On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:12 pm, many eyes noted that Patricia Fraser wrote: > Hi Anne, > > > Hi, Trish. I'm no expert at this, but I play midi files with kmidi - > > note that with kmid I get nothing at all. Have you tried kmidi? > > I've tried KMidi, KMid, playmidi with the -e switch (since otherwise it > says no playback device) - and they all lock the system completely. (KMail > complains bitterly when it can't clean up properly!) > > I've also discovered that I'm getting kernel errors: MPU-401 device not > found or device busy. So now I'll do some more hardware research, in case > this box has a cut-down version of the on-board audio. Everything I've > looked at so far says that the AC-97/VIA8235 sound has the MPU401, but... > Google, here I come... > > 8-) I haven't followed this thread, and I could be way off line, but if you run top before lockup, can you see if something is working in the background?
Recently i was working trying to get sound working on a system and used all the troubleshooting commands and discovered that aplay was working in the background. [see man aplay] It was consuming a lot of CPU fuel. It also sounds like that from the "device busy" messages. Might have nothing to do with your problem. Charlie. -- The River moves, moon travels rock, Streams unreal, clouds there among the flowers. Sails go: They can't know where. Tu Fu This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1Beta
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