On Tuesday 10 August 2004 09:20 am, tim hall wrote: > 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. > The 0.6.2/3 releases were... uh.. suboptimal. > > 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. > I'm sure I'll get flamed, but wikis leave a lot to be desired as primary documentation. There are ways to address this, but they're obvious. At least to me. > Mark, please let me know what remains unclear. The best place for this > conversation would really be users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx or even directly > through http://wiki.agnula.org - I shall start a config page there in the > next few days. > > cheers > > tim hall
