On Friday 20 Jan 2006 22:13, D. Michael 'Silvan' McIntyre wrote: > You're all missing the point to some extent. I realize we can't > *fix* everything automatically.
I suppose what makes me glum is the thought that there is no fix for some of these problems (other than switching to a whole different distro), and that other problems sound really simple but will be confusing for the user to fix even if we do identify them. Still, let's keep on the bright side. Anything is better than nothing. Another point: if we can establish that everything _is_ in fact OK, it's got to be worth telling the user that. That's especially useful if they've been working to fix problems they had previously. (Question: should we tell them about it only the first time they run RG, and when they select a "Configuration Wizard" or some such option subsequently, or should we tell them every time they start up RG, but with one of those [X] Don't tell me this again options?) > We can modprobe snd-seq-midi or whatever if the module exists for the > kernel they're running (this one has been cropping up quite a lot > since people started switching to udev). Oh, is *that* why this happens? > We can detect if they have an emu10k1, [...] > We can detect if they have an AC97 or other card with a hardware > port, and just simply *ask* them if they have a MIDI keyboard or > synth module hooked up to it, then recommend a solution if they > don't. Yes, fair enough. > Bad kernel. This would be one of the trickier things, since kernels > evolve comparatively rapidly. We can speak of the past, and > speculate about the future. Kernels up through 2.6.13 (I think) > won't run Rosegarden + QSynth + JACK on a 2.6 GHz 1024 MB machine > without realtime-lsm. And kernels from 2.6.13 onwards won't get decent MIDI timing out of Rosegarden at all. So that eliminates... all of them! Let's just sling up a "Your kernel is not appropriate for audio use" message at startup whatever the hell they're using. > 1) Spelling out "bliff" is tricky, admittedly B-L-I-F-F. Good night. Chris ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
