[squeak-dev] No MIDI ports found on Linux
Levente Uzonyi
leves at elte.hu
Sun Sep 27 16:05:57 UTC 2015
On Sun, 27 Sep 2015, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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>> On 26.09.2015, at 18:36, Stéphane Rollandin <lecteur at zogotounga.net> wrote:
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>> Hello,
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>> Testing the 5.0 all-in-one from squeak.org in a Mint 17.2 running in VirtualBox (Windows 8.1 host), I see that
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>> SimpleMIDIPort midiIsSupported
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>> returns false with the linux VM, and true with the Windows VM (run though Wine).
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>> So it seems to me that the linux MIDIPlugin is broken (or am I missing something ?)
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> This depends on which sound driver you’re running with. IIRC only Squeak’s ALSA module supports MIDI.
I guess Mint uses Pulseaudio over ALSA. And I know that programs, like
Audacity, can grab ALSA for themselves when nothing is accessing
Pulseaudio. So I guess that should work.
Levente
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