Hi

I'm running Dapper with Gnome. Being a guitarist I have installed Kguitar in order to read my Guitar Pro files from the windows partition.
Everything installed ok and I'm able to read the files in, problem is there's no sound, sound works fine in my Gnome programs though.

Please help

Eric

Hi Blastradius,
I'm using Kguitar .5 with kde 3.5.4 in Slackware 11.0
I'm not fimiliar With Dapper...But a couple of things
come to mind...
1) Can you play midi files?
2) Do you have the tse3 library installed?
kguitar needs this to play midi output
3) My sound card has no synthesizer so I use Timidity++
If this is true for you as well, how do you start Timidity?
4) Is the alsa mixer un-muted

As an example I have a midi file of Bach's air on the G string
called air.mid. So I can start timidity in server mode with:

$timidity -iA -B2,8 -Os1l -EFreverb=n -EFchorus=n &

timidity returns with the ports it opens..

ALSA pcm 'default' set buffer size 7524, period size 3760 bytes
TiMidity starting in ALSA server mode
Opening sequencer port: 128:0 128:1 128:2 128:3

then I can play the midi file with tse3 thus..

$tse3play -port 128:1 air.mid


This, of course, is just a demo that the software required
by Kguitar works on my Slack 11 system. Except for starting
Timidity (which can be easily scripted)..most of this should
be transparent using Kguitar

I hope this helps

--Lawrence

I've had problems with KDE settings inside Gnome sessions as well. I was able to fix this by logging into the KDE desktop and changing the behavior I wanted then logging out and back into Gnome. I guess the defaults are read from KDE configs (ie...fonts, default sounds, etc...) If you don't have KDE installed on Ubuntu then you can install it to get into the controls by doing the following:

sudo aptitude install kubuntu-desktop

You will then see KDE listed in the logon screen as an option. You then go into Control Center and modify the behavior you'd like to, then save it and logoff. The next login can then be changed to Gnome.

Hi

Thanks for the replies. I've re-installed Kguitar and ran it from the shell which produced this output before opening it:-

eric@ubuntu:~$ kguitar
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
Major opcode: 144
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
Major opcode: 144
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
Link points to "/tmp/ksocket-eric"
Link points to "/tmp/kde-eric"
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
Major opcode: 144
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 166
Major opcode: 144
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
kbuildsycoca running...
Reusing existing ksycoca
kguitar: MIDI Scheduler created

Means nothing to me but may to you guys.

As I mentioned I have perfect sound with everything else.
Thanks again!!

Just out of curiousity is there a similar Gnome program to Kguitar? I tried Dguitar but although I had sound the program itself wasn't a patch on Guitar Pro.