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Posted: June 11 2007,12:01 QUOTE

OK I'm not at home so can't give you all the screenshots...but when I tried to run fluidsynth with a soundfont alot of errors spewed up and it said it was disabling LDACC or something like that....I tried so many things to get fluidsynth to play. It's definitely installed so we are on the home run :D

May I ask: how can you test alsa is working properly ? I do type 'dsl alsa' at the beginning....it seems fluidsynth can't play back sound through alsa......at least that's what the error suggested.....

Also a bit off topic but is it possible to get jack running and jack rack? I wanted to add some eq to the soundfont. I do appreciate I'm pushing DSL to it's limits....I just want to be able to run some music stuff off USB stick not installed to hard drive.
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Posted: June 11 2007,12:32 QUOTE

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May I ask: how can you test alsa is working properly ?
I would say the best thing to do is proceed step wise:
1. Can you play an mp3 through your PC soundcard Y/N?
2. If Y, then can you play/record a midi file through your midi box Y/N?
If you can post the answers to these and similar questions it will enable others to help.

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Also a bit off topic but is it possible to get jack running and jack rack?
The extension I sent you previously took the alsa extension in the repository and added files to give some or all of the functionality of aseqnet, aseqdump, arecordmidi, aplaymidi, aconnect, iecset, arecord, aplay, amixer, amidi, alsamixer & alsalisp (I don't remember exactly which ones were in the extension to start with). If I recall correctly, I had to compile alsa from scratch with "plug-ins enabled" when I was trying to get a bluetooth headset to work and this enabled jack - I may be wrong but I don't believe this functionality was in either the original or the modified alsa extension.

You may need to start playing around with an .asoundrc (alsa configuration) file to get the sort of functionality you are looking for.
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Posted: June 17 2007,10:13 QUOTE

Arrrgh talk about frustrating........
I got eveything working....I switched off my pc last night.
Started it up today and it booted into Fluxbox...mmm..I was in JVM last night.............so something went wrong on the usb stick ...
So I've started from scratch today. Re-installed Alsa. Ran GNUtils..........
Do you think I can get alsa to see my Edirol UM-1EX?! Arrgh!
When I look in proc/cards only my Soundblaster is listed there. I've done a modprobe snd-usb-audio . I'm still running DSL 3.3

I wonder what's not working. I'm doing dsl alsa mydsl=sda1 at the start and alsa is loading............
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Posted: June 17 2007,10:44 QUOTE

I can't be sure of this ( I don't want to confuse others reading my post who are having same problems) but I've got it working again. I think I am right in saying I pointed to the older repositories and then re-installed Alsa from scratch and now things are working again with the midi interface. I'm trying to work out why this might be..............
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Posted: June 17 2007,12:42 QUOTE

To add to this the reason why my Edirol Um-1ex usb midi interface did not show up was down to the fact I have to type

modprobe snd-usb-audio

for it to appear.

Does anyone know how to restart alsa from terminal please? Fluidsynth is reporting that another audio device is using the soundsystem but I don't have any other apps open that are using sound....
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