Attempts at Arturia CS0V (Ogg, if you are listening) ....

[looneytunes]

Hi Ogg,

I'm hoping you might be able to lend some Linux expertise here.

I'm curious (in general for Linux, in specific for Receptor) how one might get a Linux machine to recognize an (external) CD/DVD rom drive.

I'm guessing someone has to setup mount points to the device, and possibly also needs to have some drivers written for the specific device too.

I'd like to find some way of running Arturia's CD based installers on Receptor - and I'm trying to think 'out of the box' (no pun intended).

Any ideas?


Some other thoughts ....

I haven't tried this yet, but perhaps there is a way to install the CD disc image for the Arturia SW, and execute this from the Receptor HD

Another thought ...

I have CS80 partially up, but the editor doesn't launch (same situation as Hyber ... probably missing some obscure resources). However, the sound engine does seem to be there (eg. if you don't launch the editor, and you play notes from a midi keyboard, you seem to get the default program from CS80). I'm thinking perhaps if there is a way to export the CS80 programs to FXPs (from some other PC host, and install those fxps on Receptor) perhaps one could have a 'play-only' CS80 on Receptor.

Any ideas or comments?

Thanks, Regards,
Kevin L

[oGG]

Hi Ogg,

I'm hoping you might be able to lend some Linux expertise here.

I'm curious (in general for Linux, in specific for Receptor) how one might get a Linux machine to recognize an (external) CD/DVD rom drive.

I'm guessing someone has to setup mount points to the device, and possibly also needs to have some drivers written for the specific device too.

I'd like to find some way of running Arturia's CD based installers on Receptor - and I'm trying to think 'out of the box' (no pun intended).

Any ideas?

I don't have a CD in an external closure, so I haven't tried with that. I did have a small external harddrive lying around thou.

With the harddrive, the Receptor automounts every connected USB drive to /c/usbdrive (and should continue with /c/usbdrive2, /c/usbdrive3 and /c/usbdrive4 ig you connect more than one drive). These mountpoints are avalible to all applications running under Wine (read all VST you can run).

If the kernel have support for external CD drives (I sure hope they haven't left this feature out), I believe all you have to do is connect it (after the receptor has booted) and it should mount to /c/usbdrive. The mountpoints have "auto" selected as filesystem.

A simple way to verify if the kernel recognizes the CD is to read the kernel messages after you plug it in. Just type:

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# dmesg

at the prompt. When I connected my little USB hdd the output read as below:

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hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/6, assigned device number 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x58f/0x6390) is not claimed by any active driver.
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
  Vendor: Generic   Model: USB Disk          Rev: 9.02
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
USB Mass Storage support registered.
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 11733120 512-byte hdwr sectors (6007 MB)
 sda: sda1

If this doesn't work you have a couple of options:

1. Copy the installer or it's files to the receptor harddrive and run it manually [1].

2. If the above isn't possible, you can make an ISO file of the installation CD and copy it to the Receptors harddrive, then mount it [2], and then run the installer from the mounted ISO [1].



[1] How to run an .exe real quick
1. Copy the file to the harddrive
2.

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# DISPLAY=:1 wine <your .exe filename and/or location goes here>

3. You should now see the installer application in your remote control window (the GUI runs at :1 that's why I put DISPLAY=:1 in front to redirect everything to that screen, if you don't want to type it every time you can export the variable DISPLAY, such as

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# export DISPLAY=:1

Now everything you run will come up at :1.

[2] How to mount an ISO real quick
1. Copy the ISO to the harddrive
2.

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# mount -o loop /location/of/isofile.iso /c/usbdrive

3. run the .exe from /c/usbdrive as described in [1] above


The usual "don't blame me if you sqrew up" apply. I wrote this real quick (and late) so there might be (and probably is) typos and/or errors.


--
Olle Gustafsson

[looneytunes]

Hi Olle,

Thanks for your suggestions. I have some new things to try out now

Regards,
Kevin L