[PlanetCCRMA] amSynth under FC3 -- continued

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Mon Mar 14 10:00:02 2005


On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 20:43, Bradley S. Campbell wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I've at least gotten alsa to work and jack to start with no errors,
> however when i try to get amSynth to start, I get the following:
> 
> ALSA lib seq_hw.c:446:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No
> such file or directory
> Error opening ALSA sequencer.
> <MidiInterface> failed to open OSS midi device.
> <MidiInterface> couldn't open any MIDI drivers
> <MidiController> failed to init MIDI. midi_driver:auto
> failed to open any midi device

I don't know the cause but the alsa sequencer kernel module is not
autoloaded in fc3, to work around that you can activate the alsasound
sound startup script:
  /sbin/chkconfig alsasound on
the sequencer module should load on the next boot. 
Or load it manually:
  /sbin/modprobe snd-seq

-- Fernando