Timidity Error "couldnt open output device"

shady_Dev · 12-31-2009, 03:57 PM

Hi,
I installed timidity++2.13.0 from source i m getting the error : Could'nt open output device. Please help!!
thanks....

amani · 01-01-2010, 09:22 AM

is your sound system ok?

You may need to adjust the configs

Which Linux distribution?

shady_Dev · 03-19-2010, 12:49 PM

i m using fedora 6 and yeah sound system is fine i have mplayer installed and i can listen to songs alsamixer is working. I guess one calls it "fine "

Please help i need to get tuxguitar working and thus i need timidity up and working.
Thanks

brucehinrichs · 03-19-2010, 01:46 PM

I don't have experience with Fedora, but a quick search turned this up:

Quote:

Take a look:

fuser -v /dev/snd/* /dev/dsp*

Distros are pretty stupid in not patching programs like timidity to use ALSA by *default*. Taking a look at Fedora, its timidity contains TiMidity++-2.13.2-libao-first.patch, which defaults to pulseaudio. Ho hum, they get half a point for trying, although pulseaudio should have been thrown out of the distro

I found it on this link: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=87858
Hopefully this thread helps...

amani · 03-27-2010, 10:57 AM

fedora 6 is too old and unsupported, consider installing Fedora 12