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

[Laura Creighton <lac@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In a message of Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:34:30 CST, Joe Wreschnig writes:
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>On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 18:23 +0100, Laura Creighton wrote:
>> pygame.init() was failing on this debian linux machine with the error m
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>> open /dev/sequencer: No such device
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>Are you sure it was failing? Pygame (SDL) will print this message if it
>can't find the sequencer, but it doesn't raise an exception, and it
>doesn't stop sound from working.
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>>>> import pygame
>>>> pygame.init()
>open /dev/sequencer: No such file or directory
>(6, 0)
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>If you were actually seeing an exception, it was probably from something
>else.
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>Joe Wreschnig <piman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sorry, I was unclear, and (somewhat confused it seems).  By failing I did 
not mean 'generates an exception'.  I meant 'I get no sound'.  I connected
the lack of sound with that error message, which perhaps was wrong.  At
any rate, the modprobe -l | grep snd-seq and then go and modprobe everything
on that list was the fix that got the sound to work.  (While building and
installing 4 kernels by hand, and a whole lot of other things I read
doing google searches didn't. :-( )

I still think that the error message

open /dev/sequencer: No such file or directory

should be reserved for cases where this is no /dev/sequencer or where
the permissions are such that you cannot open it, but maybe that's just
me. :-)

Sorry for any confusion,
Laura Creighton