Edgar, I pushed a commit some weeks ago about porttime and portmidi detection in autotools. What is your problem exactly ?
2014/1/18 Edgar Aichinger <[email protected]> > Am Sonntag, 19. Januar 2014, 02:35:46 schrieb Philip Rhoades: > > Richard, > > > > > > On 2014-01-19 01:47, Richard Shann wrote: > > > On Sun, 2014-01-19 at 01:15 +1100, Philip Rhoades wrote: > > >> > > > >> > In the Edit->Change Preference->Audio/MIDI tab under MIDI Backend, > > >> > Input > > >> > Device. The MIDI backend should be PortMidi and you device should > > >> > appear > > >> > under the drop down menu for Input Device. > > >> > > >> > > >> Under that drop down menu I have: > > >> > > >> ALSA > > >> JACK > > >> none > > >> > > >> > > >> > I think this is the first thing to establish - is your device > > >> showing > > >> > up > > >> > in that drop down menu? (Clean, freshly booted machine with device > > >> > plugged in). > > >> > > >> > > >> Doesn't look like it - no sign of PortMidi - there is only > > >> "PortAudio" > > >> in the Audio Backend. I installed portmidi-tools and ran pmdefaults: > > >> when I select the keyboard as input I can see responses on the > > >> virtual > > >> LED when I press keys (but I knew this was working anyway - it is > > >> only > > >> getting the input into Denemo that is a problem). > > > > > > There are two panels, one Audio Backend then below it MIDI backend. > > > I think perhaps you looked under the Input Device of the Audio Backend. > > > > > > No, the second panel has: > > > > Audio Backend > > PortAudio > > JACK > > none > > > > Output Device > > Lots of ALSA devices > > > > the third panel has: > > > > MIDI Backend > > ALSA > > JACK > > none > > > > > > > But this already shows a difference from what I see - you have no > > > PortAudio option (which I have) and you *do* have ALSA and JACK options > > > which I don't have. > > > > > > Hmmm . . > > > > > > > I don't know too much about it, but my guess is that this isn't the > > > plain vanilla build but one with JACK and ALSA enabled and PortAudio > > > disabled. IIRC it is Edgar Aichinger who builds for Fedora. > > I do build for Fedora, but only since mid of December when I incorporated > the changes Jeremiah had made to my spec file about 2 months ago (see > thread "Help needed" from December), and that's what Philip is using if I > remember right. > Anyway I just checked, and it's true, my build excludes portmidi, because > for some reason I still have to investigate, -lportmidi isn't found wt link > time. I'll look into that as soon as possible, perhaps tonight. > > But, I also tried to connect my MIDI keyboard to denemo using the ALSA > backend, and it worked well, the only irritation was thatALSA backend was > already set, but didn't show in qjackctl's ALSA tab until I selected it > again, and hit OK in that dialog... > > Edgar > > > > You could try the binary - this you can install without root > > > permissions > > > http://denemo.org/downloads/denemo-1.1.0-0.linux-x86 > > > > > > I'm not able to run this myself, but I believe it works fine on other > > > distros. > > > > > > OK but there is another issue now - when I boot with the MIDI K/B > > plugged in, it seems to rearrange the audio cards on the computer or > > something because then I can't produce any sound at all! If I plug the > > K/B in after booting, I still have sound and can at least get life out > > of the K/B for other things - just not for use as input to Denemo . . > > > > In any case, it is a pain having to reboot the server all the time - I > > will try the same exercise on a laptop, which has the same OS on it but > > of course doesn't have all the stuff connected to it that the server > > does . . anyway, I'll check out your link and see if that helps at all. > > > > Thanks for the help! > > > > Regards, > > > > Phil. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Denemo-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/denemo-devel > -- Éloi Rivard - [email protected] « On perd plus à être indécis qu'à se tromper. »
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