I am using alsa-source-0.5.9c-1 and kernel-source-2.2.17 (which I obtained from woody), I configure kernel sound to be modular, but no other sound specifics, and I used (for the SB Live!) setenv MODULE_LOC ../modules/ setenv ALSA_NOPNP y setenv ALSA_CARDS emu10k1 and the make-kpkg command to build the kernel image and modules. (I assume you are doing something similar, but I am repeating for the benefit of the list.) For my alsa build I checked that --with-sequencer=yes was configured in by default. For more modern alsa systems you may now have to set another environment variable to trigger this *required option* for midi via make-kpkg.
>From what you say below, you are actually using a newer version of alsa-source than I am, but I don't think that should be any problem. I installed the deb results generated by the above steps, *and then ran alsaconf*. I use the alsaconf-0.4.3b-2 package (again from woody because potato sound is hopelessy out of date). alsaconf automatically sets up /etc/modules.conf by automatically putting the right commands into /etc/modutils/alsa and then running update-modules. If you have some other hand-edited alsa stuff in /etc/modutils (or worse in /etc/modules.conf itself) you should remove it. alsconf also runs (IIRC) the appropriate depmod and modprobe commands so all the modules stuff just works including the sequencer and loading sound fonts. Hope this is enough to get you going again with Alsa and loading sound fonts because I will be out of touch for a while after today. Alan email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 250-727-2902 FAX: 250-721-7715 snail-mail: Dr. Alan W. Irwin Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3055, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8W 3P6 __________________________ Linux-powered astrophysics __________________________ On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > > (1) Use ALSA SB live driver! I don't have the reference any more, but I > > saw a > > table a few months back comparing the different SB live drivers, and the > > ALSA one was the only one that allowed sound font loading at that time. This > > may have changed since for the non-ALSA drivers, but I haven't investigated > > because ALSA does the job. > > > I'm using the CVS version that http://members.tripod.de/iwai/awedrv.html > points to which works..but /dev/sequencer fails and thus sfxload fails. > > Should I be using a different one? > > Ivan > -- > ---------------- > Ivan E. Moore II > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://snowcrash.tdyc.com > GPG KeyID=90BCE0DD > GPG Fingerprint=F2FC 69FD 0DA0 4FB8 225E 27B6 7645 8141 90BC E0DD > >
