Fedora Multimedia Workstation

My default Fedora 10 install packages plus ccrma repos and meta package/kernel for low latency audio workstation with windows vsti's. With this setup I can run an alesis trigger io and trigger samples in XLN Audio Addictive Drums without having to run windows, plus I get SUPER low latency with low cost sound cards (even onboard is below 3ms), currently running a turtle beach riviera on an old Pentium 4 and getting 1.6ms

# setup yum repos
sudo rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm \
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm \
http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm \
http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

# install apps
sudo yum -y install bash-completion nautilus-open-terminal gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg k3b-extras-freeworld lame easytag mplayer gnome-mplayer gecko-mediaplayer mencoder libdvdcss flash-plugin AdobeReader_enu clusterssh compat-libstdc++-33 gcc wine wine-devel grip unrar vnc

# 64-bit flash support
yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper.x86_64 nspluginwrapper.i386 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i386 libcurl.i386

# nvidia driver
sudo yum -y install akmod-nvidia

# ati driver
sudo yum -y install akmod-fglrx

# ccrma repos add extra audio workstation tools and includes the low latency kernel
sudo rpm -Uvh http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/planetccrma/10/i386/planetccrma-repo-1.1-2.fc10.ccrma.noarch.rpm

# meta package for all major ccrma apps, this is a LARGE compilation and will take a while to download on a slow connection! (in my case 259mb with dependencies)
sudo yum -y install planetccrma-apps

# low latency kernel, first step is to allow Fedora to keep more kernels which can be done by changing the 'installonly_limit=3' line to 'installonly_limit=0', then running the following command
sudo yum -y install planetccrma-core

# get rid of "Could not load Mozilla. HTML rendering will be disabled." when running wine
wine iexplore http://www.winehq.com

Installing projectM with amarok support on Fedora 8

I wanted projectM to work with amarok on my Fedora 8 box... I had done it before but didn't remember the exact steps...

Dependencies: projectM isn't in the standard fedora or livna repos so we have to compile, because compiling doesn't automagically install requisite software like yum does we need to have some packages pre-installed. This list is probably not complete but it's what I had to add (plus dependencies for these packages which are handled by yum):
pulseaudio-libs-devel amarok-visualisation, qt4-devel, cmake, ftgl-devel, glew-devel and subversion

# sudo yum -y install pulseaudio-libs-devel amarok-visualisation qt4-devel cmake ftgl-devel glew-devel subversion

Next we need to download projectM from sourceforge, I like to install the latest bleeding edge software since it generally causes me more pain so I chose the to go with the latest branch from subversion:

# mkdir ~/Download/projectM && cd ~/Download/projectM
# svn co https://projectm.svn.sf.net/svnroot/projectm/trunk projectM-Trunk
# cd projectM-Trunk/src
# ccmake .

cmake loads. press 'c' to configure: change CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE to 'Release' and CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to /usr/
press 'c' again to configure and g to generate makefile

Time to compile:

# make && sudo make install

Now 'projectM-pulseaudio' should be in your Applications ->Video menu (if your using gnome) and it will bump along to any sounds that are playing through pulse. If you have amarok open just restart it and you can launch it from the visualizations menu!

I can't get it to play nice with compiz on an ati card running dual monitors, but with compiz turned off it's fine.

I ripped off a bunch of this from the ubuntu forum (thanks!):
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=749793
as well as the projectM page itself:
http://projectm.wiki.sourceforge.net/Installation+Instructions