Re: [jazzplusplus-devel] New Build Instructions on the Web Site

[Kevin C. <ke...@co...>]

On 4 April 2008 at 14:03, Pete Stieber <pst...@ve...> wrote:

> Thanks for suggesting this Kevin.  I'm a long time Red Hat/Fedora user 
> and though the "service" command was specific to Red Hat.
> 
> I'm starting to think there is a problem that is independent of Jazz++. 
>   I tried restarting ALSA from a cold boot and it also has problems...
> 
> # service alsa restart
> Doing alsactrl to store mixer settings...          [  OK  ]
> Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 1.0.14): no. (sound is being 
> used by pid    6272))                              [FAILED]
> ALSA driver (version 1.0.14) is already running.
> 
> Process 6272 is the sound mixer applet (/usr/lib/mixer_applet2).
> 
> Is this normal.  I thought roo should be able to restart this service.

That doesn't look normal.  Here's what I get:

   [root@laptop2-INCOMING #31] service alsa restart
   Doing alsactl to store mixer settings...                        [  OK  ]
   Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 1.0.14):               [  OK  ]
   Starting ALSA version 1.0.14: snd_ali5451.                      [  OK  ]
   [root@laptop2-INCOMING #32] 


> When I check to see what ALSA version I have installed...
> 
> $ rpm -qa | grep alsa
> libalsa2-1.0.15-0.rc1.4mdv2008.0
> libalsa-data-1.0.15-0.rc1.4mdv2008.0
> libalsa2-devel-1.0.15-0.rc1.4mdv2008.0
> libalsa-oss0-1.0.14-2mdv2008.0
> alsa-utils-1.0.15-0.rc1.1mdv2008.0
> alsa-plugins-1.0.14-7mdv2008.0

Here's what I have that grep finds:

alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.12rc1_3mdv2008.0
alsaplayer-0.99.80-0.rc2.1mdv2008.0
alsaplayer-plugin-input-sndfile-0.99.80-0.rc2.1mdv2008.0
alsaplayer-plugin-input-vorbis-0.99.80-0.rc2.1mdv2008.0
alsaplayer-plugin-output-jack-0.99.80-0.rc2.1mdv2008.0
alsaplayer-plugin-ui-gtk-0.99.80-0.rc2.1mdv2008.0
alsa-plugins-1.0.14-7mdv2008.0
alsa-utils-1.0.15-0.rc1.1mdv2008.0
java-1.6.0-sun-alsa-1.6.0.05-1mdv2008.0
libalsa2-1.0.15-0.rc1.4mdv2008.0
libalsa2-devel-1.0.15-0.rc1.4mdv2008.0
libalsa-data-1.0.15-0.rc1.4mdv2008.0
libalsa-oss0-1.0.14-2mdv2008.0


> Should 1.0.14 be mixed with 1.0.15?

Mine apparently is too.

> I don't want to get too caught up in Mandriva specific problems. 

I don't blame you for wanting to stay out of distribution specific 
traps, whatever the distribution or trap.

> Maybe I botched the install?

Did it seem to go smoothly?

> Any ideas Kevin?

See if anything else can access ALSA?  Does TiMidity play things?
How about [x]playmidi?

Good luck....
 
--
Kevin