Rosegarden 1.4 on Slackware
 

Bought a synth a few months ago and on a whim, wanted to try Rosegarden via midi via synth.

When to LinuxPackages and got the package and had some dependencies that I worked thru, but when I went to start Rosegarden, I got this

A few googles later, looks like it is only in rpm format, not .tgz, and I do know there is a way to conver rmp to tgz...but I also found


http://www.develia.org/tarballs.php?...h&q=Rosegarden


So was wondering...Does anyone use Rosegarden on Slackware from a package and how did they get it installed correctly?

thanks

i've compiled it and its deps
...seems to work fine.

I think I found it on linuxpackages.com. I remember it had about 8 dependancies that I didn't have available, and had to download those too from linuxpackages. They were all compiled by the same guy.

Downloaded and compiled the source straight from the rosegarden website. No dependency issues at all, and runs sweet as a nut. Only thing is it needs scons to compile, but that is no biggy.

Don't use linuxpackages for Rosegarden because it has those optional dependencies that you very well don't need or want. I've got a minimal dependency RoseGarden package, if you want it.

Tuxdev, may need yr package....

Because, I went to the Rosegarden site and installed scons, and d/l and installed from the bzip2 file that is on their site, but no dice.

There were no errors and Rosegarden doesn't have a directory under /opt/kde/bin

Anyway to troubleshoot what went wrong here?

thanks

If you can stand the looks of it or don't have or want KDE, I have the older version of rosegarden which uses only xlibs:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/...pl4-i486-1.tgz
On the other hand I know that tuxdev has some experience with rosegarden as he helped me work out support fro scons in my PkgBuild system using the newer rosegarden (1.4 is newer than 2.1 -figure that out...).
Anyway I compiled the newer version with only QT and kdelibs installed, as I recall, but I never uploaded it to my site.

I use KDE as my desktop, so this probably won't work.

TuxDex, I'm going to shoot you a PM...

thanks

Sorry, turns out it wasn't as handy as a thought. So I tried to rebuild it, with little success. I've been wrangling with a sick system. It seems to crash and do funny stuff when doing CPU intensive tasks.

Fair enough, I'll just fall back on linuxpackages.net and try to work thru the dependencies, will probably post back more here in the next few days to give a status update.

thanks again

Another approach would be to let me give you the PkgBuild I created for RoseGarden. You'll have to snatch scons from linuxpackages and PkgBuild from amigolinux.

Or, gnashley could build a package and upload it, but I don't really want to impose.

After installing all of the extra files, Rosegarden is ready to go.

I started the program up from the command line (from Konsole, I have KDE running) and got this output:

A quick google search returns errors with XGL and people who are in runleve 3...So I'm not sure why I'm getting this...?

I see that Rosegarden has an entry under the K Menu, so I clicked on it to see what would happen, and it started up but I get this warning message:


Any input?

thanks


BTW: I'm new to the midi world, looks like I'm in for a hell of a learning curve...

I don't know what the first error is about, but I got the second one and it didn't seem to be much of a problem.

For that second error you'll definitely want to check out the CPU settings in your kernel config and make sure that the timer frequency is not at the lowest level. I usually set my timer frequency to 1000 and I don't have any problems with anything. If you're running a "newer" desktop or laptop then you'll probably be safe switching it up. Also, you might want to look at making sure that the ALSA synthesizer is synchronized with RTC. That should solve your problem. If you make any changes then you'll have to recompile the kernel.

EDIT: By the way... your first error about not finding a suitable display was probably because you were trying to run Rosegarden as root. Root usually doesn't have access to an X server so it vomits when you try. It ran fine the second time because you ran it as user by executing from the K menu.

Sorry I hadn't been watching this thread. Here'S the package that I created:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/...4.0-i486-1.tgz

I haven't tested it, but you're welcome to do so :-).
This should need only QT and kdelibs to run, although I had to install kdebase and of course scons to compile it with.
If it doesn't work let me know and I'll work on it more.

What type of midi interfaces are you all using between the keyboard and computer?

These are some of the recommendations I've gotten, but I wonder if any are Linux friendly?

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/produ...ace?sku=701379

thanks again!!!

If a keyboard truly conforms to the MIDI standard, and you have got MIDI properly supported in Slackware, there shouldn't be any compatibility issues or concerns. Theoretically speaking, that is.