[PlanetCCRMA] frustrated with midi - finding no help

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 12:15 -0600, David Slimp wrote:
> Thanks,
> 
> I have tried that.
> 
> Here are some outputs, but even with this, muse/rosegarden give same error
> 
> $  cat /proc/asound/cards
> 0 [M1010LT        ]: ICE1712 - M Audio Delta 1010LT
>                      M Audio Delta 1010LT at 0xb800, irq 19
> 1 [VirMIDI        ]: VirMIDI - VirMIDI
>                      Virtual MIDI Card 1

Could you do a "cat /proc/asound/devices"?

That should show a midi interface for the 1010lt, I presume it has one,
right? I have not worked with VirMIDI so I don't know if it could be the
source of the problem. Maybe you could disable it temporarily for now.

> I can see midi drivers in lsmod and can play them using fluidsynth,
> but I cannot start qsynth, muse, or rosegarden because they all
> report THIS error:
> 
> ALSA lib seq.c:928:(snd_seq_open_noupdate) Unknown SEQ hw
> Could not open ALSA sequencer: No such file or directory

This would seem to suggest you are missing device files in /dev/snd/? What
do you see if you do a:
  ls /dev/snd/

What happens if you start Qjackctl and go to the "Connect" window and 
in there to the MIDI tab? Do you see the midi ports? If you do see them
you could try starting kmidimon and connectig the input to it to see if
you get midi bytes from the external controller. 

-- Fernando

> $  cat /proc/modules | egrep -i "midi|401"
> snd_virmidi 4544 8 - Live 0xe0b19000
> snd_seq_virmidi 8320 10 snd_virmidi, Live 0xe0b15000
> snd_seq_midi 10400 3 - Live 0xe09db000
> snd_seq_midi_event 8704 2 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi, Live 0xe09d1000
> snd_seq 61456 35
> snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event, Live
> 0xe09fc000
> snd_mpu401_uart 8704 1 snd_ice1712, Live 0xe082c000
> snd_rawmidi 27936 3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi,snd_mpu401_uart, Live
> 0xe085d000
> snd_seq_device 9612 4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,
> Live 0xe0823000
> snd 69636 29 snd_virmidi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq,snd_ice1712,snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx,snd_ak4xxx_adda,snd_cs8427,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_i2c,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,
> Live 0xe084a000
> 
> 
> 
> ... what ELSE is there to look at that I MUST be missing?
> Who would know about these things?  -- at a lower level ?