Re: [iiwusynth-devel] Compiling iiwusynth from CVS

[Josh Green]

On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 09:36, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> I found a MIDI sequencer that says it explicitly supports iiwusynth through 
> ALSA, called Rosegarden (http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/rosegarden/).  So I 
> installed ALSA, and then tried running iiwusynth as suggested on the 
> Rosegarden site:
> 
>   iiwusynth -m alsa_seq path/to/soundfont.sf2
> 
> But when I tried that, iiwusynth complained as follows:
> 
>   iiwusynth: error: Couldn't find the requested MIDI driver
>   Failed to create the MIDI input handler
> 
> It says the same thing when I try '-m alsa'.  I figure this had to do with my 
> having an old version of iiwusynth installed which probably didn't have ALSA 
> support yet (even though it was the latest version available on your site, 
> 0.2.1, so I'm surprised).
> 

Your on the right track as far as using ALSA for /dev/sequencer support.
OSS /dev/midi doesn't allow one to share the connection through multiple
software programs, where as the ALSA sequencer does. What you need to do
is compile iiwusynth once ALSA has been installed (most note-ably
alsa-lib). You should see "ALSA support = yes" or something to that
effect at the end of the iiwusynth configure script, if everything goes
right. You shouldn't need CVS for this. Cheers!
        Josh Green