Rosegarden

[Greg Booth]

On 9/12/07, Laurent Asorne <laurent.asorne at gmx.lu> wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 September 2007 21:55:14 Greg Booth wrote:
> > > 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_os
> > >s,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,sn
> > >d_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
>
> I don't have any onboard sound system...
>
> Laurent Asorne
>

Then I may have a misconception. I thought ac97 codec was normally
used by the generic onboard sound systems. Anyone know if that's
correct or not ? Have you checked the bios for any configuration
options of an onboard audio device ?

Greg