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

[Rene Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I tried to reproduce this but couldn't.

I renamed /dev/sequencer and did export SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa

However I think SDL must try other sound drivers if one doesn't work.




On 11/4/05, Rene Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
>