[PlanetCCRMA] Re: common music on fc8?

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 00:22 +0100, joakim@verona.se wrote:
> Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 19:15 +0100, joakim@verona.se wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> I've so far been running fc7 rpm:s on an fc8 install.
> >> However, it seems this is not possible with common music, due to a
> >> newer sbcl in fc8. Furthermore, the fc8 rebuild of ccrma hasnt
> >> progressed to cm yet.
> >> 
> >> Is this correct? Or can I make cm somehow work anyway?
> >
> > Not really. The version of sbcl on f8 is higher than in f7 and cm needs
> > to be rebuilt. I have pretty much everything compiled including cm, but
> > I have to do some testing which will happen tomorrow. Be patient for one
> > more day...
> 
> Thanks for the new fc8 packages!
> 
> I'm having trouble to get this simple example working though:
> 
> (pm:terminate)
> (pm:initialize)
> (pprint (pm:getdeviceinfo))
> 
> (defparameter *pm-vkeybd* (portmidi-open :input "Virtual Keyboard"
> :output "VirMIDI 1-0" :latency 0))
> 
> (defun midireceiver (mm ms)
>   (pprint mm))
> 
>   (set-receiver! #'midireceiver *pm-vkeybd*)
> 
> 
> I get:
> 
> set-receiver!: #<portmidi-stream "midi-port.pm"> does not support
> :receive-type :PERIODIC.
> 
> Google reports similar problems here:
> 
> http://www.nabble.com/Receiving-from-portmidi-t3666956.html
> 
> So I guess my basic question is if anybody got this working at all?

Strange, I could have sworn this was working a while ago. I'm getting
the same error on tests I'm doing in fc7. It does not look like
*receive-methods* is being initialized at all (in io.lisp or io.scm), if
that is not initialized all attempts to set a receiver will fail. 

-- Fernando