I've built rosegarden with arts support (I'm using KDE 3.4.1). When I run it, all I get is: koxta@hell ~ $ rosegarden koxta@hell ~ $ Rosegarden ArtsDriver - Arts 1.4.1 koxta@hell ~ $ And the rosegarden splash screen appears with the "Initializing View" caption. After about a minute I get a KDE error: ,,The Rosegarden sequencer could not be started, so sound and recording will be unavailable for this session'' When I build rosegarden without arts, alsa is being used and I get no sound either. Any ideas? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -v media-sound/rosegarden-4.1.0-r1 2. rosegarden 3. Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Apr 27 2005, 16:57:56)] distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.5, 1.9.5, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6, 1.8.5-r3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig candy ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="pl_PL" LC_ALL="pl_PL" LINGUAS="pl" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib accessibility acpi acpi4linux alsa arts audiofile autofs avi berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts cdinstall cdparanoia cdr crypt css cups curl devfs dga divx4linux doc dvb dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode escreen esd fam fbcon flac flash foomaticdb fortran gcj gd gdbm gif gimpprint gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 jack java jpeg junit kadu-modules kadu-voice kde libg++ libwww lirc mad md5sum midi mikmod mjpeg mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nvidia objc ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl png pnp ppds python qt quicktime readline real ruby samba scanner sdl slang spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff timidity truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts usb videos vim-with-x vorbis win32codecs wxwindows xine xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib linguas_pl userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
It's unlikely that the two problems described here are due to the ebuild or gentoo in general. For "arts support" see http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/resources/faq/#toc30 "In theory, Rosegarden can use aRts for audio, MIDI soft synths and outboard MIDI devices. In practice, this support is highly unlikely to work for you." For "no sound" see http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/resources/faq/#toc31 "You need a soft synth! See the next question." As you have timidity in your USE flags, you'll probably want to try this one. There's also an excellent tutorial at http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ See Chapter 2 "Producing Sound" at http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/en/chapter-2.html#2 "Many users have written to ask why they are unable to get Rosegarden to make any noise. It is the most common question asked on the rosegarden-user mailing list by far, ..."
I've loaded the soundfonts into my sb audigy and now midi works. However, arts USE flag should be disabled whatsoever. What's your opinion?
Unfortunately we don't have enough maintainers, so this bug had to sit a while. Please test v.4.1.2.3 and file bugs as you encounter them.
