[LAU] Fedora 11: no ALSA sequencer

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 06:01 -0400, lanas wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
>   There's no ALSA sequencer available in jack on Fedora 11 x86_64,
> using CCRMA's jack audio kit:
> 
> qjackctl reports:
> 
> "Could not open ALSA sequencer as a client"
> 
> "ALSA MIDI patchbay will be not available"
> 
> And further:
> 
> "ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457 (snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No
> such file"
> 
> This is an Acer Aspire 6939 laptop to which a M-Audio Axiom 25 is
> connected via USB.  Does this have to do with the laptop's hardware ?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505421

See the last entries in the ticket, Jon Masters wrote:

"I am not ignoring you but have been busy with some other
things for the past few days - this is planned for the 
next build and should be there before Monday."

So it looks like it is going to be finally fixed. This was originally reported 
in June. 

The workarounds suggested in the thread should help you in the
meanwhile.

-- Fernando