[fedora-astronomy] gnuradio in Fedora

[Marek Mahut]

Lamar,

Lamar Owen wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Marek Mahut wrote:
>> Hello Lamar,
>>
>> Lamar Owen wrote:
>>> On Sunday 23 March 2008, Marek Mahut wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> We have finally gnuradio in Fedora [1]. Is there anyone who can test it
>>>> with USRP? An update is pending also for Fedora 8 [2]...
>>> I can, once I get back to work after being sick.
>> Thanks and get well soon!
> 
> USRP with the above version works, but you have to be root to use it.  
> Non-root user doesn't get sufficient permissions to open the USRP.  I got 
> lots of audio underruns and an odd sampling rate when using the wideband fm 
> receiver example program, and the audio was the wrong speed; but I got audio 
> (this laptop has one of the notoriously difficult intel HDA setups).
> 
> Output:
> [root at localhost usrp]# usrp_print_db.py
> RX d'board A: Basic Rx
> RX d'board B: TV Rx
> TX d'board A: Basic Tx
> TX d'board B: <none>
> [root at localhost usrp]#   

Thanks, good to know. Let me know if you hit another other issues using 
this package. I'm trying to get one usrp for myself for a couple of 
weeks for testing, but it's not easy. :)

Regards,

-- 
Marek Mahut               https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Astronomy/
Fedora Project                                   http://www.jamendo.com/

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