On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 01:16:43AM -0700, Henricus Holtman wrote: > Has anyone managed to get midi running on a SoundBlaster awe64 pnp card with > sarge with a 2.6 kernel? > > I want to use Solfege on sarge running a 2.6.8-2-686 kernel on my PII > computer > with a SoundBlaster awe64 pnp card. Solfege seems to use midi as its sound > output. My sb card, with the snd_sbawe module and its dependents loaded > seems > to play cd's, but I have been having a frustrating time trying to get > any midi > output. There seems to be a lack of precise documentation on how to > accomplish > this. I have read that the Soundblaster-AWE howto is the documentation for > this, but it is old, seems to be presuming that you are going to > interface with > oss, instead of the alsa that is built into the 2.6 kernel, so I don't > know how > to interpret this howto. For example, does one need isapnptools with > the 2.6 > kernel, or has this been absorbed into the main kernel? > > In general there are many modules and programs that seem to have some > connection > with my goal, but what if any combination I haven't found yet. I don't > understand what the sound modules do in general. I tried timidity, in > order to > bypass the whole midi input but it seems as if it will not work smoothly > on my > system, probably due to my slow cpu (333MHz) speed. > > If anyone has some kind of an idea to help me out of my quandary I would > be very > thankful. > > Henricus Holtman
Hi Henricus Have you tried aoss from the alsa-oss package? $aoss solfege works for me. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
