[PD] could not open alsa sequencer

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On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Ben Dembroski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm very much a PD newbie and more or less a Linux newbie, and am having trouble getting a new PD installation to play nice with ALSA (or is it the other way around?)
>
> I am running Debian sid (kernel 2.6.10-K7), with PD installed via apt-get (0.38.4+amidi-1)
>
> When I try to start PD, it returns the following in the terminal:
>
> ~$ pd -alsa
> ALSA lib seq-hw.c:446:(snd_seq_hw_open) open  /dev/snd/seq failed: No such file or directory
> Pd: system called timed out
>
> Other sound apps seem to be working OK, audacity and xmms are making sounds with no problem, via ALSA (i'm assuming)
>
> I am using a Creative SB audigy card. Just for kicks, I tried using my MOBO's built in sound card, and got the same result.
>
> I've done the usual google searches, and looked on the list archives, and found nothing.
>
> Does this sound like a PD problem, or is it more likely that the configuration of ALSA is the culprit?
>

Most likely this means that your ALSA setup doesn't load the ALSA
sequencer module. Try "modprobe snd-seq" as root.
If this helps you have to find out how to load the module automatically,
in order not to do it by hand.

Greetings,

Guenter

> For what it's worth, I had an Unbuntu Warty install on the same box about a month ago with no problems. I do believe the version of PD was .37 on that install. Unbuntu was nice, but I like the choice of packages that sid is giving me, so I would like to try to get this setup going.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Ben Dembroski
>
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