How can i install step mania?

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Sorry, that dident work!
:/

As far as i remember, i just downloaded stepmania package and extracted it into the opt folder, changing permissions and created a symlink to my songs folder (the one i use with DWI under windows) but i didn't used it too much, it demands a lot of computer resources if you don't have a real AGP or better video card...

...What?

Download the linux binary version (it should have an tar.gz extension).

Double click the archive, archive manager should appear. Extract it to let's say desktop.

You should be able to run it by again simply double-clicking on the "stepmania" file inside the extracted folder.

it wont work...
Im relly new at this...

sorry!
:)

But i extracted it and down;

sorry, im babysitting and the baby got on my laptop...

...and downloaded it in binary and clicked it and tryed to click the logo thats just a dimond...
Its not the step mania logo....
:(

Help!!

No problem :)

After double clicking the downloaded file click extract, select Desktop if it's not already selected and click extract in the lower right corner. (After that you may close the archive manager and also delete the downloaded file.)

There should be a new folder on your desktop. Enter it by double clicking. And double click on the stepmania (with a diamond yes).

If this fails, there are some things to help, but somewhat complex.

ok, then it i guess failed...
:(

I guess i could try the complex thing!
:)

haha, i change the diamond logo into the ipod touch logo!
:P

Sorry, i was exploring!
:)

Open terminal: Accessories-->Terminal.

Change directory to stepmania (you can copy & paste this into terminal):
cd Desktop/StepMania-3.9/

Try to run stepmania from terminal:
./stepmania

And tell me what it returned (again best copy & paste the other way).

StepMania 3.9
Log starting 2007-09-23 15:04:48
Loading window: gtk
OS: Linux ver 020620
Crash backtrace component: x86 custom backtrace
Crash lookup component: dladdr
Crash demangle component: cxa_demangle
Runtime library: glibc 2.5
Threads library: NPTL 2.5
TLS is available
ALSA: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14rc1 (Tue Jan 09 09:56:17 2007 UTC).
ALSA Driver: 0: ATI IXP [IXP], device 0: ATI IXP AC97 [ATI IXP AC97], 0/1 subdevices avail
ALSA Driver: 1: ATI IXP Modem [Modem], device 0: ATI IXP MC97 [ATI IXP MC97], 1/1 subdevices avail
Couldn't load driver ALSA: dsnd_pcm_open(hw:0): Device or resource busy
Mixing 0.000000 ahead in 0 Mix() calls
Couldn't load driver ALSA-sw: dsnd_pcm_open(hw:0): Device or resource busy
Mixing 0.000000 ahead in 0 Mix() calls
Couldn't load driver OSS: RageSound_OSS: Couldn't open /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
Language: english
Theme: default
Error: Couldn't find a sound driver that works

Here, i dont know what this relly means but does my sound card or somthing like that fail?

Thanks!

Try stopping all sound programs (music players etc.). If this doesn't help and your desktop manager is KDE (many things begin with K) then you may have to stop the KDE sound server. Type in terminal:
killall artsd

I mean quit all sound programs. And i've noticed this doesn't necessarily be kde, on my gnome artsd is also running. So just try stopping.

OMG!!!!

THE SPLASH ART CAME UP AND THE SCREEN WENT BLACK FOR 1 SECOND!

But then dident do anything...

Still, i know we are going some ware with this!
:)

Ok, maybe my way of getting rid of this sound server wasn't a bit too brutal :) My setting is a bit different so can't test it properly.

You should be able to just restart and everything should get back to how it was before. We were just stopping one or more processes, nothing really uncommon.

A more civilized way to do the same thing is to go to System-->Administration-->Services and disable artsd.

After stopping this sound server, try running stepmania again from terminal and show me what it outputs.

i dont have a artsd..........

Is that bad?

well, i did the start up thing any ways and this is what it sayed:

StepMania 3.9
Log starting 2007-09-23 16:01:15
Loading window: gtk
OS: Linux ver 020620
Crash backtrace component: x86 custom backtrace
Crash lookup component: dladdr
Crash demangle component: cxa_demangle
Runtime library: glibc 2.5
Threads library: NPTL 2.5
TLS is available
ALSA: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14rc1 (Tue Jan 09 09:56:17 2007 UTC).
ALSA Driver: 0: ATI IXP [IXP], device 0: ATI IXP AC97 [ATI IXP AC97], 0/1 subdevices avail
ALSA Driver: 1: ATI IXP Modem [Modem], device 0: ATI IXP MC97 [ATI IXP MC97], 1/1 subdevices avail
Couldn't load driver ALSA: dsnd_pcm_open(hw:0): Device or resource busy
Mixing 0.000000 ahead in 0 Mix() calls
Couldn't load driver ALSA-sw: dsnd_pcm_open(hw:0): Device or resource busy
Mixing 0.000000 ahead in 0 Mix() calls
Couldn't load driver OSS: RageSound_OSS: Couldn't open /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
Language: english
Theme: default
Error: Couldn't find a sound driver that works

Hmm, first try:
ps -ef | grep artsd
If this returns a line with artsd, then it's still running. You are under kde, right?

Maybe you use pulseaudio? If so you'll have to disable it.

Go to System-->Preferences-->Sound and disable anything you can there.

All this is because stepmania would like to have an exclusive access to your sound card.

You can go another way, and force it to use software playback:
artsdsp ./stepmania

With artsd enabled this time. But this may not work as well as giving it what it wants.

haha, you made it funny!
:P

BUT, the message said, it only works for binary...
Uh... it is.. right?

...Not to be rude or anything, but why does it take so long for you to reply?

Sorry, i got lost a bit, what message are you referring to?

I'm doing quite a few things concurrently :)

The:

"All this is because stepmania would like to have an exclusive access to your sound card.

You can go another way, and force it to use software playback:
artsdsp ./stepmania

With artsd enabled this time. But this may not work as well as giving it what it wants."

Ah got me a while to get what you mean, You need to be in stepmania directory:
cd ~/Desktop/StepMania-3.9/
artsdsp ./stepmania

This is what it sayed:

StepMania 3.9
Log starting 2007-09-23 16:54:23
Loading window: gtk
OS: Linux ver 020620
Crash backtrace component: x86 custom backtrace
Crash lookup component: dladdr
Crash demangle component: cxa_demangle
Runtime library: glibc 2.5
Threads library: NPTL 2.5
TLS is available
ALSA: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14rc1 (Tue Jan 09 09:56:17 2007 UTC).
ALSA Driver: 0: ATI IXP [IXP], device 0: ATI IXP AC97 [ATI IXP AC97], 0/1 subdevices avail
ALSA Driver: 1: ATI IXP Modem [Modem], device 0: ATI IXP MC97 [ATI IXP MC97], 1/1 subdevices avail
Couldn't load driver ALSA: dsnd_pcm_open(hw:0): Device or resource busy
Mixing 0.000000 ahead in 0 Mix() calls
Couldn't load driver ALSA-sw: dsnd_pcm_open(hw:0): Device or resource busy
Creating link /home/jared/.kde/socket-Jareds.
can't create mcop directory

This might be a bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/arts/+bug/55973, if so i won't be able to help.

But you still didn't answer me if you are under kde (kubuntu's default), or gnome (ubuntu's default), or maybe xfce -- (xubuntu's default)?

It fails on creating a directory, you may try creating the directory for it:
mkdir /tmp/ksocket-jared

....What?

...I dont know, im sad, that i cant play it..
:(

Thanks for helping, it sayed it cant make a directory
and still cant be played...

If it said "mkdir: cannot create directory `/tmp/ksocket-jared': File exists" it's ok no need to create the directory it's already there.

Even if we can't use artsd to make it work (thanks to this bug or not), still we should be able provide it with exclusive card access. Have you tried disabling ESD in System-->Preferences-->Sound on the Sounds tab?

There are still some tricks to try. Yesterday i've been helping someone else to get stepmania working and it worked without any trouble. We may come back to this at later time if you wish.

i typed it twice and on the second time i typed it it said that!

Is that good?

....Well, i disabled the ESD and it still dosent work!!
:(

More tricks please!

It can't create same same directory twice, it's ok.

I can reproduce your problem by running rhytmbox, make sure you quit all such things.

Try restarting and just after that open terminal and type:
cd Desktop/Stepmania-3.9
./stepmania
(Same as before.)

If this doesn't work could you please maximize the terminal window, type "ps -ef" and paste the output here?

StepMania 3.9
Log starting 2007-09-23 21:28:46
Loading window: gtk
OS: Linux ver 020620
Crash backtrace component: x86 custom backtrace
Crash lookup component: dladdr
Crash demangle component: cxa_demangle
Runtime library: glibc 2.5
Threads library: NPTL 2.5
TLS is available
ALSA: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14rc1 (Tue Jan 09 09:56:17 2007 UTC).
ALSA Driver: 0: ATI IXP [IXP], device 0: ATI IXP AC97 [ATI IXP AC97], 1/1 subdevices avail
ALSA Driver: 1: ATI IXP Modem [Modem], device 0: ATI IXP MC97 [ATI IXP MC97], 1/1 subdevices avail
Couldn't load driver ALSA: Not enough substreams for hardware mixing, using software mixing
ALSA: Software mixing at 48000hz
Sound driver: ALSA-sw

(stepmania:5392): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_style_detach: assertion `style->attach_count > 0' failed
Video renderers: 'opengl'
SDL version: 1.2.11
Got 24 bpp (8880), 16 depth, 0 stencil
OGL Vendor: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org
OGL Renderer: Mesa GLX Indirect
OGL Version: 1.4 (1.5 Mesa 6.5.2)
OGL Extensions: GL_ARB_depth_texture GL_ARB_draw_buffers GL_ARB_fragment_program GL_ARB_imaging GL_ARB_multisample GL_ARB_multitexture GL_ARB_occlusion_query GL_ARB_point_parameters GL_ARB_point_sprite GL_ARB_shadow GL_ARB_shadow_ambient GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp GL_ARB_texture_compression GL_ARB_texture_cube_map GL_ARB_texture_env_add GL_ARB_texture_env_combine GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3 GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_ARB_texture_non_power_of_two GL_ARB_texture_rectangle GL_ARB_transpose_matrix GL_ARB_vertex_program GL_ARB_window_pos GL_EXT_abgr GL_EXT_bgra GL_EXT_blend_color GL_EXT_blend_equation_separate GL_EXT_blend_func_separate GL_EXT_blend_logic_op GL_EXT_blend_minmax GL_EXT_blend_subtract GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint GL_EXT_copy_texture GL_EXT_draw_range_elements GL_EXT_fog_coord GL_EXT_framebuffer_object GL_EXT_multi_draw_arrays GL_EXT_packed_pixels GL_EXT_paletted_texture GL_EXT_point_parameters GL_EXT_polygon_offset GL_EXT_rescale_normal GL_EXT_secondary_color GL_EXT_separate_specular_color GL_EXT_shadow_funcs GL_EXT_shared_texture_palette GL_EXT_stencil_wrap GL_EXT_subtexture GL_EXT_texture GL_EXT_texture3D GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp GL_EXT_texture_env_add GL_EXT_texture_env_combine GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3 GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp GL_EXT_texture_object GL_EXT_texture_rectangle GL_EXT_vertex_array GL_APPLE_packed_pixels GL_ATI_draw_buffers GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3 GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once GL_ATIX_texture_env_combine3 GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat GL_INGR_blend_func_separate GL_MESA_pack_invert GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture GL_NV_blend_square GL_NV_fragment_program GL_NV_light_max_exponent GL_NV_point_sprite GL_NV_texgen_reflection GL_NV_texture_rectangle GL_NV_vertex_program GL_NV_vertex_program1_1 GL_SGI_color_matrix GL_SGI_color_table GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp GL_SGIS_texture_lod GL_SGIX_depth_texture GL_SGIX_shadow GL_SGIX_shadow_ambient GL_SUN_multi_draw_arrays
OGL Max texture size: 2048
GLU Version: 1.3
Display: :0.0 (screen 0)
Direct rendering: no
X server vendor: The X.Org Foundation [7.2.0.0]
Server GLX vendor: SGI [1.2]
Client GLX vendor: SGI [1.4]
Mixing 469.258117 ahead in 1232 Mix() calls
Language: english
Current renderer: OpenGL
Theme: default
Error: There was an error while initializing your video card.

   PLEASE DO NOT FILE THIS ERROR AS A BUG!

Video Driver: OpenGL

Initializing OpenGL...
Your system is reporting that direct rendering is not available. Please obtain an updated driver from your video card manufacturer.

Uh....
What does this mean?????
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!

ITS WORKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you sooooo much!!!

Thanks Wrwrwr, that solved my question.

I'm using the newest Ubuntu, Hardy Heron and I have a 64 bit system. I installed StepMania with these debs: http://ppa.launchpad.net/rzr/ubuntu/pool/main/s/stepmania4/.

Everything else work perfectly, but sounds doesn't work. Here's the command line result:

sonja@sonlap:~$ stepmania4
StepMania CVS 4.0 CVS
Compiled Sun Apr 20 14:05:26 UTC 2008 (build 0)
Log starting 2008-05-10 21:51:04
Loading window: gtk
OS: Linux ver 020624
Crash backtrace component: x86 custom backtrace
Crash lookup component: dladdr
Crash demangle component: cxa_demangle
Runtime library: glibc 2.7
Threads library: NPTL 2.7
libavcodec: 0x332600 (3352064)
TLS is available
ALSA: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.16.
ALSA Driver: 0: HDA ATI SB [SB], device 0: ALC268 Analog [ALC268 Analog], 0/1 subdevices avail
Couldn't load driver ALSA-sw: dsnd_pcm_open(hw:0): Device or resource busy
Couldn't load driver OSS: RageSoundDriver_OSS: Couldn't open /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
Sound driver: Null
Lights driver: SystemMessage
Lights driver: Export
/////////////////////////////////////////
WARNING: Error opening "/sys/block/sr0/device/../idVendor": No such file or directory
/////////////////////////////////////////
/////////////////////////////////////////
WARNING: Error opening "/sys/block/sr0/device/../idProduct": No such file or directory
/////////////////////////////////////////
/////////////////////////////////////////
WARNING: Error opening "/sys/block/sr0/device/../serial": No such file or directory
/////////////////////////////////////////
/////////////////////////////////////////
WARNING: Error opening "/sys/block/sr0/device/../product": No such file or directory
/////////////////////////////////////////
/////////////////////////////////////////
WARNING: Error opening "/sys/block/sr0/device/../manufacturer": No such file or directory
/////////////////////////////////////////
/////////////////////////////////////////
WARNING: Error opening "/sys/block/sdb/device/../idVendor": No such file or directory
/////////////////////////////////////////
/////////////////////////////////////////
WARNING: Error opening "/sys/block/sdb/device/../idProduct": No such file or directory
/////////////////////////////////////////
/////////////////////////////////////////
WARNING: Error opening "/sys/block/sdb/device/../serial": No such file or directory
/////////////////////////////////////////
/////////////////////////////////////////
WARNING: Error opening "/sys/block/sdb/device/../product": No such file or directory
/////////////////////////////////////////
/////////////////////////////////////////
WARNING: Error opening "/sys/block/sdb/device/../manufacturer": No such file or directory
/////////////////////////////////////////

(stepmania4:8541): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_style_detach: assertion `style->attach_count > 0' failed

<and something about glx and screen, I don't paste it here>

Hi, that's my PPA
sounds works for me on x86 if it maters but I havent tested much