problems running mixxx (direct rendering, segfault)

Linnea Forslund supermoccine at gmail.com
Sun Oct 23 06:52:39 PDT 2005


Yesterday I installed mixxx and managed to start it, but only as root.
Then i got this message:


"Direct rendering is not enabled in your machine.

This means that the waveform displays will be very slow and take a lot
of CPU time. Either upgrade your configuration to enable direct
rendering or disable the waveform displays in the control panel by
selecting "Simple" under waveform displays. NOTE: In case you run
NVidia hardware direct rendering may not be present, but you will not
experience a degradation in performance."


I tried selecting "simple" but it said that the changes will take
effect only after I restart the program and since it started everytime
like the first time it was back to the normal waveform again.

Also the sound was hacking. I don't know if this was because of the
waveform-thing. If it's something else then I have another problem.


Today it won't start from root etiher. I get the same text as when I'm
"ordinary":

Debug: Starting up...
Debug: MidiObjectOSS: No MIDI devices available.
Debug: playlist name Default
Debug: id 0, sr 8000, ch 2, bufsize 16, bufno 400
Segmentation fault (core dumped)


I'm supposed to have this running smoothly on thursday when I'm taking
care of the music at my schools halloween-party so I'm kind of
stressed out. Do you think you can help me? I'm new to both unix and
freeBSD so if you explain things like I'm a retarded kid i might get
it ^^


Here they had the same problem:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1236134&forum_id=156157
and someone said I "can disable visuals manually by editing your
~/.mixxx.cfg file so that the line with Visuals reads 1 instead of 0"
Sounds like something to do if nothing else works. How would I do
that?


/Linnea


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