Re: [Alsa-user] alsaplayer, virmidi, MIDI kb event detection: nothing works!

[Erik S. <st...@bi...>]

Alexis Huxley wrote:
...
> According to the 'aconnect' man page, it should be possible to list
> the active connections (now I have one right?) using 'aconnect -l',
> but this was a usage error :-( Anyway ...

  -l works only if you use -i and/or -o, the logis seems to be that it
lists ports you ask for (input or output or both), but if you don't ask
for any it doesn't list any...

> So, shouldn't keypresses produce piano now? They don't.
> 
> I tried Muse, and got this:
> 
>         dione$ muse
>         load plugin dir </usr/lib/muse/plugins>
>         searching for software synthesizer in </usr/lib/muse/synthi>
>         5 soft synth found
>         found soft synth <Stk> <stk soft synth>
>         found soft synth <iiwu> <iiwu soft synth>
>         found soft synth <vam> <vam soft synth>
>         found soft synth <organ> <Organ>
>         found soft synth <S1> <S1 demo soft synth>
>         NO Config File </home/alexis/.MusE>
>         ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:597:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: Device or resource busy
> 
> By using 'fuser', I see that /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p is busy because of the
> timidity server running. Ok, well, perhaps that is right?

  probably, not sure what you can do to get around this. but you should
be able to get midi in muse work at least...

	erik