Re: [timidity-talk] no display of channel data, & loss of controls

[Yair K <ce...@gm...>]

On Fri, 25 May 2007 22:33:13 +0300, Jerome Potts <jer...@gm...>  
wrote:

> i'm confused, i don't get the same results as what i see at the
> screenshots: when i launch with the -iT option, i don't get the
> channels info (the bottom 2/3 of the screen on the screenshot), and
> with -ia, same, i don't get anything below the messages: again, no
> channels data/info. Oh, and with -iT, no keyboard control whatsoever
> (i was expecting "q" to quit, "h" to tell me what other keystrokes are
> available to me), nothing except ^C when i want to stop it.
>
> This which follows indicates how i built Timidity++ on Gentoo Linux:
>
> ~ $ equery uses timidity++
> [ Searching for packages matching timidity++... ]
> [ Legend	: Left column  (U) - USE flags from make.conf			  ]
> [		   : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ]
> [ Found these USE variables for media-sound/timidity++-2.13.2-r3 ]
>  U I
>  + + X         : Adds support for X11
>  + + alsa      : Adds support for media-libs/alsa-lib (Advanced Linux
> Sound Architecture)
>  + + ao        : Use libao audio output library for sound playback
>  - - arts      : Adds support for aRts: the KDE sound daemon
>  - - emacs     : Adds support for GNU Emacs
>  - - esd       : Adds support for media-sound/esound (Enlightened Sound  
> Daemon)
>  + + flac      : Adds support for the flac audio codec
>  + + gtk       : Adds support for x11-libs/gtk+ (The GIMP Toolkit)
>  - - jack      : Adds support for the JACK Audio Connection Kit
>  - - motif     : Adds motif support (x11-libs/openmotif x11-libs/lesstif)
>  + + nas       : Adds support for network audio sound
>  + + ncurses   : Adds ncurses support (console display library)
>  + + oss       : Adds support for OSS (Open Sound System)
>  + + portaudio : Adds support for the crossplatform portaudio audio API
>  - - slang     : Adds support for the slang text display library (it's
> like ncurses, but different)
>  - - speex     : Adds support for the speex audio codec
>  - - tk        : Adds support for Tk GUI toolkit
>  + + vorbis    : Adds support for the OggVorbis audio codec
>
> Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
>
> JP
>

You need to enable trace mode by adding "t" to see the channels. Timidity  
-iTt, timidity -iat, etc. Toggle "Hide Trace" in xaw mode (or press "t" in  
ncurses) to show/hide the trace.
There's no keyboard control in -iT. Use ncurses (-in) for that.

Yours,
	Yair K.

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