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Haomin

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Registered: 2013-10-05

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[Solved] Can not start timidity

Edit: The problem disappeared after rebooting the system.

I am using timidity with pulseaudio. I was able to use timidity a year ago but it doesn't start today.

% timidity -iA
Requested buffer size 32768, fragment size 8192
ALSA pcm 'default' set buffer size 32768, period size 8192 bytes
TiMidity starting in ALSA server mode
ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such device
error in snd_seq_open

It seems to me that /dev/snd/seq exists. (I am in the audio group.)

% ls -la /dev/snd/seq
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 1 Sep 29 22:39 /dev/snd/seq

I also tried to start timidity as root, getting different errors.

# timidity -iA
No protocol specified
xcb_connection_has_error() returned true
No protocol specified
xcb_connection_has_error() returned true
No protocol specified
xcb_connection_has_error() returned true
Couldn't open output device

Some people got similar errors before, and they fixed their errors by loading snd-seq module.

# modprobe snd-seq
modprobe: FATAL: Module snd-seq not found.

Can anyone fix it?

Edit: The problem disappeared after rebooting the system.

Last edited by Haomin (2013-10-05 01:19:23)