[Rosegarden-user] Not jack, not timidity?

[Mike B. <mi...@hi...>]

OK, so I can't use timidity and jack together?  I'd use iiwusynth, but
it's not debianed, and won't even compile for me, which ain't great.

In fact, the .configure gives me:

**************************************************************
Summary:
ALSA:                  yes
OSS:                   yes
MidiShare:             no
JACK:                  no
Sound file:            yes
Readline:              yes
Debug:                 no
Profiling:             no
LADSPA support:        no
**************************************************************

So it doesn't see jackd.  Do I need jackd sources, or headers, maybe?

The failure at compile time is:
---------
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-all-loops
-O2 -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-qual
-Wcast-align -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-unused -c iiwu_cmd.c  -fPIC -DPIC
-o .libs/iiwu_cmd.lo
iiwu_cmd.c:31: readline/readline.h: No such file or directory
iiwu_cmd.c:32: readline/history.h: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [iiwu_cmd.lo] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/iiwusynth-0.2.2/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
---------

Thoughts, as always, welcome.

-Mike.

<SNIP>

> Brief email found on LAU, of possible interest to those having trouble
> with Timidity and Rosegarden.  (Attached below.)
>=20
> Workarounds seem to be not using Timidity, or not using JACK...

<SNIP>

> > and then i can run muse. the problem is that as soon as i have jack run=
ning
> > timidity doesn't sound.
>=20
> Many soundcards allow only one application at a time to access the PCM
> device. In your case, jack opens alsa pcm playback and therefore timidity
> fails to open alsa (it blocks until the pcm device is available again).
> The best solution would be to make timidity a jack client, but this is a
> very difficult task.
<SNIP>