[LAU] [solved]qsynth: errors / what a waste of time :(

[schoappied]

Rui Nuno Capela wrote:
> On Thu, March 6, 2008 14:01, schoappied wrote:
>   
>> Shelagh Manton wrote:
>>     
> (snip)
>   
>> As I said, only engine 1 is not working.... You can see that in the
>> messages displayed by qsynth.
>>     
> (snip)
>   
>> 13:38:55.455 Qsynth1: Creating audio driver (jack)...
>> 13:38:55.581 Qsynth1: Creating MIDI router (alsa_seq)...
>> 13:38:55.582 Qsynth1: Creating MIDI driver (alsa_seq)...
>> *13:38:55.615 Qsynth1: Failed to create the MIDI driver (alsa_seq). No
>> MIDI input will be available.
>> JACK tmpdir identified as [/dev/shm]
>> ALSA lib seq.c:935:(snd_seq_open_noupdate) Unknown SEQ snd-seq
>> fluidsynth: error: Error opening ALSA sequencer*
>>     
>
> while in your qsynth1 engine setup/midi, is there anything legible in the
> midi device name box? even though its greyed out?
>
> if it is, make it blank. aha
>
> btw, which qsynth version is this? don't get me started :) i'll suggest
> you upgrate to the current maintained level (0.3.2) as this has already
> been cleaned out, probably ;)
>
> byee
>   
Aha... whow whow... that such a thing can cost me so much time and 
effort to solve.... pfieuw.... (that was really a waste of time...)

Thanks!

I use the default version in the Ubuntu repo.... I thought Ubuntu was 
one of the most up to date distro...!?

Other related question...

I thought to be smart and use the soundfonts of finale 2007 with qsynth. 
But will work, with the *.sf2 extension, but the ones with the *.sfx 
extention doesn't work.... Is there a way to work with this kind of file 
on linux??

Regards,

Dirk