[linux-audio-user] Midi and computer freezing

[Brian Dunn]

chris beagles wrote:

> On 5/12/06, Josh Lawrence <hardbop200 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 5/12/06, chris beagles <christhemonkey at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > My kernel is the latest one supplied by ubuntu.
>> > And my attempts at compiling my own kernels all failed miserably : )
>>
>> I'm writing a HOWTO to address this.  Please give it a read at
>> http://www.hardbop200.com/howto-compiling-an-rt-kernel/ and let me
>> know if this helps.  I haven't conquered the config part yet, so it is
>> still incomplete.
>>
>> -- 
>> Josh Lawrence
>> http://www.hardbop200.com
>>
> Ok i tried using aconnect with no X server running, but,
> realised that i dont really have any command line midi clients.
>
> So i just used aplaymidi -p 64:0 and then had a look at it with 
> aconnect -o
> And this gave me another hard frozen computer, and no errors displayed 
> onscreen.
>
> I shall try compiling my own kernel again at some point.
>
> Chris
>
Chris, what is your sound hardware?  Do you have a joy/midi port you
could use instead? Mine has worked perfectly on my SBLive Value emu10k1.