[PlanetCCRMA] OpenMusic for redhat 9

Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Fri Mar 12 10:07:01 2004


> > [...]
> > 
> > Are you sure you have the midishare kernel module loaded? OM does not
> > deal gracefully with its absence...
> >   /sbin/chkconfig --add MidiShare
> > to add it,
> >   /etc/rc.d/init.d/MidiShare start
> > to start it manually. 
> 
> Your problem comes very likely from MidiShare not working correctly.
> 
> Troubleshooting MidiShare to run OpenMusic is described in: 
> http://freesoftware.ircam.fr/article.php3?id_article=73
> 
> I think your problem comes from the /dev/MidiShare device not created
> (this may happen when you install the rpm, I don't know why);

A bug in the package :-)
It is fixed in the new Planet Edge kernel/alsa/midishare release. 
-- Fernando