[PlanetCCRMA] Fluidsynth can't talk to JACK

[Peter Howard]

On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 14:12, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > This is on FC1.  jack 0.94, qjackctl 0.2.5, fluidsynth 1.0.3, and qsynth
> > 0.1.0
> > 
> > I use qjackctl to start jack, then qsynth to start fluidsynth.  But I
> > keep getting the following error out of qsynth:
> > 
> > "Failed to create the audio driver (jack).Cannot continue without it."
> 
> I assume both are running as the same user, right?

Yes. I'm logged into the machine as root when trying this.

> Have you tried starting fluidsynth from the command line?
> 
>   fluidsynth -a jack -m alsa_seq soundfont_name

Same result.

> > No further information, no messages from jack.  However if I start
> > fluidsynth as an alsa client rather than jack (as described on the
> > qsynth homepage), it starts fine and I can access it from other programs
> > via alsa.
> > 
> > Clearly there's something wrong with my jack setup.  Suggestions?
> 
> Do any other jack programs work?
> Freqtweak, for 
 
I just installed freqtweak to try.  It connects fine.

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