Ardour crashes under new Kubuntu 24.10

Use WineHQ’s repo, then you can downgrade:

EDIT: Ah, you said only for older versions! Is it possible to force to use an old one on your current anyway?

If you are on Debian or Ubuntu, then use WineASIO from the KXStudio repo:

I haven’t checked AV Linux or other multimedia-centered distros, but I would be surprised if those distros do not have a working WineASIO (and Wine Staging and so on?).

I have used Superior Drummer version 2 and now 3 and the wonderful JX-8P emulator PG8X for years without problems and glitches. My current system is Kubuntu 22.04 with wine-8.2 (Staging and version pinned). I know several later versions of wine-8.2 staging are working but I don’t care, peace of mind and a reliable workflow are my first priority.

I’m planning to use Kubuntu 24 on a new PC and Laptop this or next year. It will probably be some tweaking and adjustments to make it work, but when it does, I lock the Wine version and will probably not look back, no matter if a new working Wine version is coming - well, maybe if Melodyne works with WIne.

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Thank you. I will try.

I was able to install older versions of winehq in ubuntu 24.10 using winehq mantic (ubuntu 23.10) repositories…

I have tried winehq-staging 8.12, 9.02, 9.12, 9.14, 9.19 and 9.20… Allways same problem. So winehq version its not the (only) problem.

@josander I have no tried to “reregister wineasio”. I will try it this night… althought i tried to remove “.wine” folder and make a wine clean installation without success.

On the other hand yabridge 5.10 (current version) was compiled in Dec 2023… I dont know if could be incompatibilites with another Ubuntu 24.10 libraries… Im thinking to try to compile the yabridge app in my own computer.

@skygge if u want to try older winehq versions with apt u must specify all the dependencies downgraded version.

For example:
sudo apt-get install winehq-staging=9.16~noble-1 wine-staging=9.16~noble-1 wine-staging-amd64=9.16~noble-1 wine-staging-i386=9.16~noble-1

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If downgrading doesn’t work for you, then I won’t even try. I know the result :wink:
I had lower wine version which survived the system upgrade and it stopped working after that.

This is done with:
regsvr32 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/wine/wineasio.dll
wine64 regsvr32 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/wine/wineasio.dll

That said, I’m not sure that not registering wineasio.dll will make anything crash. On my systems, it only makes Wine dependent programs and plugins quiet.

Ok… I have repaired it in my computer. I must check the performance… but i have been able to run ezdrummer3 inside ardour…

I was reading the yabridge documentation and the Yabridge binary was compiled in a Ubuntu 20.04… with wine 7.2 header libs? there are really old versions…

So… i compile a yabridge in my own computer (ubuntu 24.10 and winehq 9.20 staging) and all seems to works… (but i need to make more tests). In this first moment ardour seems goes slow when try to scan several vst3 plugins… Perhaps i need to compile yabridge with any permormance option.

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I can confirm this. Yabridge compiled from sources works. Thank you!

And what about pango? For now I have to copy these libs from demo version to my self-compiled Ardour lib dir to make it work.

@skygge I have no problems with cairo libraries. I uses ubuntu, not kubuntu. Perhaps libcairo is differente in both “flavors”?

Oh, we have another difference too. I’m using ubuntu ardour package. 2.8.6. I have not compiled ardour myself. Perhaps binary ardour version has not problems with libcairo?

In my case Ardour installed from system repo is

$ aptitude versions ardour
Package ardour:
i 1:8.6.0+ds-1

It does not work.

It’s about PANGO, not CAIRO, sorrrrryyyy…

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Same that me

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For the record, that 2.8.6 nearly made me do a spit take.

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