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

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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

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