[Glastonbury] jackd

[maurice]

Ian and Tim, thank you. By-gum as me dad used to say.

Not sure I understood everything you say but getting there slowly and we'll 
have a go.

Firefox downloader and installer asked me to goto to root and enter the 
password for the purposes of the down load and installation. Mandrake seems 
quite reluctant normally to let you loose in these core parts of the system.


On Wednesday 05 Jan 2005 14:26, tim hall wrote:
> Last Wednesday 05 January 2005 11:21, maurice was like:
> > Rosegarden mentioned xsynth so I went to download it. The firefox brouser
> > was also eager not just to download but to install the rpm package all by
> > itself which I thought was wonderful. Well, of course I did:-)
> >
> > However, and there always seems to be a "however" with Linux,  I got some
> > warnings:
> >
> > Invalid Signature
> > Missing Key
> > . . . . NOT OK
> >
> > So I aborted the down load. From your collective knowledge and wisdom
> > could you advise me if I was right to abort and whether such warnings
> > were right to be heeded.
>
> I have no experience with rpms, so I couldn't tell you what these warnings
> mean. You don't specifically need xsynth to run Rosegarden QSynth /
> Fluidsynth, an external MIDI device or any other ALSA/Jackd compatible
> softsynth will do fine. Also if xsynth is a DSSI plugin (i.e. runs
> internally to Rosegarden) you need to have a copy of RG which is configured
> to use synth plugins. The packaged version may not be.
>
> cheers
>
> tim hall
> http://glastonburymusic.org.uk
>
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