
I installed it from two USB sticks. Redo backup on one, iso on another. So it can be done.
Dan
Hello,
I tried to install it on esxi 5.5.
I can install but when audiophile linux boot (after the blue sceen), it immediately stops saying:
ERROR: device “/dev/sda1′ not found. skipping fsck.
ERROR: Unable to find root device “/dev/sda1′.
Do you ever try to install on ESXI ?
Do you know which problem i could have ?
BR,
Alex
Forget any virtualization. You will get crap sound on any Virtualization software.
Hi Marko,
I have successfully completed the installation and configuration of the system and player DeaDBeeF … I use the KingRex UD384 DAC: Great sound! Great job you’ve done …
I was able to troubleshoot the network connection (wired only for now) and mounting HDDs (now recognized automatically).
Thank you so much for the advice: I will make another over donation because all the work you provide may not have the same value of an “app”.
I have a question related to usb3 ports: I need to attach express card in my laptop (an “anonymous” has come to me from Hong Kong).
What commands must be used for the AP-Linux system to recognize and to operate?
(…I have not found anything specific on the Net)
Another final detail: how can I configure the keyboard with Spanish writing?
Than you very much.
Hi, mierota !
I want install and integrate the MPD Client Cantata.
In GMPC Artist Art not works.
Can You help me ?
Thanks
Hi, during the installation hangs at about 70% with the following error: “CRC ERROR at eGain 413 483 008 …” What could have happened?
Another question: how to share HD properly? I use a 500 gb HD, and I would like to use 50gb for linux, windows 7 for 50 and the rest for music files.
Thank you
Everything is fine except
“wpa_supplicant -B -D wext -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf ”
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
Does anyone know solution? Thanks
Hello Marko.
I have successfully installed ap linux, but after first reboot I get an error message:
error: fsck failed on dev/ sda1
Well I have installed it on sdb1 and 2. sdb1 19,6 GiB, and sdb2 975MiB.
So what am I to do to boot from sdb HDD?
Thank you very much for the all the work and support 🙂
As far as I remember you need 27 gb on HD to the instalation. Maybe that’s why you get the error.
Change two files. /etc/fstab and /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg Open them, change sda to sdb, save and reboot.
Hello again.
Yes I had to install all over again and change the two files.
So now DeadBeeF is working, but Cantata can not load/display files..
And how can I play internet Stream, let it be in browser or in the player? It just do not let me play the streams.
Thanks -)
Hi,
Very impressed with this package.
I managed to build and install a module for my M2Tech DAC, but I need to tun ‘sudo insmod snd-usb-asyncaudio.ko’ everytime after a reboot. What would be the best way to have this performed automatically at startup?
su
Password: (default: muser)
# mount -o remount,rw /
echo ‘insmod snd-usb-asyncaudio.ko’ >> /usr/local/sbin/rc.local
You may put the whole path where you installed snd-usb-asyncaudio.ko module…
Should I remove Windows from your laptop before installing AP Linux?
Hi, try the following to automatically mount my NTFS volume but no luck.
su
Password: (default: muser)
# mount -o remount,rw / (root is read-only by default)
# gedit /etc/fstab
**** get the following error all the time when i try (gedit /etc/fstab)
(gedit:673): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed
Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)
(gedit:673): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed
*** but open the file anyway ***
i comment out –> #/dev/sdb1 /storage ext4 …..
and add /dev/sda3 /win ntfs rw 0 2 (after i ran mkdir /win)
fdisk -l shows
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2048 41945087 20971520 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 41945088 44042239 1048576 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 44042240 863989759 409973760 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 * 863989760 1953523711 544766976 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
#
/dev/sda1 / ext4 noatime,defaults,ro 0 1
/dev/sda2 /config ext4 noatime,discard,nofail,rw 0 2
#/dev/sdb1 /storage ext4 noatime,discard,nofail,user,rw 0 2
/dev/sda3 /win ntfs rw 0 2
tmpfs /home tmpfs noatime,rw 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,rw 0 0
tmpfs /run tmpfs nodev,nosuid,rw 0 0
tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,rw 0 0
tmpfs /var/log tmpfs nodev,nosuid,rw 0 0
tmpfs /var/cache/pacman tmpfs nodev,nosuid,rw 0 0
*** when i save the file, i get the following error message but it write the change to the file anyway
** (gedit:673): WARNING **: Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-spell-language not supported
the reason i think it’s still not mounted automatically because Thunar File Manger still show the NTFS drive is gray out.
what did i do wrong? thank you
what do you get when you run manually from terminal
# mount /win
or
# mount /dev/sda3 /win
?
Is the /dev/sda3 mounted? What command ‘df’ says? Don’t look Thunar. Maybe it’s mounted
already. Navigate with Thunar to /win.
[root@server1 muser]# mount /win
Mount is denied because the NTFS volume is already exclusively opened.
The volume may be already mounted, or another software may use it which
could be identified for example by the help of the ‘fuser’ command.
[root@server1 muser]# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 20511356 3076716 16369680 16% /
dev 1709360 0 1709360 0% /dev
run 1711568 8764 1702804 1% /run
tmpfs 1711568 0 1711568 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 1711568 0 1711568 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 1711568 0 1711568 0% /var/cache/pacman
tmpfs 1711568 88 1711480 1% /var/log
tmpfs 1711568 0 1711568 0% /var/tmp
tmpfs 1711568 8 1711560 1% /tmp
tmpfs 1711568 6104 1705464 1% /home
/dev/sda2 999320 6180 924328 1% /config
/dev/sda3 409973756 36538016 373435740 9% /win
tmpfs 342316 0 342316 0% /run/user/1000
/dev/sdc1 59987932 42562384 17425548 71% /run/media/muser/pny64
base on above, /win is mounted. the volume name of the NTFS partition is called ntfs shows in Thunar, and that is where the music files are located. and i need this ntfs, is mounted automatically so that GMCP Player can access at once upon startup. right now, i have to click the gray out ntfs icon in Thunar in order to play music.
i guest the question is /win = ntfs now after i put modify the following line in the /etc/fstab?
mkdir /win
#/dev/sdb1 /storage ext4 noatime,discard,nofail,user,rw 0 2
/dev/sda3 /win ntfs rw 0 2
thanks
i forgot to mention Navigate with Thunar to /win, i see /win is pointing to my win8.1 volume, not my other ntfs volume. now i swap sda3 to sda4, now i can see a folder(or short cut) pointing to my music ntfs volume. now it works. thanks
How to logout from Fluxbox and login in XFCE?
Hi!
I installed it, everything seems to work, but… I am using a E-MU 0404 USB, it is detected, if I play some 96kHz or 192kHz flac I see the right rate reported in /proc/asound/card1/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params, but the output sound is distorted.
Any suggestion?
It’s a bug in kernel. There is no fix for it now. You can do this: Open terminal, type alsamixer, select your soundcard and adjust your settings and the sound will be corrected. But you will have to do this every time on frequency change :-(.
Thank you for the answer and for your work!
I will try the solution you are proposing to test the setup.
Is there any chance that in the future the bug is going to be fixed?
Thank you!
I don’t have any emu0404 to test, but it may be resolved in future versions.
Installed on core2 with v-dac 90 works fine.
Great job Marko
Hope you’ll continue this distro.
Ah dimenticavo ottima la Rakija ma tu sei in Croazia?
Ciaooo
Of course I will continue this distro. What would I do without you guys :-). Yes I am in Croatia.
Marko, any thoughts on whether your distro would include the necessary drivers for a Kabini AM1 socket processor (with integrated video)? This 25 watt processor / motherboard combo appear ideal for HTTP use – but I would worry about building a box around it only to find that AP Linux 3 wouldn’t work with it.
If this is 64bit cpu and I think it is, it’s maybe already supported. But I can’t be sure. I can’t have all types of pc’s to test.
Marko,
Yes, it is 64 bit – but it’s also an APU, with a reasonably powerful graphics processor built in. The big thing I’d wonder about are the video drivers. I’ll get, however, I’ll just have build one and let everyone know.
Hello,
I have just installed version 3.0 Masic is good. But I have two dificulties.
First one : chromium does not produce sound through external DAC.
Second: Computer can not see external usb HDD 2 Tb. I have used it to install linux. But after that I PC does not see it.
Would you be so kind to help me with that.
Thank you in advance.
Kirill
I can not mount the in build SD card. Running ‘dmesg’ gives me this:
mmc0: error -110 whilst initialising SD card
How can I fix this?
Look for the solution on the internet.
http://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/1p6761/sd_cards_stopped_working_dmesg_included/
Hello,
Have installed the ap-linux but the keyboard on the laptop does not work.
Touchpad is working correctly but not the keyboard.
Currently using it by connecting usb keyboard.
Any solutions to this problem??
Thanks
Maybe you have unsupported laptop. What’s the laptop model?
Its LG xnote E200.
Can it be supported??
Thanks
Try this. When system start, on boot menu press “Tab” and add this ” i8042.nopnp=1 i8042.dumbkbd=1″
Hello,
it works great but
Does this have to be re-entered every time I boot?
Is there a way to edit permanently?
Thanks
Open termina. Become root. “mount -o remount,rw” In /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg find the line that starts with “LABEL APL” At the end of the APPEND line, add i8042.nopnp=1 i8042.dumbkbd=1. Save the file and reboot.
Hello again,
I can’t get sound from chromium browser (e.g. Youtube ) There is silence in speakers durnig paying clips om youtube. But generally music plays from MDP and video with VLC.
Any solutions to this problem?
Kirill
In your home directory there is a file .asoundrc. List your cards with ‘aplay -l’ command. Replace “hw:0,0” in .asoundrc with card listed with ‘aplay -l’. For example “hw:1,0”. Save the file and restart browser.
Ray Ton on 7th July 2014 asked for help with the following which I also get.:-
”
“wpa_supplicant -B -D wext -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf ”
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
Does anyone know solution? Thanks ”
What shows on the terminal when the above cmd is succesful.
Does the system on boot up automatically finds/connects to the network?
I have exactly the same error:
“wpa_supplicant -B -D wext -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf ”
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument
Any solution?
Hello,
I have setup the ap-linux and it works great.
But I need to reconnect my DAC evertytime after a reboot or shutdowns.
it does not recognize when it boots for the first time.
Is there a way to save the settings so that I do not need to keep plugging and unplugging everytime I want to play the music?
Thanks for the great help and great work
This is the problem with the DAC. Can’t help you with that.
I think that I have the same problem and I don’t think that is the DAC.
You boot aplinux, then you choose your DAC as default (in my case HW 1,0), you play music perfectly for hours and later you reboot. Then when you try to play music but you can’t your default card has move back to HW 0,0 so you have to put your DAC as default HW 1,0 again and every time you restart the computer (I think that David is unplugging and plugging as part of his solution for the same problem). I’ve tried to change the default card in the .asoundrc file but still goes back after restart. Also have the same issue with Jack and browsers they don’t save any changes, this is specifically annoying with Jack cos I have to put all the values every time I want to use it. I read that the root is by default read-only, could be an issue with that? Maybe there’s a way to change that temporarily just for adjustments so we could keep some basic configurations in between restarts.
That’s how Linux works with USB device assigning. You can force your DAC to always have the same number like this:
Find out which modules are loaded:
cat /proc/asound/modules
0 snd_hda_intel
1 snd_usb_audio
Create /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and add this:
options snd slots=snd_hda_intel,snd_usb_audio
options snd_hda_intel index=0
options snd_usb_audio index=1
This way your DAC (snd_usb_audio) will always be loaded as card1. So you
can put hw:1,0 in .asoundrc. and in mpd.conf. In new version of AP-Linux
all cards will be in mpd.conf and fix is finished for Jack and browsers.
ap_linux = best_music_experience
Installed on Acer Aspire One netbook, and is amazing.
Even using built in Intel sound – best sound ever.
Also read this site and improved my linux administration.
mlerota super smart teacher.
So impressed took review advise and ordered XSabre.
All the way from China to Texas in a several days.
Plug and play DSD!!!
Like Arch also so today:
pacman -Syu
Worked well, but usb -> XSabre quit outputting sound,
Onboard Intel still works.
So addicted to ap_linux I installed on another netbook,
XSabre working again,
but wonder if fix of Arch upgrade bug is low lying fruit for this crowd.
Yes update from this beta version can brake something. Wait a few days more and there will be new version released. 🙂
Why do you need 27 Gb of HDD storage for such an OS?!? I thought a much smaller disk space would suffice for an audio-only Linux device… No way for Intel’s NUC DE3815TYKHE with embedded 4 Gbs to be used without additional HD drives?
with one disk,it works ok
but after adding the seconds disk ,it prompts “fail login…”
what’s wrong?
When you add disks to your PC, you must know which one you will connect on SATA1 (/dev/sda) and which one on SATA2 (dev/sdb). If you had only one disk connected to SATA2 port, the disk will be shown as /dev/sda. If you connect another disk to SATA1 port, this one will become /dev/sda because now you have two disks. You must carefully choose where will you connect your disks. On your motherboard it probably says which SATA port is 0,1,2 etc…
thanks mlerota,
It’s ok now
I changed fstab, mount /dev/sda1 to mount uuid=”xxx”
Awesome work my friend, just awesome. Having been playing around with linux on and off for a few years now I appreciate how much time and effort it takes to go from zero to a system that almost anyone can use and install – I love the idea that you are turning a whole bunch of WinDoze fans into XTerm gurus !!
A quick question …
Instead of downloading FLACs to /storage partition, can I symlink an external drive with all my music on instead?
Cheers
/neill
Of course. It’s Linux 🙂
Hoorah for linux
LOL
Great, great job!! Amazing sound.
Thank you Marko for sharing your work!
I need a little help,
this is my fstab -l:
Disk /dev/sda: 149.1 GiB, 160041885696 bytes, 312581808 sectors
…….
/dev/sda1 * 2048 41945087 41943040 20G 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 41945088 44042239 2097152 1G 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 44042240 117231407 73189168 34.9G 83 Linux
It seems there are 93,2 GiB of unused space on disk, can you please suggest me a way to expand the sda3 partition?
I tried with # resize2fs /dev/sda3 but it didn’t work.
Or should I delete sda3 with fdisk and then create a new partition?
Try with Redobackup disk. Redobackup has nice graphical disk tools.
Hi guys,
any idea on how to access the PC with putty on this new version?
Thkz.