Rosegarden

[Greg Booth]

> On Wednesday 05 September 2007 02:05:11 D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 September 2007, Laurent Asorne wrote:
> > > I dowloaded the ubuntu studio DVD-image and installed it onto the second
> > > HDD (sata, the first HDD is an IDE, where i have installed Kubuntu).
> >
> > Incidentally...  Since this is the Kubuntu list, I assume you'd rather not
> > have to use GNOME for anything.  If you install "kubuntu-desktop" on top of
> > Ubuntu Studio, you miss out on all the look and feel stuff they intend, but
> > you get to run a normal, sensible desktop environment without all that
> > ghastly gnomish crap everywhere.
> >
> > That's what I'm running myself.  It started life as the Ubuntu Studio DVD,
> > and kubuntu-desktop on top of it made it downright usable.
> >
> > > Ubuntu Studio, I get Rosegarden started without any problem, but it won't
> > > make a sound.... XMMS works okay, so it's not the sound card.
> >
> > Now you get to explore the complicated stuff.  Run QJackCtl, get JACK
> > working, then run QSynth, and configure it to play via JACK.
> >
> > My book is old, but that part should still be enough to give you a more
> > detailed explanation of what I just said:
> >
> > http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/en/chapter-2.html#2
> >
> > (If it still seems complicated, that's because it is.  "How do I get sound
> > working" is my albatross.)
>
> Thanks for all that, but it still won't do any sound...
>
> lsmod | grep snd showed me:
> # lsmod | grep snd
> snd_rtctimer            4384  0
> snd_emu10k1_synth       8192  4
> snd_emux_synth         35968  10 snd_emu10k1_synth
> snd_seq_virmidi         8576  1 snd_emux_synth
> snd_seq_midi_emul       7680  1 snd_emux_synth
> snd_emu10k1           121248  12 snd_emu10k1_synth
> snd_ac97_codec         98464  1 snd_emu10k1
> ac97_bus                3200  1 snd_ac97_codec
> snd_pcm_oss            45056  0
> snd_mixer_oss          17920  1 snd_pcm_oss
> snd_pcm                80260  5 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
> snd_page_alloc         10888  2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
> snd_util_mem            5760  2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
> snd_hwdep              10500  2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1
> snd_seq_dummy           4740  0
> snd_seq_oss            33408  0
> snd_seq_midi            9600  2
> snd_rawmidi            25856  3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_midi
> snd_seq_midi_event      8448  3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
> snd_seq                53232  29
> snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
> snd_timer              24196  4 snd_rtctimer,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm,snd_seq
> snd_seq_device          9100  8
> snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
> snd                    54788  26
> snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
> soundcore               9440  1 snd
> #
>
> THis picture shows the sound card I have installed. perhaps you could find
> something in there which could be of importance. I looked at your tutorial
> and found that e.g. the audio device is different. Could that be the source
> of the problem, because my audio device is no EMU10k1 ?
>
> Laurent Asorne
>

snd_pcm                80260  5 snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss

Do you have your on board sound system enabled on top of a 3rd party
sound card ?

That'll drive Kubuntu NUTS, I had it happen to me.

Greg