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Are there any new developement in Power SDR Software running on linux platform, i'am long time user of ubuntu and would like to run my SDR on linux system. Any suggestion.
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FlexRadio Systems provides world-class software defined radio technology for amateur and commercial markets. We are an Independent Software Vendor (ISV), leading the development of our trademarked Windows based PowerSDR software solution, recognized internationally as the most popular and functional software interface in use today with software defined radios in the amateur radio community.
The following matrix indicates the operating system compatibility with our software defined radio hardware platforms and PowerSDR.
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Bugfly (3/28/2010)
Are there any new developement in Power SDR Software running on linux platform, i'am long time user of ubuntu and would like to run my SDR on linux system. Any suggestion.
I'm sure hoping, also, that PowerSDR 2.x will eventually be ported to Linux. I have a Flex 1500 - and right now the ONLY way I can run PowerSDR on linux is via VMWare with their latest free VMPlayer.
I can run a WinXP Pro virtual machine in VMWare and use the MME drivers for the main audio AND the VAC audio too and get PSDR 2.08 running with FLDigi.
I works only fair and is fragile. IF I run anything else, either in the VM or in Linux while it is running - then I start to get audio dropouts.
Also, putting my mouse over the filter area on the panadaptor makes the mouse cursor jump around eratically - probably because the filter area is getting updated a lot more than the area outside the filter.
However, IF I don't run anything else and be careful I actually can run the 1500 and make contacts in the virtual machine running in Linux.
Perhaps if I had more memory - I only have 2gb RAM and give the VM half of that - perhaps it would not be so apt to have dropouts when I start something else.
VirtualBox, an open source native VM player does NOT work out at all. PSDR will run but the audio is terrible and unusuable for any mode. Tried a bunch of things but no luck with VirtualBox.
And, as we all know, the only real way to go is a have a completely native version of PSDR for Linux O.S. I suspect it may be a long time until that happens if ever.
Incidentally, I run Ubuntu 9.10 on the desktop and the netbook as my main O.S. Also have it on 2 other desktops too.
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| I'm a Linux user since 1999 and now use Ubuntu. In Ubuntu 10.10 and latest version of VirtualBox hosting Windows 7 I have a very stable system. Granted, my Linux workstation runs with 8GB of RAM and a dual 2TB RAID. Everything appears seamless. The only issue I have is that very occasionally when Win7 goes to screen saver, it will lose the USB port. That is, the USB port is still visible in the VirtualBox pulldown menu, but the box is no longer "x'ed" on so I have to click it back. I've worked with VMware and find it lacking in stability versus VirtualBox, so after runing a test bed system with VMWare and Virtual Box running in multiple windows each running WinXP/3 aand Win7, the VirtualBox Open Source application seems much more stable. YMMV. My next project is to run the system 24/7 on WinMore. 73's de Dave N4CVX
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N4CVX (1/19/2011)
I'm a Linux user since 1999 and now use Ubuntu. In Ubuntu 10.10 and latest version of VirtualBox hosting Windows 7 I have a very stable system. Granted, my Linux workstation runs with 8GB of RAM and a dual 2TB RAID. Everything appears seamless. The only issue I have is that very occasionally when Win7 goes to screen saver, it will lose the USB port. That is, the USB port is still visible in the VirtualBox pulldown menu, but the box is no longer "x'ed" on so I have to click it back. I've worked with VMware and find it lacking in stability versus VirtualBox, so after runing a test bed system with VMWare and Virtual Box running in multiple windows each running WinXP/3 aand Win7, the VirtualBox Open Source application seems much more stable. YMMV. My next project is to run the system 24/7 on WinMore. 73's de Dave N4CVX
I've done some more tinkering with my VirtualBox(s) and tried running PowerSDR on my Windows XP (SP3) virtual machine. Now there is no problem "forgetting" the virtual USB ports. I blew away the Windows 7 stuff and now run my digital radio apps on the WinXP VirtualBox. No problems. 
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| Hello, Someone asked about PowerSDR under Linux... I do this in VirtualBox 4.0.4 on my Dell E6510 (Core i7) running 64-bit Ubuntu-10.10 -- it works quite well. There was a minor hang-up getting the USB passthrough to work properly for me, but I just needed to be a member of the correct group with the right permissions -- after that, no problem. The performance isn't awe-inspiring, and this has mostly to do with me running 32-bit XP in a VM on a system with perhaps not the ideal amount of RAM... It wasn't really supposed to be awe-inspiring, it was just supposed to work, and it did so as intended. Cheers, N5BJL (Using a Flex-1500 -- in Linux!)
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Im trying to run my Flex 1500 in Win 7 inside Virtualbox, even though I have the usb ports enabled and the Flex shows up on the drop down box of usb options, Im not able to "X" the box to enable it, actually I cant "X" any of the usb choices, mouse, keyboard, etc, though those seem to work without being "checked". Ive been through the help topics many times but cant find a resolution. Im running VB in Kubuntu 11.4 OS. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, 73's
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OK, I have the usb issue resolved (users and groups issue discussed above) in virtualbox, now I cant get the software to recognize the radio, it will only open in demo mode, I loaded the most recent software version, followed all the setup instructions for the flex 1500, but still no luck...I wish there was more traffic here, I can see there's other out there that have run it this way successfully. Im so close... 73's
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I have a Dell Dimension 8300 with 4Gb RAM and 3.1 GHZ processor and a Flex 5KA. I recently had to rebuild my system and decided to try VMware's free VMPlayer and SDR. Unfortunately, that's when I found out that the issue is the lack of a reliable FIREWIRE driver for Linux. I know that a couple of groups are working on FW drivers for Linux, however, their present function is very limited, but does work, with some "playing", for firewire drives but don't believe that the drivers are developed enough for Flex.
Has anyone experimented with the Firewire to USB drivers and has anyone seen them available for Linux.
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