On Monday 01 February 2010, Chris Cannam wrote: > The typical USB MIDI controller keyboard I'm thinking of also has a > thru port, so it shows up as a duplex device.
Suckage. > In my (obviously limited) experience Well, mine is too. Especially with the new-fangled USB stuff. > I do see your argument too though. If you and Julie agree that it's > better the way it is now, that's good enough for me. Well, it's better on our systems. It actually picks the right thing out of the box for me all across the board now. But I'm probably the freak exception. > Owwowwowwow! That sounds like a serious bug. Oh lordy. Another > thing I ought to look into. If we go back to detecting new ports when they become available, then the critical question is do we: A) make them available for manual connection, and otherwise do nothing? B) look for a play device 0 with no connection, and try to connect to that? In the latter case, you can make a good argument I should revert the "connect to hardware play devices as a last resort" part of the code and leave it up to the user to realize they have no sound, and start QSynth or something. Going back to the drawing board all over again though, Ubuntu-based distros have that /etc/init.d/timidity which almost always runs, but only produces sound part of the time. We're normally going to find that, and it's normally not going to work. I don't think it's compatible with JACK or PuleAudio, or some damn thing. It actually works on my daughter's out of the box vanilla Kubuntu install, but that box doesn't like JACK yet, and I expect getting JACK working will kill TiMidity. See previous rant. "My sound doesn't work" is a question we will never solve until we take this to some other platform. Now for a platform with all the good stuff we love about "Linux" and none of the evil. Windows and OS-X ain't it, unfortunately. I think all of this crap used to be a lot easier on DOS, myself. Of course it helped enormously that you could only run one single application at a time. -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
