Solfege, timidity & DGuitar, MIDI issue.

Jorek · 01-11-2006, 12:08 PM

Ok, here's the deal. I'm trying to get the program GNU/Sofege work on my Slack 10.2 box...
I have sucsessfully installed both Solfege, DGuitar and timidity onto my computer.
When I kill artsd, DGuitar can succsessfully play MIDI. But, when I use Sofege, which uses timidity to play MIDI, I'm not able to play any MIDI files... When I go to Edit>Preferences>Sound Setup and click on "Test" the .mid player, I get this error:

/usr/bin/timidity: error while loading shared libraries: libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I guess thats because I miss the libpangocari-1-0.so.0, right:P
I have installed pango(which includes libpangocari-1-0.so.0, right?), but it still won't play the MIDI file, and I get the same error!

So, my question is:
Does anyone of you guys know how to solve my problem with timidity and the missing lib?
And, since I can play MIDI files with DGuitar, does anyone know how DGuitar plays MIDI files, and can I use the same method in Solfege(using the same engine or something?)

In advance, thanks.
BTW: Sorry for incorrect english...
Jorek.

foo_bar_foo · 01-11-2006, 02:59 PM

ear training !

it seems you timidity is linked to libpangocairo
this doesn't have to be the case
cairo is a 2d drawing thing that can be used for fonts but i don't think is necessary so your system doesn't have it. cairopango or pangocairo is not a part of pango.
must be wrong timidity package or should rebuild timidity

Jorek · 01-13-2006, 05:07 PM

Ok, I downloaded TiMIDIty++, and managed to install the program.
But still, no sound:/
I use ALSA, and I have tried to ./configure with the defaults and with the flag
--enable-audio=alsa
but it won't work! Do I have to use some other flags or what! These MIDI troubles are quite annoying, because I really need to get Solfege and KGuitar up 'n working...

When I ./configure with the default, I get this error when I try to play a MIDI file:

Code:

user@darkstar:~$ timidity Guitarlick.mid 
Warning: Audio buffer is too small.
Playing Guitarlick.mid
MIDI file: Guitarlick.mid
Format: 1  Tracks: 8  Divisions: 192
Track name: TabIt MIDI - Track 1
Track name: TabIt MIDI - Track 2
Track name: TabIt MIDI - Track 3
Track name: TabIt MIDI - Track 4
Track name: TabIt MIDI - Track 5
Track name: TabIt MIDI - Track 6
Track name: TabIt MIDI - Track 7
No instrument mapped to tone bank 0, program 30 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to tone bank 0, program 31 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to tone bank 0, program 33 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to tone bank 0, program 42 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to tone bank 0, program 48 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to tone bank 0, program 71 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to tone bank 0, program 108 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to drum set 0, program 35 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to drum set 0, program 38 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to drum set 0, program 39 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to drum set 0, program 40 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to drum set 0, program 42 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to drum set 0, program 46 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to drum set 0, program 49 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to drum set 0, program 55 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to drum set 0, program 57 - this instrument will not be heard
No pre-resampling cache hit

I think thats very odd, since I can play the midifile with DGuitar...

When I ./configure with the --enable--audio=alsa flag I get this error:

Code:

user@darkstar:~$ timidity Guitarlick.mid 
Requested buffer size 32768, fragment size 8192
ALSA pcm 'default' can't set hw_params
ACCESS:  RW_INTERLEAVED
FORMAT:  S16_LE
SUBFORMAT:  STD
SAMPLE_BITS: 16
FRAME_BITS: 32
CHANNELS: 2
RATE: 44100
PERIOD_TIME: (30979 46438)
PERIOD_SIZE: (1028 2048)
PERIOD_BYTES: (4112 30108)
PERIODS: (1 15)
BUFFER_TIME: (185759 341316)
BUFFER_SIZE: 8192
BUFFER_BYTES: [32768 60208]
TICK_TIME: 10000
Couldn't open ALSA pcm device (`s')

Help!