Preview: Measurements 1.3.0

[agent_kith]

Installation is now simplified into a single command:

Works on x86_64 (focal, jammy, lunar)
Works on aarch64 (Pi Debian bookworm and ubuntu jammy). Should work with Ubuntu lunar too
 

Code:

bash -c "$(wget -qLO - https://artifacts.snakeoil-os.net/artifacts/snakeoil-installer.sh)"

I'm going to leave it here and officially publish this later today or early tomorrow. Then work on updating the wiki. Then will start work on GUI for camilla DSP.

Any last minutes problems, please leave a note.

[Snoopy8]

Works on aarch64 (Pi Debian bookworm and ubuntu jammy). Should work with Ubuntu lunar too

Found aarch64 Ubuntu lunar 23.04 image here as an iso file and had to use Rufus / balenaEtscher to write to sd card.
https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/lunar/release/
Boot failed.

It will be better if we use Ubuntu mantic 23.10, which is available on Raspberry Pi Imager, Ubuntu website and ready for Pi5 ? I tried SO install script on 23.10 and it said OS not supported. Version: mantic Arch: aarch64. Probably too late to change before release tomorrow?

[agent_kith]

Found aarch64 Ubuntu lunar 23.04 image here as an iso file and had to use Rufus / balenaEtscher to write to sd card.
https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/lunar/release/
Boot failed.

ISO file is probably meant for Single Board Computers (SBC) with aarm64 (arm v8) CPUs. The ISO image will need BIOS/EFI (i.e. boot up like a computer, but using an arm CPU instead of Intel/AMD CPU).

Scroll down the page and you will get a Raspi image with an extension of img.

It will be better if we use Ubuntu mantic 23.10, which is available on Raspberry Pi Imager, Ubuntu website and ready for Pi5 ? I tried SO install script on 23.10 and it said OS not supported. Version: mantic Arch: aarch64. Probably too late to change before release tomorrow?

Can you try again and see if it works now? Snakeoil is a static build so should be more compliant across platforms (with one exception, a library called glibc)... If Snakeoil crashes often then I'll remove support for mantic for now.

[Snoopy8]

ISO file is probably meant for Single Board Computers (SBC) with aarm64 (arm v8) CPUs. The ISO image will need BIOS/EFI (i.e. boot up like a computer, but using an arm CPU instead of Intel/AMD CPU).

Scroll down the page and you will get a Raspi image with an extension of img.

OOOPS!   
I found the image, but did not try it. Had only time to try 23.10, see below.
 

Can you try again and see if it works now? Snakeoil is a static build so should be more compliant across platforms (with one exception, a library called glibc)... If Snakeoil crashes often then I'll remove support for mantic for now.

Install worked, took much, much longer than Bookworm, SO is running, mpd playing music  but can only a full test tomorrow (am going out soon!).  All go for mantic !  Well done AK.

[Snoopy8]

Comments for Mantic, Ubuntu Raspi 64 23.10

Mantic running mpd 0.22.9, 0.23.5 with no problems.  SO restored old settings with no issues.  NFS library reloads properly, unlike Bookworm which requires manual reload.  Also no problems with mpd player remembering audio output unlike Bookworm which sometimes forgets.

Mantic issues:

• LMS cannot start with log showing: Start Player: cd /var/www;/var/www/players/lms/start /var/www/players/lms 2>&1;
  
• CPUsets not working, no etc/deafult/grub file. Tried adding grub file, but no grub update??
  
• Cannot compile RT kernel "out of the box" unlike Bookworm
  
• Still have problem installing CamillaDSP.  FATAL: Module snd-aloop not found in directory /lib/modules/6.5.0-1008-raspi.  Was hoping newer kernel would fix problem...
  

@hkphantomgtr I did another listening comparison between Ubuntu 23.10 (mantic) and Raspberry Bookworm using mpd 0.23.5.  Ubuntu does sound a little better but the difference was not as much as you reported with Roon End point.

[agent_kith]

[*]Still have problem installing CamillaDSP.  FATAL: Module snd-aloop not found in directory /lib/modules/6.5.0-1008-raspi.  Was hoping newer kernel would fix problem...

Same kernel version as in Bookworm? I wonder, maybe Linux kernel developers have removed snd-aloop from the source code?

[Snoopy8]

• Still have problem installing CamillaDSP.  FATAL: Module snd-aloop not found in directory /lib/modules/6.5.0-1008-raspi.  Was hoping newer kernel would fix problem...
  

Same kernel version as in Bookworm? I wonder, maybe Linux kernel developers have removed snd-aloop from the source code?

Bookworm is using 6.1 kernel sourced from Raspberry repository.  Mantic is using 6.5 kernel sourced from Ubuntu repository.  I suspect Ubuntu removed snd-aloop ?

[Snoopy8]

Confirming preview script works for Pi Bookworm 64 Lite, with no issues.  Minor point: please default mympd to not installed; it creates Smart playlists that LMS can see and it takes time to manually delete them.

[agent_kith]

Confirming preview script works for Pi Bookworm 64 Lite, with no issues.  Minor point: please default mympd to not installed; it creates Smart playlists that LMS can see and it takes time to manually delete them.

Will find ways to do that in a later build. To be honest I hate smart playlists.. Don't like them myself..

[hkphantomgtr]

Comments for Mantic, Ubuntu Raspi 64 23.10

Mantic running mpd 0.22.9, 0.23.5 with no problems.  SO restored old settings with no issues.  NFS library reloads properly, unlike Bookworm which requires manual reload.  Also no problems with mpd player remembering audio output unlike Bookworm which sometimes forgets.

Mantic issues:

• LMS cannot start with log showing: Start Player: cd /var/www;/var/www/players/lms/start /var/www/players/lms 2>&1;
  
• CPUsets not working, no etc/deafult/grub file. Tried adding grub file, but no grub update??
  
• Cannot compile RT kernel "out of the box" unlike Bookworm
  
• Still have problem installing CamillaDSP.  FATAL: Module snd-aloop not found in directory /lib/modules/6.5.0-1008-raspi.  Was hoping newer kernel would fix problem...
  

@hkphantomgtr I did another listening comparison between Ubuntu 23.10 (mantic) and Raspberry Bookworm using mpd 0.23.5.  Ubuntu does sound a little better but the difference was not as much as you reported with Roon End point.

I use Ubuntu 22.04 Server to compare with Raspberry Bookworm, not Ubuntu 23.10.  Maybe you can try.