Does the system produce sound (so you know sound drivers are working). If yes, does fluidsynth produce sound output if you use it to play a midi file from a to terminal (you have to provide cli options for output device, eg ALSA, and soundfont, full path).
If yes, can you start fluidsynth in server mode and, optionally, specify the name (or perhaps use QSynth for this), or use #> ps -ef to see the fluidsynth process id, then check in Frescobaldi if that process ID/name shows in the midi preferences config? It's flyidsynth that converts midi to sound. If I remember rightly all Frescobaldi does is pass the midi data to fluidsynth when it's running in server mode. But you can probably play midi files with timiditu, playmidi, etc even if the above won't work. Hopefully. On Sat, Sep 3, 2022, 12:14 PM J Martin Rushton < martinrushto...@btinternet.com> wrote: > On Sun, 2022-09-04 at 00:52 +1000, Andrew Bernard wrote: > > Using Alma Linux 9 I can get Frescobaldi running with flatpak. I > > just > > installed it - no messing around. See attached image. > > > > Have not tried Alma Linux 8.6. > > > > I have not hammered it to test but the fact that it works is > > something. > > You can seen in the images there are some errors on the terminal. > > But > > I'd rather fiddle with source to address those than build F from > > source, > > which is still ridiculously hard with so many python stumbling > > blocks, > > even when using Qt5. > > > > Andrew > > > Well that seems to work now after a fashion. I don't know if it was > the 52 packages I installed via dnf, two packages via pip3 (pip doesn't > work) or linking qmake -> qmake-qt5. MIDI still isn't producing any > sound, but that may well be local configuration. > > Anyhow, thanks very much. I've added it to the menu system and it runs > up happily without a VT. Just in time for a competition I've tried for > in the past, but didn't manage to get a decent score last year. > > Kind regards, > Martin > > -- > J Martin Rushton MBCS > > >
