Rivendell on Ubuntu-Tryphon
From Rivendell Wiki
Please see Alban's blog for items taged Ubuntu for information about the latest Ubuntu Rivendell packages available from debian.tryphon.org.
See this blog post by Alban for information on how to get the Tryphon packages for Ubuntu Hardy.
See this blog post by Alban for information on how to get the Tryphon packages for Ubuntu Intrepid
Easy tutorial
For an easy tutorial for setting up Rivendell on Ubuntu Hardy and Intrepid visit Alban's blog.
http://blog.tryphon.org/alban/archives/2009/04/19/quick-start-for-rivendell-on-debianubuntu/
When using more than one soundcard and Alsa… the sound cards sometimes swap around so sometimes one card is card 1 and the next time it is sound card 0.
If you edit the alsa-base file /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base by adding options to hard code which sound card is which. For example….
options snd-emu10k1 index=0
options snd-hda-intel index=1
options snd-bt87x index=2
type the below line to find out the exact driver name for each sound card
cat /proc/asound/modules
and the resulting readout will tell you what your sound cards are... (except change the underscore to a hyphen)
0 snd_intel8x0 1 snd_emu10k1x
Mysql Configuration
If you have a network setup with multiple machines and wish to connect a client machine to main server you may have to alter the
/etc/mysql/my.cnf file
Look for a line saying...
bind-address = 127.0.0.1
and change to...
bind-address = 0.0.0.0
You may have to stop/start mysql or your server for the changes to take affect. A quick scan of your server using nmap should confirm if the mysql port on your server has been opened. (Just warn your network admin if your gonna do a port scan)
Buttons in RDAirplay
Many users of Rivendell on Ubuntu have reported hard to read text on RDairplay for text on the start/stop buttons. A post to the mailing list from Stefan explains how to fix it.
This is because some buttons have bitmaps and on Ubuntu bitmap fonts are disabled by default. To change this:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig-config
enable bitmap fonts
and then:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig
Restart RDairplay and fonts look a lot cleaner and easy to read.
