Re: [proaudio] midi use flag and alsa-libs

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As mentioned above, I modified the ebuild for ardour 2.9999 to remove the reference to the midi requirement under ardour and it seems to work fine athough I had to manually load the snd-seq-midi kernel module.

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I took Ardour off my system for now as it was the root cause of my
problems, but I'd hate to think it has to stay this way very long.

Hope someone fixes it.

- Mark

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Audiodef<damien@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have exactly the same problem now. Masking this or that didn't help me,
> either. If anyone finds a solution or comes up with an ebuild, I'd be
> interested in hearing about it.
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [proaudio] midi use flag and alsa-libs
> From: Dominique Michel <dominique.michel@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, August 03, 2009 1:47 am
> To: proaudio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Le Mon, 3 Aug 2009 10:36:17 +0200,
> Dominique Michel <dominique.michel@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>
>> Le Mon, 3 Aug 2009 10:12:27 +0200,
>> Dominique Michel <dominique.michel@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>>
>> > Le Sun, 2 Aug 2009 11:41:13 -0500,
>> > Matt Henley <nwmatt@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>> >
>> > > I tried to update my system yesterday and now emerge just returns
>> > > errors.
>> > > After a bit of checking it appears that a large number of my packages
>> > > (including pro-audio overlay) depend on the midi use option in
>> > > alsa-libs.
>> > > This was removed per the change log because of bug #272659. Do you
>> > > have
>> > > any suggestions on how I should get my system stable as I have a lot
>> > > if
>> > > not most of the packages installed that require alsa-libs be installed
>> > > with the midi use flag? Also, is the alsa midi functionality now part
>> > > of
>> > > alsa without the flag or was that functionality removed?
>> > >
>> > > Thanks for any information.
>> > >
>> > > Matt
>> >
>> > Hi Matt,
>> >
>> > Thanks for reporting. Try to update the overlay. I masked the just
>> > unmasked
>> > ALSA packages.
>> >
>>
>> Fan, it doesn't work! Gentoo removed the alsa-*-1.0.20. To downgrade to
>> 1.0.19 will arm more.
>
> It will do nothing for this issue because they dropped the midi flag from
> all
> their alsa versions.
>
>> I unmasked them again.
>>
>> I have no solution for now beside to report all the broken packages to
>> their
>> respective overlays.
>>
>>
>> > According to the old gentoo packages.mask, it is an optional hack. I
>> > don't
>> > know what it mean, but the midi packages in gentoo are working in any
>> > cases.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Dominique
>> >
>>
>>
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