26 Nov
2004
26 Nov
'04
11:33 p.m.
Last Saturday 27 November 2004 03:09, airplays55(a)yahoo.com was like:
I've been trying to get rosegarden v2.1 working
on
knoppix HD install (to ultimately be remastered to my
custom liveCD).
My first question is Rosegarden-2.1 on Knoppix, why?
I think you're doing this the hard way.
The Knoppix liveCD autoconfigures almost everything
automatically (video, network card, soundcard audio)
but not the soundcard MIDI portion. I believe knoppix
is using the OSS driver to be able to run rosegarden
2.1
Usually you have to specify the MIDI port when you load the sound module,
whether that's the ALSA or OSS module (don't load both, whatever you do!)
[man insmod or man modprobe].
By booting with the ALSA cheatcode, knoppix liveCD
supposedly boots up using the ALSA drivers. The
problem is that I've not found anyone that got
rosegarden working with the midiports, whether using
ALSA or OSS. Since I'm experimenting with a harddisk
install however, I will be able to install any missing
libraries & modules. However in looking at the
rosegarden4 tutorial ch.2, I dont know where to begin
since a lot of the ALSA modules are not installed,
however hopefully I wouldnt need ALSA if I can get
midi working under OSS for rosegarden 2.1?
I'm sure you don't need ALSA to run Rosegarden-2.1, it's _very_ old ;-]
Rosegarden4 is a complete modern KDE based reworking, which requires ALSA/Jack
to run. It is really cool. Reading its documentation won't help you one bit
with RG-2.1 however.
I'm not sure where to begin since rosegarden v2.1
says
/dev/sequencer is invalid. Can somebody please offer
a suggestion of a starting point to help get me on the
track to troubleshoot and get rosegarden working? thanks.
What soundcard are you using?
output of:
lsmod
lspci
???
explain what you're hoping to achieve :-]
cheers
tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk