[linux-audio-user] Newbie Linux user Struggling with MIDI

[PhilJackson]

Christoph Eckert wrote:

>>Ok thanks.  I fired up qjackctl and haven't the foggiest
>>idea what  to do with it.
>>    
>>
>
>Audio applications which use MIDI via the ALSA sequencer or 
>even JACK do usually not autoconnect to [MIDI/AUDIO][In/Out]. 
>You have to do it manually.
>
>In Qjackctl klick on connect and connect your applications and 
>hardware ports as desired, regardless if it was MIDI or 
>audio.
>
>
>Best regards
>
>
>    ce
>
>Thanks.  I clicked "connect" and am looking at the MIDI tab.On one side is 
>  
>
Readable Clients /output  on the other Writeable Clients /input
Under both are two "ports"
one with a plugin port icon -64:CS46XX
one that looks like the plug on a cable 0:CS64XX

Which is which?

Under the Audio tab it is simply blank

When I click "Start" I get the message below -don't know what they mean, 
but it doesn't look good...

Phil J. 
Error  messages from Jack below:

18:28:24.341 Statistics reset.
18:28:25.558 MIDI connection graph change.
18:28:25.565 MIDI connection change.
18:34:12.073 MIDI connection change.
18:34:17.703 MIDI connection change.
18:34:42.249 Startup script...
18:34:42.254 artsshell -q terminate
18:34:43.299 Startup script terminated with exit status=256.
18:34:43.436 JACK is starting...
18:34:43.438 /usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -dhw:0 -r48000 -p1024 -n2
18:34:43.473 JACK was started with PID=7800 (0x1e78).
jackd 0.99.0
Copyright 2001-2003 Paul Davis and others.
jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
loading driver ..
apparent rate = 48000
creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
control device hw:0
configuring for 48000Hz, period = 1024 frames, buffer = 2 periods
Couldn't open hw:0 for 32bit samples trying 24bit instead
Couldn't open hw:0 for 24bit samples trying 16bit instead
ALSA: cannot set period size to 1024 frames for capture
ALSA: cannot configure capture channel
cannot load driver module alsa
18:34:43.998 JACK was stopped successfully.
18:34:45.500 Could not connect to JACK server as client.
18:36:16.931 Startup script...
18:36:16.941 artsshell -q terminate
18:36:17.460 Startup script terminated with exit status=256.
18:36:17.464 JACK is starting...
18:36:17.466 /usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -dhw:0 -r48000 -p1024 -n2
18:36:17.484 JACK was started with PID=7803 (0x1e7b).
jackd 0.99.0
Copyright 2001-2003 Paul Davis and others.
jackd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details
loading driver ..
apparent rate = 48000
creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit
control device hw:0
configuring for 48000Hz, period = 1024 frames, buffer = 2 periods
Couldn't open hw:0 for 32bit samples trying 24bit instead
Couldn't open hw:0 for 24bit samples trying 16bit instead
ALSA: cannot set period size to 1024 frames for capture
ALSA: cannot configure capture channel
cannot load driver module alsa
18:36:17.686 JACK was stopped successfully.
18:36:19.532 Could not connect to JACK server as client.