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

[sensimilla]

Many thanks for the tutorial

Got it working great here on 64-bit Hardy with an 8800gt and it looks absolutely superb. I Just had to downgrade the ftl-dev package, I did this by uninstalling the original version via synaptic and then double clicking and installing the .deb file linked to in this thread. No command line required

ProjectM has really improved from the last time I tried it, maybe 9 months ago. I could'nt get the standalone version to compile then, so it only worked in Amarok and I couldn't get it to start on my TV, also a lot of the presets didn't work well and were very glitchy and full of artifacts. I guess that switching from an ATI to an Nvidia card might of helped some. So massive props out to the developers

If people want to uninstall projectM then you should install it using checkinstall this is a bit of software that builds packages from make files.

sudo apt-get install checkinstall

Then instead of using

make && sudo make install

just do

make

then if that completes

sudo checkinstall

checkinstall will start and you can type in a description, follow the directions, you also might need to change the name to projectm. Checkinstall should then build a .deb package and install it for you. This can then be uninstalled in the usual way via apt-get or synaptic.

I hope this is clear enough. There is a lot more info on checkinstall in these forums so do a search if you need more guidance or ask here

[sammydee]

sensimilla: I almost suggested using checkinstall in the howto, but when I actually tried to install projectM with checkinstall, it didn't install properly, so I didn't include it in the end.

Did it work properly for you?

sam

[sensimilla]

Yep, checkinstall is working for me using build 1024.

I have only 4 presets installed by default, now I seem to remember there were more when I did a make install but I updated from cvs before that so I'm not really sure what has caused this or if that is just normal. The torrent pack has fixed that anyhow

[Xzavier]

Alright I've resolved my issues with ccmake and qt not playing together nicely. all is compiled, and with running the app Segmentation fault..

xzavier@Dragon:~/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src$ projectM-pulseaudio
dir:/usr/share/projectM/config.inp 
trying to create ~/.projectM/config.inp 
created ~/.projectM/config.inp successfully
configFile: /home/xzavier/.projectM/config.inp
MAX SAMPLES:2048
load config END 
Segmentation fault

[diegomedaglia]

For those of us with the seg faults, when you're in the cmake just turn "off" USE_FBO. Works like a charm now!

Worked for me too! Thanks!

[Xzavier]

Well i made some progress.. but apparently hit another large wall.. I really do appreciate all the help thats been provided.

xzavier@Dragon:~/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src$ projectM-pulseaudio 
dir:/usr/share/projectM/config.inp 
reading ~/.projectM/config.inp 
configFile: /home/xzavier/.projectM/config.inp
MAX SAMPLES:2048
load config END 
Connection failure: Connection refused
QGLContext::makeCurrent(): Failed.
*** glibc detected *** projectM-pulseaudio: double free or corruption (out): 0xbfbebc70 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0xb6c6fa85]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(cfree+0x90)[0xb6c734f0]
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6(_ZdlPv+0x21)[0xb6e15b11]
/usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QActionD0Ev+0x184)[0xb7607894]
/usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN14QObjectPrivate14deleteChildrenEv+0x4c)[0xb7372e3c]
/usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4(_ZN7QWidgetD2Ev+0x15e)[0xb7659d1e]
/usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4(_ZN11QMainWindowD2Ev+0x31)[0xb79b4a21]
/usr/lib/libprojectM-qt.so.1(_ZN20QProjectM_MainWindowD0Ev+0x36a)[0xb7f2545a]
projectM-pulseaudio(_ZN17QPulseAudioThread22context_state_callbackEP10pa_contextPv+0x7c)[0x8055bac]
/usr/lib/libpulse.so.0[0xb7e03f62]
/usr/lib/libpulse.so.0[0xb7e04567]
/usr/lib/libpulse.so.0[0xb7e04aba]
/usr/lib/libpulse.so.0[0xb7e050fe]
/usr/lib/libpulse.so.0[0xb7e344f5]
/usr/lib/libpulse.so.0(pa_mainloop_dispatch+0x291)[0xb7e0e6e1]
/usr/lib/libpulse.so.0(pa_mainloop_iterate+0x51)[0xb7e0e9a1]
/usr/lib/libpulse.so.0(pa_mainloop_run+0x34)[0xb7e0ea64]
/usr/lib/libpulse.so.0[0xb7e1a753]
/usr/lib/libpulse.so.0[0xb7e3bac9]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0[0xb70bd4fb]
/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(clone+0x5e)[0xb6cdae5e]
======= Memory map: ========
08048000-0805e000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 705604     /usr/bin/projectM-pulseaudio
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b5fa7000-b5fa9000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 70586cleanupAbortedxzavier@Dragon:~/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src$

If i run the cmd again then this comes

xzavier@Dragon:~/projectm/projectM-Trunk/src$ projectM-pulseaudio 
dir:/usr/share/projectM/config.inp 
reading ~/.projectM/config.inp 
configFile: /home/xzavier/.projectM/config.inp
MAX SAMPLES:2048
load config END 
Connection failure: Connection refused
X Error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) 10
  Extension:    128 (Uknown extension)
  Minor opcode: 5 (Unknown request)
  Resource id:  0x156
projectM-pulseaudio: Fatal IO error: client killed

since posting this i reinstalled pulseaudio and enabled it under System -> apps -> sound
and now appears to work.. but this opened up a whole nother can of worms.. appears i cannot play audio files as well as videos on the web and other such things at the same time..

[MinkeyMan]

For all of you having diffculty installing ProjectM on Hardy:

http://www.filefactory.com/file/562c66

Try this deb file, it's the RC4 version. I'll try and compile the SVN and make a deb of that too. This is the Pulseaudio version only.

[Jojo12a]

well, can you please add the following to your control-file? Then no deb system can come into strange problems now or in future...

Replaces: libprojectm2, libprojectm1-data, libvisual-projectm
Conflicts: libprojectm2, libprojectm1-data, libvisual-projectm, libqt4-gui (>= 4.4.0)

This will lead to conflicting projectM 1.0 files being properly removed... adding something like projectm-pulseaudio and libprojectm-qt1 is also good, but who knows how the valid packages will be called later ;(


doesn't work anyway for me, have you got backports' Qt 4.4.0 or main's Qt 4.3.4? I just realized that this could be the cause of my problems... ;(

well, Qt 4.4.0 is really a problem that break libprojectm-qt, so I have added it to the conflicts

I've got a script for making DEB packages from SVN for libprojectm and libprojectm-qt (see attachment), but for projectM-pulseaudio, I will update it later... for now, you can use the binary which I will attach too. It works if you have the build dependencies installed (for now, I haven't managed to build in a check). You will need at least debuild, subversion, build-essentials, debhelper and libqt4-dev, besides the given build-depends. If you get an error, this will probably be because of some missing packages ... it can obviously eat your cat, make your grandma explode etc., so NO WARRANTY!

[MinkeyMan]

well, can you please add the following to your control-file? Then no deb system can come into strange problems now or in future...

Jeepers, I forgot about the repository version of projectM. Thanks for reminding me. I'm using the main version of QT, not the backports version BTW.

I just tested this on my PC and a virtual machine with a clean install so it should work:

Download projectm_1.1RC4_i386.deb.

Hope this works. Oh, and I apologise for the crazy array of free hosting sites.

[Jojo12a]

I have just completed Version 0.2 (the first try was 0.1) of my svn-to-deb tool for projectM... it can now compile the pulseaudio frontend. The libvisual frontend will be done later and is up to now impossible to build with my tool... just unpack the attached tarball and execute the shellscript inside. I have also added some lines of code to ask some questions which are necessary to build the packages correctly and to know what to build. For Pulseaudio, please answer 'y' to Qt and PulseAudio... if any error occurs while the packages are compiled, it's either because I missed some build-deps or because of some errors in my code or the upstream SVN code, so please tell me if there are any problems ...

Disclaimer: this tool can obviously eat your cat, poison your grandma, create an earthquake or do any other unexpected harm, so I don't provide any warranty whatsoever