[Frescobaldi] MIDI playback setup

[Simon Albrecht]

Hello everybody,

I just took another shot at configuring MIDI playback in Frescobaldi. 
Before the last ubuntu reinstall I performed, I had the good fortune 
that it worked by simply starting `timidity -iA` on the command line, 
then refreshing MIDI output ports in Frescobaldi’s MIDI options and 
selecting one.

This doesn’t work anymore – I can start timidity -iA but Frescobaldi 
‘can’t see it’.

So I went to 
<https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/wiki/MIDI-playback-on-Linux> and 
followed what seemed to be the simplest instructions: installed 
fluidsynth, qsynth, and the soundfont, started the Qsynth GUI, selected 
pulseaudio as audio driver – but the result is the same: apparently no 
MIDI output port is visible to Frescobaldi.

What can I do?

Thanks in advance, best regards
Simon