On Thursday 08 February 2007, linux-audio-user-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Have you tried with just the following? > > startBristol -jack -b3 > > It looks like the engine has failed to start due to the midi selection (the > default midi options are the ALSA seq so I would advise not changing that). > This causes the GUI to fail as well since the engine is not available. What > version of bristol is this? I am surprised by the error message regarding > 'suid root' as I thought this was dropped in the -69 release on sourceforge > - it should now rely on PAM RT permissions or be started as root, so the > message is superfluous and you only need suid permissions if you want to > use bristol dedicated to the audio device with RT scheduling. Just tried this. Here is the result: >startBristol -jack -b3 You may want to make bristolengine a suid-root executable spawning midi thread Could not reschedule thread to 2 parent going into idle loop flags are 8a000000 midi sequencer Returning socket 5 Opened listening control socket: 5028 Client ID = 129 Queue ID = 0 Device name did not parse, defaults 128.0 Cannot subscribe port 0 from client 128: Operation not permitted Error opening midi device /dev/midi, exiting midi thread connected to :0.0 (80f90a0) display is 1280 by 1024 pixels Window is w 1280, h 1024, d 16, 0 0 0 Using DirectColor display masks are f800 f800 f800 Initialise the hammondB3 link to bristol: 8101220 starting upper manual connection hostname is localhost, bristol port is 5028 Connected to the bristol control socket: 5 bristolengine already active 80d4ea0 80000000 0 parent exiting return - no data in buffer cleanupBristol(0 Doing it sudo skips the suid message but the rest is the same!