#110 Can't use Muse if no Jack - alsa_pcm is found.

[Anonymous]

I have a m-audio Firewire audio card that I'm using. In jack it
appears as firewire_pcm instead of my internal intel8x0 which
appears as alsa_pcm.

If I just run my firewire card I have no alsa_pcm just
firewire_pcm
and muse refuses to start. Saying that it can't find alsa_pcm.

This setup works fine with for instance, hydrogen, ardour,
rosegarden.
Those programs start up and let me connect my firewire_pcm
and i.e hydrogen_pcm manually.

I would really like for muse to atleast start up so I can patch
jack manually.

Thanks

[Robert Jonsson]

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Hi,

Interesting that you are trying a firewire card. Freebob drivers I
presume.
I think we need some more info about your problem though.
That alsa_pcm is not found should not affect if MusE starts, this is only
a warning message that the default template could not map the
outputs.

Which version of MusE is it?
Does it work ok if you run jack on the intel8x0?
Any other clues about differences, no other output from MusE? Does
the GUI show at all?

A good idea is to subscribe to our mailinglist (lmuse-user, see above).

[Robert Jonsson]

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I have finally gotten around to test this with my own firewire device
(EDIROL FA-101) and it seems to work just fine.
The device is differently named so the default template does not make the
correct connection but that is easily added later.

Setting bugreport to pending as it probably is not muse related.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Hi,

Yes I use the freebob drivers. I was a bit hasty when I
submitted the bug report. It's not related to not finding
alsa_pcm.

When I run muse in a console I see this:
---------------------------8<---------------------------
[13:03:41] xxx@xxx ~ $ muse
/opt/kde3/bin/konqueror
no locale <muse_en_US.UTF-8>/</usr/share/muse/locale>
starting with default template
name2route: <alsa_pcm:playback_1> not found
name2route: <alsa_pcm:playback_2> not found
WatchDog: fatal error, realtime task timeout
(0,0-3) - stopping all services
watchdog exit
---------------------------8<---------------------------
So I guess it has something to do with Realtime? If I start with
-d it loads the gui.

I'm running Suse 9.3 with a RT patched kernel.

Thanks.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Forgot to mention that the muse version is 0.7.1

Thanks.

[Daniel Kobras]

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This looks similar to the problem a user reported for the
0.7.2pre2 Debian package. He's using jack and a realtime-lsm
enabled kernel. The watchdog triggers right after startup
because no timer ticks seem to get delivered. See
http://bugs.debian.org/325064 for the full story. I cannot
reproduce this problem and would appreciate any input. Maybe
both reports have a common cause?

[Robert Jonsson]

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Hi,

After 0.7.1 Werner fixed a bug with regards to the watchdog that
might be the problem here. Please try the latest prerelease.
Also the alsa-timer implementation in 0.7.1 was less than stellar it
seems, it has been reworked by Jonathan Woithe and seems to
work much better (no hard proof though), this is however still only
available in cvs, if anyone wants to try it check out the REL07
branch.

[SourceForge Robot]

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