Re: [fluid-dev] fluidsynth can't connect to jackd

[Ray Rashif]

On 7 November 2010 03:25, Orcan Ogetbil <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> We got this bug report from a user at Fedora
>    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=650314
>
> fluidsynth-1.1.2 and above is not playing nice with jack in his
> system. He has jack jack-audio-connection-kit-0.118.0 installed.
> He says it used to work with fluidsynth-1.1.1 and below. I asked him
> what I could think of to locate the problem, however I am out of
> ideas. He's willing to provide information.
>
> He starts jackd via
>   $  /usr/bin/jackd -v -P10 -dalsa -r48000 -p64 -n2 -D -Chw:7,0 -Phw:7,0 -Xseq
> and in the above bug report link you can find his outputs to
>   $ fluidsynth -m jack -a jack
>   $ fluidsynth -m alsa_seq -a jack
>   $ fluidsynth -m alsa_seq -a alsa
>
>
> Could someone give us a hand?

This is exactly the bug I couldn't get my head over recently:

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21031
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/fluid-dev/2010-10/msg00011.html

It wasn't resolved per se, it just continued to work on a larger
buffer, from what I could tell. I myself have a couple of problems
with versions > 1.1, but my system (hardware) is less than trustworthy
since it's a temporary machine (laptop). We received no other reports
of this problem, so it was a minority issue, though not a minor issue.

Upon closing the distribution's bug report I concluded either:

1) some update of a piece of software (we can start to troubleshoot
today and never find it)
2) something fluidsynth is doing that's not friendly with some systems
3) hardware gradual fault (very unlikely)

Now that another user on another distribution reports this, there
might be a higher chance for (1) and (2).


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