Managed to make TiMidity++ work together with PulseAudio just fine on Focal 20.04.1. The idea is just to start both pulseaudio and timidity under the same user. One-liner for the current desktop user:
sudo sed -E "s,^(SERVER_NAME)=(.*)$,\1=$(id --user --name $USER) #\2," -E "s,^(SERVER_GROUP)=(.*)$,\1=$(id --group --name $USER) #\2," -i /etc/default/timidity && sudo sed -E "s,^(\s*chown) timidity (/var/run/timidity)$,\1 "$SERVER_USER" \2," -i /etc/init.d/timidity && sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo systemctl stop timidity && sudo killall timidity; sudo systemctl start timidity && ps -o pid=,state=,command= -C timidity; systemctl status timidity; sudo systemctl restart pulseaudio; pacmd list-cards One can replace $USER with any user name given PulseAudio starts under the same user as well, the user is a member of the respective groups, and it has sufficient permissions for both daemons. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1793640 Title: Pulseaudio fails to detect sound card, while timidity is installed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/timidity/+bug/1793640/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
