Re: [LAU] fst, wine, Kontakt5 ... still no joy

From: Robin Gareus <robin@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Mon Dec 19 2011 - 01:48:18 EET

On 12/18/2011 10:51 PM, Csillag Kristof wrote:
> Hi,
>
> (Sorry for the cross-posting.)

(Sorry, I'm not subscribed to wine-users)

> After manually installing the 32-bit libjack packages on my 64-bit system,
> the original problem ("Can't connect to JACK") is gone; now I get a
> whole new set of errors instead :)
>
> When I try to start the Kontakt 5 VST from festige (via fst, via WINE),
> this is what I get:
>
> ============================
> ----------------yo... lets see...
> "/home/pianist/win.write/vst/"
> Cannot lock down 68157440 byte memory area (Cannot allocate memory)

You can try to start jackd with `--no-mlock` option or configure memory
locking in /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf - but that probably won't
help because - as you said yourself:

> Cannot lock down 4196401152 byte memory area (Cannot allocate memory)

4GBytes is more than a 32bit process can handle.

OTOH it's not too unusual to for a synth to load all samples into memory
and it may try to do just that for whatever reason (maybe wine is
wrongly reporting that you have enough memory).

It may also be that native-instruments uses some windows specials in
Kontakt that are not available in wine:
> fixme:win:RegisterDeviceNotificationW..
> returns a fake device notification handle!
is in support of that theory.

Or maybe some 32/64bit compatibility issue with wine itself.. or maybe
the plugin you're loading is 64bit only. Sorry I can't help you there.
just guesses.

> Sample Rate = 2890137600.00
> Block Size = 67108864

Wow. That's a mother of an audio interface :) maybe you can override
those with command-line options? - either it's related to the 'fake
device' ..or some 32bit number is interpreted as 64bit.

Do you know of someone who succeeded to run Kontakt 5 in wine?

An alternative approach would be to run Kontakt on a windows or OSX box
where you can get official support from NI and use net-jack to connect
it to your linux-box.

NTL, if you manage to get Kontakt running under GNU/Linux 32/64bit, you
would make quite a few people besides you happy.

Cheers!
robin

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