[PlanetCCRMA] No midi

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 21:43 -0500, John Dey wrote:
> Hi list members,
> 
> I have returned to planet--ccrma ( 2.6.10-2.11.rhfc3.ccrma) and am 
> having trouble getting midi to work.  I have a midisport 1x1 uno and am 
> using midisport-firmware-0.5 to load the firmware.  Audacity works so I 
> have some idea that pcm is working.  I get an error message when 
> loading qjackctl:
> 
> 20:51:45.920 Patchbay deactivated.
> 20:51:46.264 Statistics reset.
> 20:51:46.267 Could not open ALSA sequencer as a client. MIDI patchbay 
> will be not available.
> ALSA lib seq_hw.c:451:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No 
> such file or directory
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

On fc3 you could enable the alsasound startup script so that the
sequencer kernel module is loaded automatically, for some reason that
does not happen automatically on fc3 (don't know why):

  /sbin/chkconfig alsasound on

You can also start it manually:
  /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound start

-- Fernando