Hi Batz, 2010/12/1 Batz <batzman-lau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Y-ellow All. > OK. need some help here. I regret to say that I'm not getting much > mileage out of AVlinux. I haven't felt quite like throwing a computer out > the window, since Turtle Beach first started making sound cards. Well, OK, > It's not quite that bad but it's certainly reminiscent. Ah them were the > days... However I think my days of experiments in computer aerodynamics are > behind me. :) I hope. > > I'm not even quite sure what questions to ask at this point. There is so > much not working properly. It all seems quite hopeless. So ultimately; I > need to know if I am wasting my time or should I persist? Should I move on > and try a different distro? Though I actually like the distro it self. > > The test bed is fairly simple... > > 2.8 gig P4 > 1 gig RAM > Hoontech DSP124 (Envy24) sound card. > Evolution MK249 USB keyboard. > > The final system will be different to this but this will have to do as a > proof of concept. All of which appears to work in and of it self. > > For the most part, software will either connect to MIDI or Audio but not > both. All except for that little drum machine thing. Hydrogen? I get sound > and MIDI but it Xruns and crashes regularly. I'm not so much worried about > the Xruns at this point. There are bigger issues. Linux sampler only works > as a Zynjacku plug in. Except that Zynjacku's MIDI comes up in the MIDI tab > of JACK. Everything else comes in under the ALSA tab. Which means there's no > way to connect to it. Or no obvious way. > This is where I can help you now: make sure that you select in jack setup (using qjackctl for example) the MIDI Driver as "seq" You can use also a2jmidid (http://home.gna.org/a2jmidid/) in order to expose the ALSA Midi ports in JACK good luck and dont give up > Yoshimi looked really interesting. It looks as though you can use samples as > oscillators which could be what I'm after. Except that as above, I can't > connect MIDI into it. And even when using the little keyboard applet/window, > it crashes a lot. Usually it takes JACK out as well. To the point of > requiring a reboot. Because the frozen windows lock themselves and I can't > kill them. And JACK won't connect anything after that. I guess I could find > the process and kill it. I can't see that being very helpful up on stage in > front of an audience though. And the last time it crashed, it seems to have > crashed permanently. Yoshimi will load and lock it self and that's all. > > Perhaps the recording apps work well. I don't know. I'm not set up to test > that. And this is not my current focus. > > So anyway, if any of this sound familiar and is easily fixed then I'd be > over the moon to hear about it. Or alternatively, should I move on to try > another distro? > > Thanks in advance. > > Be absolutely icebox. > > _ __ _ > | "_ \ | | batzman-lau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > | |_)/ __ _| |_ ____ _-_|\ > | _ \ / _` | __|___ | / \ > | |_) | (_| | |_ / / \_.-*_/ > |_,__/ \__,_|\__|/ / v > / ,__ > Goodfortune |_____| http://all-electric.com > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
