Re: midi programs error
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 7:06 am, Han wrote:
> i seem to be having a problem with all program that play edit or create
> midi files for example i got one today with rosegarden:
>
> Sequencer startup failed: MIDI subsystem has failed to initialise
>
> i failed to run Audacity and kmidi does any know what config controls
> this and how-to change it.
Is this something newly broken, or are you just now getting started for the
first time?
Here. Let's use you as a guinea pig. This problem has been cropping up a
lot, due to changes in how various distros decide which modules need to be
loaded during automatic hardware detection, and I've rewritten the error
dialog you saw so that it will hopefully give you just the right piece of
information to go solve the problem. Now it says:
Sequencer startup failed: MIDI subsystem has failed to initialize.
You may continue without the sequencer, but we suggest closing
Rosegarden, running "modprobe snd-seq-midi" as root, and starting
Rosegarden again. If you wish to run with no sequencer by design,
then use "rosegarden --nosequencer" to avoid seeing this error in
the future.
Did that help? (We're preparing to release Rosegarden 1.4 in two weeks,
incidentally.)
A more Debian-specific solution is to run the modconf utility (you probably
have to install it explicitly these days) and go dig up snd-seq-midi (or
snd_seq_midi) from the list, then install it. Modconf works some Debian
Magic(tm) so the module, and all its related dependents, will get loaded on
subsequent boots without your having to run the modprobe command each time,
and without having to follow any of the usual generic instructions about how
to edit /etc/modules-whatever by hand to achieve this. Modconf is how I've
always done it on my own boxes.
If this doesn't get you there, I suggest you try rosegarden-user, as this is
pretty far out of scope for debian-kde. (Actually, I wasn't paying
attention, and I thought this *was* rosegarden-user at first. :D )
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D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre ---- Silvan <dmmcintyr@users.sourceforge.net>
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Author of Rosegarden Companion http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/
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