Hello.
This lot is to do with finding a way to introduce a valid /dev/sequencer
socket on MDK 8.2
The sound/audio subsystem is as per original installation.
Under W2K SP3 , one needs to introduce a special driver to get
the (on board) sound working, which (to me) implies that the
sound system has something `funny' about it ( getting technical now eh? <g>)
The (on board) purports to be ep 1370 and the driver loaded
is i_810_audio.
So far so good. Timidity & Kmid work OK - well, a bit glitchy
but i have never bothered about that, since I have (so far)
only used 'em to play back MIDI files generated from ABC
scripts. The actual music eventually coming planks with
bits of string fastened to them ;=)
I assume that Kmid (like timidity) is doing the MIDI - >wav
conversion in software BTW, which would explain the 'glitches' i think.
I have quite recently though started to look at things like
rosegarden, which (as I expect is true of most more recent MIDI
software) DOES require /dev/sequencer
Quite a lot of the multimedia stuff has never worked on my Linux
side because of the 'can't' find /dev/sequencer socket, which judging
by the mail archive is a very common problem.
On this system , for ex, /dev/sequencer does not even exist, which
I gather means that either:
a. The incorrect set of drivers is loaded.
b. The driver loaded is correct but needs some additional
configuration.
c. The driver does not provide /dev/sequencer because the sound
hardware will not support it.
The documents in the kernel source appear to support [c]
especially as wav / mp3 playing work quite adequately which implies that
the driver IS `correct'.
If [c] is the case, then no amount of adding things to modules.conf
or rebuilding bits of the kernel is going to sort it out, so I reckon that
the two options open are:
1. Sack the on-board sound & put in something that works instead.
2. Find a way of introducing an extra bit of software that will provide
a /dev/sequencer socket - which would at least get it working
after a fashion ......
Anybody got any useful ideas on this? - 'twould be nice to get this
part of linux working here finally!
Regards, RJP
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