On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 14:03, Tommy wrote: > hi all, > I've a keyboard midi "Roland PC-300" that work perfectly with GNU/Linux > (and Demudi 1.2.0rc3) > > Now I want to use an old pc only for piano, let me explain. > > 1) I connect the keyboard PC-300 into pc (off) > 2) I turn on the pc > 3) automatically I play with my keyboard with my preferred instrument > "the Piano" (or a synth like qsynth for selecting the instrument from > the bank with midi selection of keyboardmidi) > 4) ctrl-alt-canc for turn off the pc (I know in /etc/inittab how to do > this :) ) > > thanks for any ideas or tips > Tommy > ps. sorry for my bad english Just write a script to get everything set up how you want (you'll probably want to use aconnect, jack_connect, and fluidsynth or qsynth). It'll probably be something like this: #!/bin/sh jackstart -R -d alsa & fluidsynth -m alsa_seq -a jack -j ~/Piano_Soundfont.sf2 & aconnect 64:0 128:0 & Once that's all good just put it in your ~/.login, and when you log in it will automatically just run that stuff. Have fun, -DR-