[Rosegarden-user] snd-seq not loaded under Gentoo Alsa

[Mark K. <mk...@co...>]

Hi,
   I don't know if this is in the archives so I thought I'd report it.

   Finally, after 8 months of owning this HDSP 9652 and with the last 6
months not working at all, I now have an Alsa driver that works. (Well,
pretty much - 26 out, but only 25 in...) ;-) So I thought I'd load up
Rosegarden under Gentoo last night and try it out. The ebuild is for
rosegarden-4.0.9. A couple of comments:

1) For someone who is not a KDE user the build took a long, long time with
most of that time being consumed building something called kdemultimedia. I
suppose this is the DCOP server and stuff like that? Anyway, no big deal,
but I feel like I probably got a lot of stuff I didn't really need.

2) Rosegarden built cleanly, but then wouldn't run. I tried rosegardenserver
and found it was having problems with 'no /dev/snd/seq' messages. A bit of
Googling around led me to 'modprobe snd-seq' which allowed Rosegarden to run
just fine. I eventually added snd-seq to /etc/modules.autoload and now the
machine boots and runs Rosegarden just fine.

   This email is just to record that fact. Add it to the FAQ should it ever
become frequently asked. (BTW - under the PlanetCCRMA flow Fernando does
load this for people, so Redhat users shouldn't have a problem using his
RPMs. I don't know why Gentoo doesn't.)

   I thought the program looked really good. I loaded up some MIDI files,
played them, and recorded them in Pro Tools over the MIDI bus. Timing looked
good.

   I did have one strange 'stored MIDI events' sort of problem. While
playing a MIDI drum pattern, if I hit stop on the transport, wait a few
seconds, and then hit run I get a burst of MIDI notes like the pattern is
trying to catch up. A bit strange, but sort of minor.

   What the latest on doing an audio mixer for Rosegarden?

Cheers,
Mark