David Baron wrote: > First thought it was a qsynth problem but it his everything, across the board! > > I fire up a program, qsynth, qtractor, etc. I simply cannot connect (in > qjackctl or qtractor's or qsynth's connection pane) to a MIDI output device. > Repeated tries will eventually crash out. > > Qsynth will run OK with jack not running (latency not all that bad, either!). > Qtractor would not connect, even without jack running, but the first try with > jack might has locked out further tries. > > The MIDI will connect up fine "locally" with no such program running, i.e., I > can connect the keyboard to an output device and play it. > > I have no .asoundrc or conf file. Any help appreciated because I am eager to > try the new qtractor! > awe. you seem to have a strange problem with (all) my apps and midi (alsa-seq) stuff i presume? complete details about your setup might help, specially everything regarding the kernel, dmesg, modprobe.conf, lsmod output, limits.conf, root or a regular user, whether you're trying to run any of the jackd midi backends, anything... did you try with aconnect? seeya -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user