Peter M�ller Neergaard wrote:
>
> I am using Mandrake 7.2 and have a SoundBlaster audio PCI64V, which
> Mandrake's hardware detection picks up as a Ensonic ES1370 (AudioPCI).
> As far as I can tell from the documentation should support midi.
> Nevertheless, I get the following error report when I try to run
> playmidi
>
> peter:~ > playmidi sicklysweet1b.midsound.mid
> Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 by Takashi Iwai
> This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> For details please see the file COPYING.
> open /dev/sequencer: No such device
>
> When I do ls -la /dev/sequencer I get
>
> crw-rw-rw- 1 turtle audio 14, 1 Sep 27 2000 /dev/sequencer
>
> so I would appear that /dev/sequencer is an existing device.
>
> Does anybody know how to solve this problem.
>
> Thanks in advance
Try using a switch with 'playmidi' such as: playmidi -e <your midi file>
or playmidi -a ,your midi file>
Try playmidi -h for all the switch listings.
man playmidi for further information.
Larry
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