[ardour-dev] Ardour2 won't start without sn-seq-midi

[Christophe Combelles]

Hello

I'm starting with an empty .ardour2 config.
Ardour2 doesn't start at all :


~$ ardour2
Ardour/GTK 2.0beta11.1
    (built using 1345 and GCC version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21))
Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Paul Davis
Some portions Copyright (C) Steve Harris, Ari Johnson, Brett Viren, Joel Baker

Ardour comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; see the source for copying conditions.
Loading ui configuration file /usr/local/etc/ardour2/ardour2_ui.rc
theme_init() called from internal clearlooks engine!
/usr/share/themes/Clearlooks/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:59: error: unexpected identifier 
`animation', expected character `}'
theme_init() called from internal clearlooks engine!
loading system configuration file /usr/local/etc/ardour2/ardour_system.rc
loading user configuration file /usr/local/etc/ardour2/ardour.rc
ALSA lib seq_hw.c:457:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: No such file 
or directory
ardour-2.0beta11.1: seq.c:2199: snd_seq_create_port: Assertion `seq && port' failed.
Aborted
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Now if I modprobe snd-seq-midi, it starts.  But should it absolutely depend on 
this module ? If yes, shouldn't the use be warned about what to do?


regards,
Christophe
(on Debian Sid)