On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 10:15 -0800, michael higgins wrote: > On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:30:10 -0600 > Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I emerged rosegarden the other day. When it starts up it tells me that > > the MIDI sequencer could not be started. I've been working with the > > rosegarden-user mailing list to work through this problem. They had me > > send them some debug information and now they tell me that the problem > > is with my snd-seq-midi module. I use alsa-driver because I couldn't > > get my sound card to work with alsa compiled into the kernel. They've > > never heard of alsa-driver. They recommended that I take this new > > development to you. How can I get alsa-driver to give me a working > > snd-seq-midi module? My /etc/modules.d/alsa is thus: > > > > camille ~ # cat /etc/modules.d/alsa > > #------------------------------ > > alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss > > alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss > > alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss > > > > # Set this to the correct number of cards. > > # --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- > > # --- ALSACONF version 1.0.10rc2 --- > > alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel > > alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel > > # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- > > > > options snd-hda-intel model=3stack position_fix=2 > > #------------------------------- > > > > I'll be happy to send any other information you need to help me solve > > this problem... > > > > > 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. > > * media-libs/alsa-oss > Available versions: 1.0.8-r1 ~1.0.9 1.0.10_rc2 1.0.10_rc3 ~1.0.10 > Installed: none > Homepage: http://www.alsa-project.org/ > Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture OSS compatibility > layer. > > Do you have this installed? Again, just a guess. > > HTH. > > -- > |\ /| | | ~ ~ > | \/ | |---| `|` ? > | |ichael | |iggins \^ / > michael.higgins[at]evolone[dot]org
I didn't have it installed. Now I do: * media-libs/alsa-oss Latest version available: 1.0.10-r1 Latest version installed: 1.0.10-r1 Size of downloaded files: 218 kB Homepage: http://www.alsa-project.org/ Description: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture OSS compatibility layer. License: GPL-2 I restarted alsasound and attempted to start rosegarden and the MIDI sequencer still failed.... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list