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Re: [pygame] unhelpful error message "open /dev/sequencer: No such device"

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From: Rene Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 16:02:46 +1100
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Should pygame.init() fail if it can not find the /dev/sequencer?

I think it should keep going anyway and report that module as failing init.

What do you reckon?



On 11/4/05, Peter Shinners <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 18:23 +0100, Laura Creighton wrote:
> > pygame.init() was failing on this debian linux machine with the error message:
> >
> > open /dev/sequencer: No such device
> >
> > So I spent some time learning how to get a /dev/sequencer, which is
> > the non-obvious
>
>
> Thanks for reporting your investigations. People having linunx sound
> trouble may also find help in the SDL environment variable docs. There's
> several available for controlling the sound device.
>
> http://www.libsdl.org/cgi/docwiki.cgi/SDL_5fenvvars
>
>

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