Thierry Vignaud wrote:
George Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
OK, fair enough. I have now replaced the old ISA sound chip with a
new PCI one. But I still have no midi support. This is really
disappointing. First I have problems with an old video chipset and
replace that with a new Radeon chipset and still have problems under
Cooker. Now I have replaced my ISA sound chip with a new PCI
soundchip and sound is still screwed up on Cooker. These are basic
functions. Are they ever going to get straightened out?
classic bug sound tester:
"lspcidrake -v | fgrep AUDIO" will tell you which driver your card use
by default
"grep snd-slot /etc/modules.conf" will tell you what driver it
currently uses
"/sbin/lsmod" will enable you to check if its module (driver) is
loaded or not
"/sbin/chkconfig --list sound" and "/sbin/chkconfig --list alsa" will
tell you if sound and alsa services're configured to be run on
initlevel 3
"aumix -q" will tell you if the sound volume is muted or not
"/sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp" will tell which program uses the sound card.
Thanks for the response, but my problem is lack of functional midi synth
support. Plain old 'pcm' sound works just fine. Midi synth worked
flawlessly for me with the 2.2 kernel under OSS. As soon as I went to
2.4 kernel, no more midi synth. I have tried at least a half dozen
different sound cards and three or four different systems and when I ask
why this is, no one seems to even have an answer. Obviously some people
must be using midi synth. It is required for applications like kmid and
rosegarden. But it is really frustrating that know one seems willing
to share what is required to make it happen. Is on board midi simply no
longer supported? Does one have to get a dedicated midi card or wave
table support now in order to have midi support? If true that really
sucks. Midi synth has been an integral part of sound cards for a long
time. The fact that Linux seems to have dropped support for it (Red
Hats sndconfig no longer even attempts to configure it and snddrake or
whatever it is also avoids it entirely) does not bode well for the Linux
desktop. The problem admitedly is not unique to Mandrake. I have yet
to find a distro that supports sound card midi synth any more. Perhaps
it is in fact an Alsa issue. And the fact that OSS has seemingly
dropped midi synth support is not helpful either. But that just points
out the size of the problem. The Linux development community is writing
off a whole desktop sector by their inability or unwillingness to
address this issue. Does anybody care?
