I have installed Xenial Dog (32bit) to an ntfs partition on one hdd on an old HP desktop. I also have three pups on this partition all frugal installs. I also have Ubuntu installed on an ext4 partition on a separate hdd, full install, and am booting from this one with grub2. I've gone through all the problems already mentioned in booting the pups the the dog with grub2 but all are now working. I'm more used to grub4dos. Also had problems with frisbee but changed to wicd and it works fine. I have gqrx, which is a software defined radio application, installed and working on Ubuntu but I cannot get it to work in Xenial Dog. I have tried two installation methods.
1. I've used the package manager. This was easy and all seemed to go well but it does not load from it's menu entry. I get this output if I run it in a terminal.
Code: Select all
root@xenial:~# gqrx
linux; GNU C++ version 5.3.1 20151219; Boost_105800; UHD_003.009.002-0-unknown
Controlport disabled
No user supplied config file. Using "default.conf"
gr-osmosdr 0.1.4 (0.1.4) gnuradio 3.7.9
built-in source types: file osmosdr fcd rtl rtl_tcp uhd miri hackrf bladerf rfspace airspy redpitaya
Using Volk machine: sse2_32_mmx_orc
FM demod gain: 1.52789
IQ DCR alpha: 1.04166e-05
/build/gqrx-sdr-3kG_Pj/gqrx-sdr-2.5.1/src/pulseaudio/pa_sink.cc: pa_simple_new() failed: Connection refused
Using audio backend: N/A
New filter offset: 0 Hz
BookmarksFile is /root/.config/gqrx/bookmarks.csv
Loading configuration from: "default.conf"
Configuration file: "/root/.config/gqrx/default.conf"
Crash guard triggered!
Code: Select all
Launching I/O device editor
firstTimeConfig
CIoConfig : Available input devices:
0 : "Realtek RTL2838UHIDIR SN: 00000001"
1 : "RFSPACE SDR-IQ Receiver"
2 : "RFSPACE SDR-IP Receiver"
3 : "RFSPACE NetSDR Receiver"
4 : "RFSPACE Cloud-IQ Receiver"
5 : "RTL-SDR Spectrum Server"
6 : "Red Pitaya Transceiver Server"
7 : "Complex Sampled (IQ) File"
2. This second method is the one I used to install in Ubuntu. The instructions are here.
http://gqrx.dk/download/install-ubuntu
However, I have to install these repositories first then update.
Code: Select all
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:bladerf/bladerf
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ettusresearch/uhd
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:myriadrf/drivers
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:myriadrf/gnuradio
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:gqrx/gqrx-sdr
sudo apt-get update
Code: Select all
root@xenial:~# add-apt-repository -y ppa:bladerf/bladerf
Utility to add Ubuntu PPA in your Debian machine
usage: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:user/ppa-name [ubuntu_release]
e.g.: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rvm/smplayer trusty
If no Ubuntu release is given, the default will be 'xenial'
root@xenial:~#
Regards,
Ken.