Hello! The problem with starting fluidsynth was indeed the result of a vesion difference between alsa-driver and alsa-lib. The alsa-driver in th ekernel proved to be 0.9.0rc6; I got the corresponding alsa-lib from the ALSA project site (still works only by IP for me), and compiled it from source; and now it loads. But, it shows a strange warning: === fluidsynth: warning: The sample rate is set to 44100, the synthesizer may be out of tune fluidsynth: warning: Requested a period size of 64, got 65 instead ** Using format s16, rw, interleaved === I don't really want the synthesizer to be out of tune. So I'd like to understand what's going on here. (This message does not appear is I run fluidsynth with -a oss) -- Sincerely yours, Mikhail Ramendik
