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From: Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] My Rosegarden Woes
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 18:36:53
Message-Id: 1135794699.9283.31.camel@camille.espersunited.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] My Rosegarden Woes by michael higgins
1 On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 10:15 -0800, michael higgins wrote:
2 > On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:30:10 -0600
3 > Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com> wrote:
4 >
5 > > I emerged rosegarden the other day. When it starts up it tells me that
6 > > the MIDI sequencer could not be started. I've been working with the
7 > > rosegarden-user mailing list to work through this problem. They had me
8 > > send them some debug information and now they tell me that the problem
9 > > is with my snd-seq-midi module. I use alsa-driver because I couldn't
10 > > get my sound card to work with alsa compiled into the kernel. They've
11 > > never heard of alsa-driver. They recommended that I take this new
12 > > development to you. How can I get alsa-driver to give me a working
13 > > snd-seq-midi module? My /etc/modules.d/alsa is thus:
14 > >
15 > > camille ~ # cat /etc/modules.d/alsa
16 > > #------------------------------
17 > > alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
18 > > alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
19 > > alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
20 > >
21 > > # Set this to the correct number of cards.
22 > > # --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
23 > > # --- ALSACONF version 1.0.10rc2 ---
24 > > alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
25 > > alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel
26 > > # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
27 > >
28 > > options snd-hda-intel model=3stack position_fix=2
29 > > #-------------------------------
30 > >
31 > > I'll be happy to send any other information you need to help me solve
32 > > this problem...
33 > >
34 >
35 >
36 > I've been lurking on that list as well... I have everything working, but I'm not sure about your problem. I have everything alsa compiled in my kernel. However, I think there's a package for the alsa oss stuff... have you installed that as well? I believe those modules only get loaded via modules.d/alsa when they are present.
37 >
38 > * media-libs/alsa-oss
39 > Available versions: 1.0.8-r1 ~1.0.9 1.0.10_rc2 1.0.10_rc3 ~1.0.10
40 > Installed: none
41 > Homepage: http://www.alsa-project.org/
42 > Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture OSS compatibility layer.
43 >
44 > Do you have this installed? Again, just a guess.
45 >
46 > HTH.
47 >
48 > --
49 > |\ /| | | ~ ~
50 > | \/ | |---| `|` ?
51 > | |ichael | |iggins \^ /
52 > michael.higgins[at]evolone[dot]org
53
54 I didn't have it installed. Now I do:
55
56 * media-libs/alsa-oss
57 Latest version available: 1.0.10-r1
58 Latest version installed: 1.0.10-r1
59 Size of downloaded files: 218 kB
60 Homepage: http://www.alsa-project.org/
61 Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture OSS compatibility
62 layer.
63 License: GPL-2
64
65 I restarted alsasound and attempted to start rosegarden and the MIDI
66 sequencer still failed....
67
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