On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Christian wrote: [...] > When running midid by itself (with no redirection from dosemu) it > outputs this error: [...] > Using OSS FM Synthesizer driver v0.10 > open instrument file: No such file or directory > Fatal error: Error while loading FM patches [...] > I'm assuming this is normal, since I've redirected no input, but could the > FM patches be something else? A strace on it does report it not opening > /etc/std.sb - is this a problem at all? You have obviously haven't managed to make a lot of sound applications work then ..... This is a standard part of the OSS REAL SB support. It needs to know which patches (aka FM parameters in the case of OPL based cards) to load, and this is stored in /etc/std.sb for the OPL cards. > Running dosemu while running midid gives me no sound output. Not surprising with no FM parameters. > Midid does > not exit automatically when dosemu exits, though it's stated in > sound-usage. I blame the original author ... 8-) Alistair
