Re: [Rosegarden-user] Rosegarden4 without ALSA

[Silvan <dmm...@us...>]

On Tuesday 17 February 2004 09:06 pm, Fernando Fran=E7a wrote:

>  Its possible to use the Rosegarden without ALSA (with OSS sending to
> /dev/sequencer) ? Because i read that the midi recording and editing its

No.  Your choices are ALSA and aRts.  I've never used the aRts driver, but =
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don't think it's terribly useful for anything.  ALSA is what you really wan=
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for best results.

> provided by ALSA. If its right, someone can help with ALSA install ?
> Because i've tryied to install it following the alsa offical site and dont
> works, i dont know if the MIDI device its suported by ALSA in my soundcar=
d.

If your card is a SB Live!, then it's supported by ALSA sure enough.  I don=
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know the name of the driver you need, exactly, but it's something like=20
emu101K.

If you're running a pre-compiled Debian kernel, you should be able to insta=
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ALSA by running

	apt-get install alsa-modules-[YOUR KERNEL HERE]

To figure out what's available, if in doubt, try an

	apt-cache search alsa-modules

I'd expect that to pull in the other packages you need.  If not, try adding=
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alsa-base, alsa-oss, alsa-utils, aconnectgui to the list.

I expect there's some card configuration utility as part of the package=20
install scripts, but I haven't installed ALSA packages in a long time.  I=20
compile it myself, from the alsa-source package.  In a worst case, you can=
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configure what you need with modconf. =20

This is pretty generic advice.  If this doesn't get you over the hump, I ca=
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play around so as to be more precisely useful; maybe download a Debian kern=
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and such.  I'm running Debian Testing myself.  I've been running it for a=20
good long while now, and it's so stable that it has been ages since I had t=
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reconfigure anything.  My memory is a bit rusty.

We'll get you up and running one way or another though.

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Michael McIntyre  ----   Silvan <dmm...@us...>
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