Howto: Install and use projectM music visualizer with pulseaudio support on Hardy

[sammydee]

Could be an issue with a compositing window manager?

Also, I'm running projectm in gnome, maybe it only affects gtk applications?

Sam

[punkrockguy318]

2.0 is working fine for me, however cmake has trouble detecting that pulseaudio is installed. i had to take out the pulseaudio checking lines in the cmake scripts to get it to compile, but it works great other than that

[fizyxnrd]

I installed the projectM and libvisual packages from the canonical repository for hardy. This got the libvisual plugins and the projectM libvisual plugin working in amarok. However, the projectM plugin did not behave well (graphical artifacts), and when I tried to bring up the menu (F1) the cursor locked and I could not recover without a restart.
I installed using the current svn and didn't have any luck either. I have the projectM-libvisual plugin made, but amarok doesn't recognize it in amarok_libvisual.

amarok_libvisual
libvisual CRITICAL: amarok_libvisual: visual_plugin_get_references(): Cannot load plugin: libgomp.so.1: shared object cannot be dlopen()ed
jess
bumpscope
corona
lv_flower
infinite
jakdaw
lv_analyzer
lv_gltest
lv_scope
madspin
nastyfft
oinksie

When I run projectM-pulseaudio, I get this error:

projectM-pulseaudio
dir:/usr/share/projectM/config.inp 
reading ~/.projectM/config.inp 
do_wait: drmWaitVBlank returned -1, IRQs don't seem to be working correctly.
Try running with LIBGL_THROTTLE_REFRESH and LIBL_SYNC_REFRESH unset.
projectM-pulseaudio: main/renderbuffer.c:2153: _mesa_reference_renderbuffer: Assertion `oldRb->Magic == 0xaabbccdd' failed.
Aborted

Finally, when I run projectM-test, I get the following output:

projectM-test
dir:/usr/share/projectM/config.inp 
reading ~/.projectM/config.inp 
Screen Resolution: 1280 x 1024
do_wait: drmWaitVBlank returned -1, IRQs don't seem to be working correctly.
Try running with LIBGL_THROTTLE_REFRESH and LIBL_SYNC_REFRESH unset.
configFile: /home/knielson/.projectM/config.inp
MAX SAMPLES:2048
No Textures Loaded from /usr/share/projectM/textures

and the projectM window refuses to close. I compiled this with FBO turned off. When I compiled with FBO on, I got the same output followed by a seg fault, and no window.

I am using Gnome, and running on an integrated S3 ProSavage 8.
Are these details helpful? What can I do to get things running?

[fizyxnrd]

Well, I went ahead and installed projectM and libvisual through amarok on a friend's ubuntu system, and everything worked reasonably well. I'm forced to conclude that the S3 ProSavage GMA is just friggin' old. Hope this helps anyone with similar problems.

[Rangua]

hi, i've tried to install projectm from synaptic, but after it installs the command isn't available... i've tried looking for the program but it seems it didn't got installed.. i've also tried doing the svn thing, but i get an error saying (on make):

/home/rangua/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/projectM-test/getConfigFilename.cpp:31:26: warning: character constant too long for its type
/home/rangua/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/projectM-test/getConfigFilename.cpp:32:34: warning: character constant too long for its type
/home/rangua/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/projectM-test/getConfigFilename.cpp:33:25: warning: character constant too long for its type
/home/rangua/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/projectM-test/getConfigFilename.cpp: In function ‘std::string getConfigFilename()’:
/home/rangua/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/projectM-test/getConfigFilename.cpp:31: error: invalid conversion from ‘int’ to ‘const char*’
/home/rangua/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/projectM-test/getConfigFilename.cpp:31: error: initializing argument 2 of ‘char* strcpy(char*, const char*)’
/home/rangua/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/projectM-test/getConfigFilename.cpp:32: error: invalid conversion from ‘int’ to ‘const char*’
/home/rangua/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/projectM-test/getConfigFilename.cpp:32: error: initializing argument 1 of ‘size_t strlen(const char*)’
/home/rangua/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/projectM-test/getConfigFilename.cpp:33: error: invalid conversion from ‘int’ to ‘const char*’
/home/rangua/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src/projectM-test/getConfigFilename.cpp:33: error: initializing argument 1 of ‘size_t strlen(const char*)’
make[2]: *** [projectM-test/CMakeFiles/projectM-test.dir/getConfigFilename.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [projectM-test/CMakeFiles/projectM-test.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

and i've also tried downloading the source and installing it, but when i do make install i can't find where the binary went (probably happens the same with the .deb).. here are the last lines of make install:
-- Up-to-date: /usr/share/projectM/fonts/Vera.ttf
-- Up-to-date: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libprojectM.pc
-- Installing: /usr/share/projectM/config.inp
-- Up-to-date: /usr/include/libprojectM/projectM.hpp
-- Up-to-date: /usr/include/libprojectM/event.h
-- Up-to-date: /usr/include/libprojectM/dlldefs.h
-- Up-to-date: /usr/include/libprojectM/fatal.h
-- Up-to-date: /usr/include/libprojectM/PresetFrameIO.hpp
-- Up-to-date: /usr/include/libprojectM/PCM.hpp

up from here all goes into /usr/share/projectM...
help? please...

i'm using intrepid, amd64

[lamelos]

I'm trying to get this working in Intrepid but I'm getting an error at the start of compilation. I think this has something to do with new updates to svn.



I'm not sure what the problem is here

Thanks in advance.

I had the same problem, but seem to have 'fixed' it now.
The problem seems to be that FTGL.h is in lowercase (on my pc it was anyway - Intrepid 8.10) and thus it can't be found by the 'make'-command.

This is how i fixed it:

Before you do 'make'

cd libprojectM
gedit Renderer.hpp

then edit lines 28-30 from
this:

#include <FTGL/FTGL.h>
#include <FTGL/FTGLPixmapFont.h>
#include <FTGL/FTGLExtrdFont.h>

to this:

#include <FTGL/ftgl.h>
/**#include <FTGL/FTGLPixmapFont.h> */
/**#include <FTGL/FTGLExtrdFont.h> */

after this, exit gedit
and

cd ..
make

now the make succeeds, and you can proceed with

sudo make install

Hope it works for you as well.

[Zularan]

Just confirming this works fine for Intrepid.

Steps I used were:

sudo aptitude install libglew1.5 libglew1.5-dev ftgl-dev libpulse-dev subversion cmake libvisual-0.4-dev libsdl-dev libqt4-dev build-essential

cd ~
mkdir projectm
cd projectm
svn co https://projectm.svn.sf.net/svnroot/projectm/trunk projectM-Trunk

cd projectM-Trunk/src

ccmake .

Now cmake will load. Press "c" to configure projectM. Highlight the CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE field, press enter and type "Release" there. Press enter again. Then highlight the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX field and change /usr/local to /usr/. Then press "c" again to configure it with those parameters.

Had some warnings that looked like

CMake Warning (dev) at projectM-libvisual/CMakeLists.txt:14 (ADD_DEFINITIONS):
Policy CMP0005 is not set: Preprocessor definition values are now escaped
automatically. Run "cmake --help-policy CMP0005" for policy details. Use
the cmake_policy command to set the policy and suppress this warning.
This warning is for project developers. Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

I went on anyway.

First make failed but lamelos' fix worked fine.

cd libprojectM
gedit Renderer.hpp

then edit lines 28-30 from
this:

#include <FTGL/FTGL.h>
#include <FTGL/FTGLPixmapFont.h>
#include <FTGL/FTGLExtrdFont.h>

to this:

#include <FTGL/ftgl.h>
/**#include <FTGL/FTGLPixmapFont.h> */
/**#include <FTGL/FTGLExtrdFont.h> */

after this, exit gedit
and

cd ..

Now cmake . worked

cmake .

make

now the make succeeds, and you can proceed with

sudo make install

projectM-pulseaudio should be in Menu -> Sound and Video
or cli

projectM-pulseaudio

Worked today with svn revision 1198 on Intrepid.

[mocha]

I thought projectM was supposed to be in Intrepid repositories? I haven't upgraded yet.

[arkmundi]

Thanks to the folks working on this. I'm the kind of Ubuntu user that balks at 'programming' my machine - just want to reach into the repository and get what works. So I ditched MS Windows, bought a Dell 1525, went through the learning curve, upgraded to 8.04 Hardy and continued on the path of finding replacements for everything windows. I'm satisfied, except for that winamp-milkdrop thing. Found my way here. Hope one of you ubuntu projectm-libvisual-pulseaudio stalwarts will post a message letting us know when. Looks close. Many thanks!

[durand]

Seems like only the libvisual version is in the repos, not pulseaudio but compiling it was really fast and works great! Too bad I don't have a use for visualisations..