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

[struktured]

Both very doable in the Qt4 framework (or any gui of course). I will consider these simple mods and possibly implement them when my work dies down.

Please post your feature requests on our sourceforge tracker accessible via

http://projectm.sf.net


-struk

[struktured]

mouse hiding is implemented on trunk r1016. Let me know if its the desired behavior.

[El Lance-O]

I used this guide to compile ProjectM on gutsy, and it worked wonders, no problems at all.

But now...

When I run projectM-test, nothing happens. At all.

When I run projectM-pulseaudio, the qt menu comes up, but if I try switching to another visual, or wait for it to switch by itself, I get

ellanceo@TheThinGreyBox:~$ projectM-pulseaudio
dir:/usr/share/projectM/config.inp 
reading ~/.projectM/config.inp 
configFile: /home/ellanceo/.projectM/config.inp
MAX SAMPLES:2048
load config END 
unconnected: connecting... 
connectHelper:  "alsa_output.pci_8086_27d8_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0.monitor" 
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'int'
Aborted

Help?

Please?

I really really REALLY love ProjectM, and it is definitely one of the highlights of my lappytop.

[punkrockguy318]

Both very doable in the Qt4 framework (or any gui of course). I will consider these simple mods and possibly implement them when my work dies down.

Please post your feature requests on our sourceforge tracker accessible via

http://projectm.sf.net


-struk

Mouse hiding works like a charm

[struktured]

El-Lance-O - not easy to trace that. Try giving me a stack trace of it, maybe that will reveal something? That is, build in debug mode, then run it in gdb.

[El Lance-O]

How would I go about doing that?

I am quite new to compiling things, and I couldn't find a list of arguments for projectM to run it in say verbose mode or anything of the sort so that I might get more feedback.

[struktured]

Do same steps as shown in tutorial, but change CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE to Debug rather than Release. Then type "gdb /usr/bin/projectM-pulseaudio" . Then type the command "r" inside of gdb to run it. If it crashes then type "bt" for a backtrace and post the results.

[DarrenCT]

I'm new to this ProjectM thing, but am a big fan of the milkdrop visualizations. I have installed "libprojectm1 & libprojectm1-data & libprojectm-dev" from the Hardy repos, and I try to run the command "projectM-pulsaudio" and nothing happens, just "command not found". the one from the repos seems to be version 1.01-5. There doesn't seem to be a binary listed under the properties for libprojectm1 ... just libraries, and docs. I'm sure pulseaudio is working, as I have tested it through the sound option. Please let me know how I can make this work.

Thanks

[punkrockguy318]

I'm new to this ProjectM thing, but am a big fan of the milkdrop visualizations. I have installed "libprojectm1 & libprojectm1-data & libprojectm-dev" from the Hardy repos, and I try to run the command "projectM-pulsaudio" and nothing happens, just "command not found". the one from the repos seems to be version 1.01-5. There doesn't seem to be a binary listed under the properties for libprojectm1 ... just libraries, and docs. I'm sure pulseaudio is working, as I have tested it through the sound option. Please let me know how I can make this work.

Thanks

the projectm from the hardy repos do not include the projectM-pulseaudio program. it's recommended that you either follow the instructions on the first page to build projectM from the latest source, or wait for projectM to release 1.2

[Steve Fisher]

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