Re: [fluid-dev] Problem running fluidsynth

[Andy Gimblett]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 03:37:40PM +0300, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> Fluidsynth cannot connect to your sound card. I get the same errors
> when I start it without options.  Try those command line options:
> 
> -a alsa
> -a alsa -o audio.alsa.device=hw:0
> -a alsa -o audio.alsa.device=plughw:0

Excellent - thanks.  I had hoped to try this out last night but didn't
get chance.  When I do get chance, I'll let you know how I got on.
:-)

> The warnings will go away if you run it as root (you don't have to).

Don't want to if I can help it...

> Please let me know, whether that works or not.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Markus
> 
> PS: 
> 
> If you happen to have jack running on your machine
> (http://jackit.sourceforge.net), things are very simple: Use the -a
> jack -j command line options and that's it.

*nods* - I haven't got round to fully investigating Jack yet, but I
will later on I think.  Thanks for the tip, anyway.  :-)

Cheers,

Andy

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Andy Gimblett
Computer Science Department
University of Wales Swansea
http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csandy/