[Techtalk] Timidity and Alsa

[David Sumbler]

On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 11:00 -0300, Daniele Dutra wrote:
> Try adding/uncommenting the following line:
> 
> TIM_ALSASEQ=true

That's done the trick - thanks.

I suppose it should have been obvious, but the error message was, to me,
rather misleading.

> If that doesn't solve the problem, take a look at the following page: 
> http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~djm/ubuntu/

That looks a useful page - I'll bookmark it.

David

> On 5/7/07, David Sumbler <david at aeolia.co.uk> wrote:
>         A couple of weeks ago I upgraded my Ubuntu installation from
>         Edgy to
>         Feisty.
>         
>         I have sound in some applications, but not all.  Every time I
>         boot I am
>         told that Alsa can't be started, because Timidity is not
>         configured, and 
>         I need to edit /etc/default/timidity.  I've had a look at this
>         file, but
>         I have no idea what I am supposed to put in it.  The current
>         version of
>         the file only has one active line, which (with the preceding
>         comment) 
>         is:
>         
>         # Setting overrides (of /etc/timidity.conf) for the ALSA
>         sequencer
>         daemon
>         TIM_ALSASEQPARAMS="-B2,8 -Os"
>         
>         Does anyone have any idea what I am supposed to do to get Alsa
>         to start
>         properly? 
>         
>         Thanks in advance for any help.


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David Sumbler <david at aeolia.co.uk>