Re: [fluid-dev] [jack] output ports not showing up or lost

[David Henningsson]

On 2010-10-06 23:09, Ray Rashif wrote:
> Background: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21031
>
> Dieter's workflow involves the following:
>
> * jack
> * rosegarden
> * fluidsynth
>
> For a week or so, Dieter did not touch these. He had:
>
> * jack-0.118.0
> * fluidsynth-1.1.1
> * rosegarden-10.04
>
> In that week, among the kernel and other system software updates a
> (bleeding-edge) Linux system typically has, he ended up with:
>
> * fluidsynth-1.1.2
>
> Suddenly, Dieter could not resume his workflow. Fluidsynth's playback
> ports refused to show up in jackd's connections.

Hmm. I'm on Ubuntu Maverick here. If I run FS 1.1.2 with the following 
line (as specified in the background link) :

fluidsynth -r 48000 -i -a jack /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.SF2

The audio port does show up in qjackctl. The midi in does not, but that 
is correct. For them to show up, you must also specify "-m jack", like this:

fluidsynth -r 48000 -i -a jack -m jack /usr/share/sounds/sf2/FluidR3_GM.SF2

However, when I try that here, fluidsynth does not start properly. I'll 
see if I can trace this down further.

> Obviously,
> troubleshooting standards dictate that he fall back to the
> previously-working version of the program:
>
> * fluidsynth-1.1.1
>
> Unfortunately, this did not solve the issue.

If you ask me, we should make 1.1.2 work and leave 1.1.1 behind. There 
are a lot of bug fixes in 1.1.2, so hopefully this will not be an issue 
there.

// David