Alsaequal

[Lurk]

Hi Guys
I would like to get an equalizer working on RuneAudio -I found this topic but I cant get it to install
it fails at 5 the makepkg stage, either it can't find the file as testuser or wont run because of lack of privileges - I tried root access but that fails too

tutorial-install-alsa-equal-t3178.html#p11556

can anyone suggest any way forward or maybe even another solution ?

I'm a bit of a noob so I may have missed something obvious

Tx
Lx

[Lurk]

still struggling with this - I get this error even though PKGBUILD does exist (I can see it in my CyberDuck SFTP prog)

[testuser@runeaudio2 ~]$ makepkg
==> ERROR: PKGBUILD does not exist.

anyone any ideas?

Lx

[hondagx35]

Hi Luk,

you have to change the active directory first.

For example your downloaded and extracted alsaeq is in:
/home/testuser/alsaequal-0.x.x......
then you have to use

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cd /home/testuser/alsaequal-0.x.x.....

to switch to that drectory.

Frank

[Lurk]

hi Frank
yes I tried that, now I get
ERROR: alsaequal is not available for the 'armv7h' architecture

any ideas?
Lx

[hondagx35]

Hi,

you have to edit the PKGBUILD file and add "armv7h".

Frank

[Lurk]

yep done that - at least I think I have done it right - I changed ....

pkgdesc='Real-time adjustable equalizer plugin for ALSA sound server'
url='http://www.thedigitalmachine.net/alsaequal.html'
license=('GPL2')
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')

to

pkgdesc='Real-time adjustable equalizer plugin for ALSA sound server'
url='http://www.thedigitalmachine.net/alsaequal.html'
license=('GPL2')
arch=('arm7h')

is that correct ?

Thanks for your help with this Frank
Lx

[hondagx35]

pkgdesc='Real-time adjustable equalizer plugin for ALSA sound server'
url='http://www.thedigitalmachine.net/alsaequal.html'
license=('GPL2')
arch=('arm7h')

you have to edit the PKGBUILD file and add "armv7h".

[Lurk]

Ah there is a "v" that is not mentioned in the Tutorial - is it a typo in the tutorial ?

it says...
4. Now log in as your new user and extract the package you downloaded.
Edit the PKGBUILD and change the arch= to arch=('arm7h')

Ill give it another go and report back

Lx

[Lurk]

Just to report back - after much fiddling about I got something that looked like an equaliser displayed in Terminal - I could move the bars up and down but it didn't alter the sound at all
I figured that it maybe was not applying the equalization to the DAC output and tried to fix it by altering the value where it says

pcm.plugequal {
type equal;
slave.pcm "plughw:1,0"; #adjust to match your alsa device you want equalized
}

but this has just broken the system completely and I'm not able to recover it

hey ho I have had fun fiddling and maybe learned some stuff but to be honest the guide has some errors and assumes a level of knowledge that I don't possess

would be really great to see an equaliser built into Runeaudio - hope the devs have not given up on the idea

Lx