iTunes 4.0 Forum

Hi,

while trying to install iTunes I get only a black screen, that stayes for ages, but nothing happens.

Setup always failes, I've tried it a couple of times.

Anybody some suggestion?

BR;
MaC

What are you installing it on (Window Manger/Desktop, Kernel version, Distro...)?

What version of CXO? (4.0, 4.1...)

What version of iTunes? Is it 4.6? or have you downloaded 4.7 for the iTMS compatability? (Apple recently changed some stuff to iTMS and 4.6 and earlier won't work anymore with iTMS and DRM'd files).

I was able to get around the "Black screen" problems by moving my ~/.cxoffice directory out of the way, and starting over. It's a horrible solution, since you lose everything else you've already installed, but it works.

This can often be caused by having a native oleaut32 DLL installed, without the rest of DCOM. Removing it from ~/.cxoffice/dotwine/fake_windows/Windows/System/ or installing DCOM should solve the problem for you.

Automated DCOM95 installation failes for me, the URL given by cxsetup redirects me to a download page, where I can grab DCOM95 or DCOM98, so what version do I pick?

THX;
MaC

Deleting the oleaut32 DLL solved it for me, install works just fine. Yet sound quality is somewhat bad :(

I followed the faq, and made it work on I8x0, with alsadrv, BUT it can't keep the playrate constant, sometimes it just speeds up or slows down. I'm having a echo too :(

BR;
MaC

I'm sorry to hear about your sound problems. We are trying our best to make sound work well on all sound chipsets, but we keep running up against Linux kernel bugs. Unfortunately, the i8x0 chipsets have less features than most other chipsets, so more work has to be done by both us and the kernel to get the sound to output in a compatible format.
We'll keep working at it, but the best solution at the moment is to try another chipset.

Well thx for your reply, and belive me I would if I could, but how am I supposed to put a new chipset into a laptop?!?!

BTW. I've tried to install iTunes on my normal (FC3_x86_64, Audigy2) desktop, on that pc iTunes crashes whenever I try to navigate to /mnt ☹️
Anybody seen this bug before? Its odd.

Thx 4 you support,

MaC

I've got an i810 in my laptop, and I've got iTunes working.

The sound FAQ over on the support site has tips and tricks
that really help; the biggest one is shifting iTunes
(via the Quicktime control panel, afair) over to use
'waveout' for sound.

Cheers,

Jer