The system does produce sound (CD/DVD, YouTube, annoying "ta-da" alerts
etc. I'll have to experiment with fluidsynth tomorrow evening,
unfortunately I'm a bit tied up until then.
On Sat, 2022-09-03 at 15:06 -0500, Guy Stalnaker wrote:
> Does the system produce sound (so you know sound drivers are
> working).
> If yes, does fluidsynth produce sound output if you use it to play a
> midi file from a to terminal (you have to provide cli options for
> output device, eg ALSA, and soundfont, full path).
>
> If yes, can you start fluidsynth in server mode and, optionally,
> specify the name (or perhaps use QSynth for this), or use #> ps -ef
> to see the fluidsynth process id, then check in Frescobaldi if that
> process ID/name shows in the midi preferences config?
>
> It's flyidsynth that converts midi to sound. If I remember rightly
> all Frescobaldi does is pass the midi data to fluidsynth when it's
> running in server mode.
>
> But you can probably play midi files with timiditu, playmidi, etc
> even if the above won't work.
>
> Hopefully.
>
> On Sat, Sep 3, 2022, 12:14 PM J Martin Rushton <
> martinrushto...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2022-09-04 at 00:52 +1000, Andrew Bernard wrote:
> >
> > > Using Alma Linux 9 I can get Frescobaldi running with flatpak. I
> >
> > > just
> >
> > > installed it - no messing around. See attached image.
> >
> > >
> >
> > > Have not tried Alma Linux 8.6.
> >
> > >
> >
> > > I have not hammered it to test but the fact that it works is
> >
> > > something.
> >
> > > You can seen in the images there are some errors on the terminal.
> >
> > > But
> >
> > > I'd rather fiddle with source to address those than build F from
> >
> > > source,
> >
> > > which is still ridiculously hard with so many python stumbling
> >
> > > blocks,
> >
> > > even when using Qt5.
> >
> > >
> >
> > > Andrew
> >
> > >
> >
> > Well that seems to work now after a fashion. I don't know if it
> > was
> >
> > the 52 packages I installed via dnf, two packages via pip3 (pip
> > doesn't
> >
> > work) or linking qmake -> qmake-qt5. MIDI still isn't producing
> > any
> >
> > sound, but that may well be local configuration.
> >
> >
> >
> > Anyhow, thanks very much. I've added it to the menu system and it
> > runs
> >
> > up happily without a VT. Just in time for a competition I've tried
> > for
> >
> > in the past, but didn't manage to get a decent score last year.
> >
> >
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
> >
--
J Martin Rushton MBCS
