Subject: timidity: Difficult to set up Timidity to work with PulseAudio.
Package: timidity
Version: 2.13.2-37
Severity: normal

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Dear Debian hackers,


I am running PulseAudio and I am getting the following error message.

        $ LANG=C sudo -u timidity timidity -Os -iA
        No protocol specified
        XOpenDisplay() failed
        Home directory /home/joe not ours.
        W: core-util.c: Failed to open configuration file 
'/home/joe/.pulse//daemon.conf': Permission denied
        W: daemon-conf.c: Failed to open configuration file: Permission denied
        ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: 
Connection refused
        
        Can't open pcm device 'default'.
        Couldn't open ALSA pcm device (`s')

The solution is written down in `README.Debian` and [1] I guess. But
this in my opinion very cumbersome.

What are possible solution to this?

1. Check for PulseAudio during install time and have a Debconf dialog to
ask for the configuration?
2. Fix Timidity upstream to support and detect PulseAudio natively?
3. …


Thanks,

Paul


[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/timidity/+bug/210472

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages timidity depends on:
ii  libasound2              1.0.21a-1        shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libaudio2               1.9.2-3          Network Audio System - shared libr
ii  libc6                   2.10.2-2         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libesd0                 0.2.41-6         Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libflac8                1.2.1-2+b1       Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii  libice6                 2:1.0.6-1        X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjack0                0.118+svn3796-1  JACK Audio Connection Kit (librari
ii  libncurses5             5.7+20090803-2   shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libogg0                 1.1.4~dfsg-2     Ogg bitstream library
ii  libpng12-0              1.2.41-1         PNG library - runtime
ii  libsm6                  2:1.1.1-1        X11 Session Management library
ii  libvorbis0a             1.2.3-3          The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisenc2           1.2.3-3          The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libx11-6                2:1.3.2-1        X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                 2:1.0.7-1        X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxext6                2:1.0.4-1        X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxmu6                 2:1.0.5-1        X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxt6                  1:1.0.7-1        X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  lsb-base                3.2-23           Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages timidity recommends:
ii  freepats                      20060219-1 Free patch set for MIDI audio synt
ii  timidity-daemon               2.13.2-37  runs TiMidity++ as a system-wide M

Versions of packages timidity suggests:
pn  fluid-soundfont-gm            <none>     (no description available)
pn  fluid-soundfont-gs            <none>     (no description available)
pn  pmidi                         <none>     (no description available)

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