[LAU] No joy with AVlinux

[diego simak]

Hi Batz,

2010/12/1 Batz <batzman-lau at all-electric.com>:
> Y-ellow All.
>        OK. need some help here. I regret to say that I'm not getting much
> mileage out of AVlinux. I haven't felt quite like throwing a computer out
> the window, since Turtle Beach first started making sound cards. Well, OK,
> It's not quite that bad but it's certainly reminiscent. Ah them were the
> days... However I think my days of experiments in computer aerodynamics are
> behind me. :) I hope.
>
> I'm not even quite sure what questions to ask at this point. There is so
> much not working properly. It all seems quite hopeless. So ultimately; I
> need to know if I am wasting my time or should I persist? Should I move on
> and try a different distro? Though I actually like the distro it self.
>
> The test bed is fairly simple...
>
> 2.8 gig P4
> 1 gig RAM
> Hoontech DSP124 (Envy24) sound card.
> Evolution MK249 USB keyboard.
>
> The final system will be different to this but this will have to do as a
> proof of concept. All of which appears to work in and of it self.
>
> For the most part, software will either connect to MIDI or Audio but not
> both. All except for that little drum machine thing. Hydrogen? I get sound
> and MIDI but it Xruns and crashes regularly. I'm not so much worried about
> the Xruns at this point. There are bigger issues. Linux sampler only works
> as a Zynjacku plug in. Except that Zynjacku's MIDI comes up in the MIDI tab
> of JACK. Everything else comes in under the ALSA tab. Which means there's no
> way to connect to it. Or no obvious way.
>

This is where I can help you now:
make sure that you select in jack setup (using qjackctl for example)
the MIDI Driver as "seq"
You can use also a2jmidid (http://home.gna.org/a2jmidid/) in order to
expose the ALSA Midi ports in JACK
good luck and dont give up


> Yoshimi looked really interesting. It looks as though you can use samples as
> oscillators which could be what I'm after. Except that as above, I can't
> connect MIDI into it. And even when using the little keyboard applet/window,
> it crashes a lot. Usually it takes JACK out as well. To the point of
> requiring a reboot. Because the frozen windows lock themselves and I can't
> kill them. And JACK won't connect anything after that. I guess I could find
> the process and kill it. I can't see that being very helpful up on stage in
> front of an audience though. And the last time it crashed, it seems to have
> crashed permanently. Yoshimi will load and lock it self and that's all.
>
> Perhaps the recording apps work well. I don't know. I'm not set up to test
> that. And this is not my current focus.
>
> So anyway, if any of this sound familiar and is easily fixed then I'd be
> over the moon to hear about it. Or alternatively, should I move on to try
> another distro?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Be absolutely icebox.
>
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