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Kenny
Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> Sorry to bother you in person. I've been trying to post the attached
> message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I've had no success. I have subscribed to
> the mailing list.
>
> CF
>
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>
> Subject: MIDI FILES
> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 00:02:20 -0500
> From: Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hello,
>
> I am relatively new to Linux. I am running SuSE 7.0 Personal on a
> dual-boot system (my other OS is Win98SE). I would like to depend on
> Windows as little as possible.
>
> One problem I am facing is playing MIDI files. First of all, I threw
> out SuSE's Netscape and installed 4.75. I realize that may have messed
> up some dependencies, but the problem goes beyond Netscape. First of
> all, ump.so IS there but Netscape gives me an error message about a
> missing plugin whenever I site includes a MIDI file. Second, I
> downloaded a MIDI file from the internet and tried to play with kmid.
> Kmid accepted it, it behaved as if it was processing the file (I could
> even see keys struck on the keyboard icons), the time slider advanced,
> but NO SOUND! (Sound is the most important thing when a MIDI file is
> played.)
>
> My sound card is an SB16 (it shows up as Vibra16). SuSE recognized
> it and configured it. I am getting the system sounds and I can play
> audio CDs with no problem (the latter is probably irrelevant since the
> analog output of the CD drive --in my case a DVD ROM-- is dircectly
> connected to the sound card). I can hear all the ICQ sounds under Linux
> (I run kicq). My card also works fine under Windows, so the hardware
> must be OK.
>
> Can anybody offer any ideas? Below I have pasted the output of
> lsmod and procinfo.
>
> Gus
>
> Module Size Used by
> ppp_deflate 40300 1 (autoclean)
> bsd_comp 4052 0 (autoclean)
> acm 6260 2 (autoclean)
> ppp 20876 2 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate bsd_comp]
> slhc 4440 1 (autoclean) [ppp]
> snd-pcm-oss 16872 0 (autoclean)
> snd-pcm-plugin 12840 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
> snd-mixer-oss 4308 1 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
> snd-card-sb16 4348 1
> isapnp 27384 0 [snd-card-sb16]
> snd-sb16-csp 15156 0 [snd-card-sb16]
> snd-sb16-dsp 15336 0 [snd-card-sb16 snd-sb16-csp]
> snd-pcm 28824 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin
> snd-sb16-dsp]
> snd-mixer 22704 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-sb16-csp
> snd-sb16-dsp]
> snd-opl3 4328 0 [snd-card-sb16]
> snd-hwdep 3052 0 [snd-sb16-csp snd-opl3]
> snd-timer 8064 0 [snd-pcm snd-opl3]
> snd-mpu401-uart 2308 0 [snd-card-sb16]
> snd-rawmidi 9112 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
> snd-seq-device 3392 0 [snd-rawmidi]
> snd 34924 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin
> snd-mixer-oss snd-card-sb16 snd-sb16-csp snd-sb16-dsp snd-pcm snd-mixer
> snd-opl3 snd-hwdep snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
>
> soundcore 2564 5 [snd]
> memstat 1476 0 (unused)
> usb-uhci 21248 0 (unused)
> serial 42484 0 (autoclean)
> usbcore 42760 0 [acm usb-uhci]
>
> Linux 2.2.16 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc 2.95.2 19991024 ) #1 1CPU
> [linux.]
>
> Memory: Total Used Free Shared Buffers
> Cached
> Mem: 65124 61776 3348 0 2636
> 17444
> Swap: 265064 1260 263804
>
> Bootup: Sat Nov 25 22:33:37 2000 Load average: 0.09 0.05 0.05 1/49
> 1241
>
> user : 0:03:34.19 4.6% page in : 166377 disk 1:
> 24045r 8335wnice : 0:00:22.06 0.5% page out: 39231
> system: 0:01:32.54 2.0% swap in : 30
> idle : 1:12:03.68 92.9% swap out: 315
> uptime: 1:17:32.43 context : 1455965
>
> irq 0: 465247 timer irq 11: 741 usb-uhci
> irq 1: 4863 keyboard irq 12: 98501 PS/2 Mouse
> irq 2: 0 cascade [4] irq 13: 1 fpu
> irq 5: 1160 Sound Blaster 16 [1] irq 14: 40742 ide0
> irq 6: 3 irq 15: 8 ide1
> irq 8: 2 rtc
>
> Kernel Command Line:
> auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=302
>
> Modules:
> 3 snd-seq-midi 25 snd-seq-oss 3 snd-seq-midi-e 37 snd-seq
>
> 39 *ppp_deflate 4 bsd_comp 6 *acm 20 *ppp
> 4 *slhc 16 snd-pcm-oss 13 snd-pcm-plugin 4
> *snd-mixer-oss
> 4 *snd-card-sb16 27 isapnp 15 snd-sb16-csp 15
> snd-sb16-dsp
> 28 snd-pcm 22 snd-mixer 4 snd-opl3 3
> snd-hwdep
> 8 snd-timer 2 snd-mpu401-uar 9 snd-rawmidi 3
> snd-seq-device
> 34 *snd 3 *soundcore 1 memstat 21
> usb-uhci
> 41 serial 42 usbcore
>
> Character Devices: Block Devices:
> 1 mem 36 netlink 1 ramdisk
> 2 pty 37 ht 2 fd
> 3 ttyp 109 lvm 3 ide0
> 4 ttyS 116 alsa 7 loop
> 5 cua 128 ptm 9 md
> 7 vcs 136 pts 22 ide1
> 10 misc 162 raw 58 lvm
> 14 sound 166 usb/acm/%d
> 29 fb 180 usb
>
> File Systems:
> ext2 minix reiserfs umsdos
> msdos vfat [proc] [nfs]
> iso9660 [devpts] [usbdevfs]
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