Hi Jimmy,
Thanks for your response. What I don't understand is why timidity is
trying to use jack at all. I want it to use alsa, and so when I run
timidity from the command line by hand I use the -iA switches, and it
all works fine. So I don't know why it is trying to use jack as a
backend when I run it as a service.
I guess if it can't easily be fixed, I will just have to write something
that starts timidity when I start my midi program.
Cheers,
Jonathan
jimmy wrote:
> I use Debian, not Fedora, so there might be some config differences.
> I don't know about the HOME environment thing right off the bat. If someone
> knows, please answer. Else, someone may have to look into Timidity source
> code to figure out.
>
> As for server socket error, and "jack server is not running or cannot be
> started", I think it is one and the same. The problem is the new "jackd"
> version, the message "jack_client_new: deprecated" points to the real cause.
>
> Timidity code still uses jack_client_new() as a mean to connect to jackd.
> However, with the new jackd, and libjack0 both are at version 0.116.1-2 in
> Debian Sid (unstable), the call to jack_client_new() doesn't seem to work.
>
> I tried the following code in jack_a.c
>
> static int detect(void)
> {
> jack_client_t *client;
> jack_status_t status;
> /* ---OLD--- client = jack_client_new(TIMIDITY_JACK_CLIENT_NAME); */
> /* open a connection to the JACK server */
> client = jack_client_open (TIMIDITY_JACK_CLIENT_NAME, JackNullOption,
> &status);
> if (! client) {
> ctl->cmsg(CMSG_ERROR, VERB_NORMAL,
> "jack_client_open() failed, status = 0x%2.0x\n",
> status);
> return 0;
> }
>
> jack_client_close(client);
> return 1; /* found */
> }
>
>
> and equivalent code in
>
> static int open_jack(void)
>
> function of the same file. It seems jackd deliberately breaks that old
> jack_client_new() API call. Otherwise, they could have easily use similar
> code as shown above to implement jack_client_new(), which is simple enough to
> keep old apps working without changes. Either that or they don't care for
> backward compatibility in this case, and force everyone to use new code.
>
> Jimmy
>
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