Re: [linux-audio-user] I'm tired of being a moron

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] I'm tired of being a moron
From: tim hall (tech_AT_glastonburymusic.org.uk)
Date: Tue Aug 10 2004 - 16:20:24 EEST


Last Monday 09 August 2004 23:50, John Check was like:
> On Monday 09 August 2004 12:04 pm, Robert Jonsson wrote:
> > On Monday 09 August 2004 17.17, Mark Wilson wrote:
> > > I don't have an on-board
> > > sequencer (/dev/sequencer is never recognized or
> > > accessible, which is no surprise, really) on my card.

What soundcard do you have?

> > If AGNULA has ALSA you should instead have
> > the alsa sequencer interface. I think this should have been loaded even
> > if your soundcard does not have any midi features (I could be wrong about
> > this though).

I'm fairly sure that you are correct.

> > I guess AGNULA has MusE 0.6.3 ? With the config you are suggesting this
> > should work fine, stability wise 0.7 would be better but it requires jack
> > at the moment which is another obstacle to overcome.
>
> I gave agnula a spin a couple days ago. It's pretty much "point and shoot"
> once it's installed. it has ALSA and it includes MusE 6.3.
> If I understand how agGNUla works 0.7 MusE will filter down from Debian
> testing. 0.7 hasn't hit Debian unstable yet.

MusE-0.7 will be included in the distro as soon as that, yes. I have had some
problems with the 0.6.x releases of MusE under AGNULA, so Mark's problems may
not all be due to lack of understanding.

> Pretty sure the fine folks at Agnula have the mixer volumes up by default,
> but you may want to check on that if you haven't.
> Synth software is outputting PCM streams either to /dev/dsp or to jack
> ports, for the latter case you may have to connect the ports "by hand"

Volumes are up by default only in the latest release candidates of
A/DeMuDi-1.2.0. This is actually an FAQ and most of the answers can be found
here:

http://wiki.agnula.org
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/reference.en.html
http://www.agnula.org/download/demudi/1.2.0-FAQ
http://www.agnula.org/documentation/FAQ/
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/index.html
http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/
http://kreiger.linuxgods.com/kiki/?linux+sound-permissions
http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/index.shtml

check that /dev/dsp* /dev/mixer* belong to the right (audio) group, they don't
by default - also check that _you_ do, the latter is set by default. I've
been considering starting an AGNULA config wiki page, but have not done so
yet because it represents a considerable duplication of info, however,
repeated questions like this make me think that there _is_ a need.

Mark, please let me know what remains unclear. The best place for this
conversation would really be users_AT_lists.agnula.org or even directly through
http://wiki.agnula.org - I shall start a config page there in the next few
days.

cheers

tim hall


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