On Thursday 09 June 2005 01:38 pm, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote: > machines. If you run Rosegarden on a remote machine, this remote system > must have sound (audio/MIDI devices) attached, and ALSA/aRts/Jack running.
It isn't quite that easy either. I've played with this a little, because I have two terminals that are basically diskless workstations. (They're not actually diskless because I got fed up keeping all that stuff working, and I had a ton of small, old hard drives laying around anyway, but they behave in principle the same way as diskless workstations.) I never really achieved satisfactory or useful results with MIDI, and I never got remote audio working in any fashion Rosegarden could use in any way. That was awhile back. Maybe JACK has some kind of client/server remote network capability now that I'm not aware of. ALSA's MIDI sharing is very limited, as you and I discussed some time back. > If the application (or perhaps KDE) has been compiled to use > Xft/Fontconfig, the fonts used should be installed at the same machine > where Rosegarden runs, not on the workstation, because fontconfig uses > client-side rendering of the fonts. Look at this thread: > http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/fontconfig/2003-December/000719.html I have no clue on any of that stuff, but I can report that my workstations just have an absolutely bare bones installation of Debian, yet my users can make use of any fonts I have installed on the server without any special fiddling on my part. That's not particularly helpful to the OP in terms of solving the problem, but it does illustrate what can be done. I don't honestly know how it works. It just kind of fell into place all by itself using stock Debian components and stock configs. I had to make very minimal changes to get the remote X thing working, and those changes didn't involve any font-related twiddling. Anyway, after playing with Rosegarden from remote a bit, I concluded that the most reasonable thing to do would be to have a MIDI interface on the server, and run any necessary cabling/repeaters/audio broadcast stations/whatever to get what needs to be there out to the terminals. The MIDI interface really needs to be on the server to do anything interesting with Rosegarden. I can't imagine that sharing audio over the LAN would do anything good for latency either, for that matter, so again, it would be better to run the audio on the server. If you disagree with any of these assertions, I'd be glad to be shown a way to run Rosegarden in my son's room with it running out here on the other end of the house. I never did manage to do anything interesting with it. I just got one single MIDI channel at a time, I think, if I remember correctly, and no audio. -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
