Stereo Tool

I'm moving my small LPFM radio from Windows to Linux. I'm relatively new to Linux. I got Linux installed, Rivendell and Jack running. I now want to see how it works with Stereo Tool but for the life of me can't or don't know how to install it. I'm running Rivendell on Mint 17 32 bit as the packages wern't there to install Rivendell on Mint 18. From the Stereo Tool site I downloaded stand alone 32bit stereo_tool_gui. So what am I do to with this file? I read somewhere Jack need to be installed and running. It is as it runs with the installation of Rivendell. I will much appreciate any help I can get. Thank you.

Open an xterm window, go to the directory where stereo_tool_gui is installed, and type ./stereo_tool_gui

That should start it.

Hi

Can't get v8 to work too... tested on 2 different computers, debian/fedora... V7 work fine

With v8, something launch, stereotool is there in jackctl connection bay... but no gui, just a buggy window

no error in the term:

[jlorente@localhost Téléchargements]$ ./stereo_tool_gui_64 
jack_client_new: deprecated
Cannot lock down 107335194 byte memory area (Cannot allocate memory)
Thimeo Stereo Tool 8.00 (for Linux with Jack) (C) Hans van Zutphen, 2001-2015
Jack buffer granularity: 1024 samples
Activating Jack c1b1dd0
Cannot use real-time scheduling (RR/15)(1: Operation not permitted)
JackClient::AcquireSelfRealTime error
Jack connection opened
JACK: Closing
Jack buffer granularity: 1024 samples
Activating Jack c1b1dd0
Cannot use real-time scheduling (RR/15)(1: Operation not permitted)
JackClient::AcquireSelfRealTime error
Jack connection opened
Jack buffer starving
Jack buffer starving

thx for your great work

I'll have to test that configuration I suppose.. So do you see a window or not? (What is a 'buggy window'?).

In version 8.00 I finally got rid of the wxWidgets library (which is causing lots of instability on Mac OS X), and replaced it by a native GUI. But, I could very well have a bug in it.

There is another Linux bug in 8.00 that's causing a high CPU load on - most likely - the GUI thread, I need to look into that soon anyway, I should check this one too... Which are the exact versions of Debian and Fedora that you tried?

Tested on Fedora 24 and Debian Jessie fresh install.

here are some screenshots of the "buggy window" (fedora 24):

Looks like it never gets a draw event. Will install Fedora now in VMware to test.

Ok, found & fixed it. I was creating the window with parameters from the .rc file. But if there was no .rc file, they were all set to -1000 (which means ignore them). However, in the XLib interface I used them when creating a window - and Ubuntu ignored them, Fedora transforms -1000 to 64536, which makes it create a window of 64536x64536 pixels... which was causing some issues

Cool! hope to see a new version with other gui perf fix soon

thx again!