I have a sound card that played midis perfectly in mdk 7.2, but never since. It still does in Windows, on the rare times I use it.
When I want to play midis in linux now, I use Timidity. This has both a command line interface, and gui interfaces available. TImidity translates the midi on the computer, so, so long as you also have the patches installed, you will more-than-likely get better sound than if the sound card had done it all.
Brian. (from Adelaide)
From: Patricia Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Trish's further adventures with sound Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:26:16 +1000
Hi all,
Now that I've got alsa working with my CD, I've gone off to search ways to get
MIDI working. I have a sneaking fondness for playmidi and have quite a
collection of MIDI files; I'd hate to have to give 'em up!
Alas! although I've progressed past utter silence and incomprehension from various apps, I've managed to lock the computer up *hard*, twice!
/dev/sound has a couple of likely-looking devices: midi1 and dmmidi1, and sequencer and sequencer1. these are linked to by the standard devices. However, if I use either midi1 or sequencer as the output device, I get lockup. I haven't dared try the others yet!
lsmod shows in the relevant part:
snd-seq-midi 5024 0 (autoclean) (unused)
snd-seq-oss 31104 0 (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event 5640 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq 42608 2 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss
snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-mpu401 1984 0
snd-pcm-oss 43556 0
snd-mixer-oss 14488 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-via82xx 14092 0
snd-ac97-codec 40160 0 [snd-via82xx]
snd-pcm 77536 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx]
snd-timer 18376 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-mpu401-uart 4396 0 [snd-mpu401 snd-via82xx]
snd-rawmidi 17600 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 5832 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq
snd-rawmidi]
snd-page-alloc 7732 0 [snd-via82xx snd-pcm]
snd 40868 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event
snd-seq snd-mpu4ss snd-mixer-oss snd-via82xx snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer
snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore 6276 0 [snd]
and, based on stuff I found on the alsa wiki, /etc/modules.conf reads:
probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi probeall usb-interface usb-uhci ehci-hcd above snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss alias eth0 8139too alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx
alias snd-card-1 snd-mpu401 options snd-card-1 port=0x330 irq=7
alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1 alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-1-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-1-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss
So: does anyone have any ideas of things I could try? Have I maybe loaded too
many things? Other than this, alsa is working jest *fine*.
8-)
-- Trish Fraser, Sunbury, Australia Linux user #283226 counter.li.org andromeda up 19 days and counting kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk
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