Re: [expert] Trish's further adventures with sound
Hi Anne, When you've time, Trish, could you write up the link on the TWiki sound page? Thanks Added to SoundTips. 8-) -- Trish Fraser, Sunbury, Australia Linux user #283226 counter.li.org andromeda up 3 days and counting kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Trish's further adventures with sound
Hi Trish, 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-midi5024 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-oss31104 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 5640 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq42608 2 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-mpu401 1984 0 snd-pcm-oss43556 0 snd-mixer-oss 14488 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-via82xx14092 0 snd-ac97-codec 40160 0 [snd-via82xx] snd-pcm77536 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx] snd-timer 18376 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-mpu401-uart 4396 0 [snd-mpu401 snd-via82xx] snd-rawmidi17600 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] snd40868 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ E-mail just got a whole lot better. New ninemsn Premium. Click here http://ninemsn.com.au/premium/landing.asp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Trish's further adventures with sound
On Thursday 11 Sep 2003 5:26 am, Patricia Fraser wrote: 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! 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? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Trish's further adventures with sound
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-) -- Trish Fraser, Sunbury, Australia Linux user #283226 counter.li.org andromeda up 1 days and counting kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Trish's further adventures with sound
Patricia Fraser wrote: 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! [..] 8-) Not having used midi much, I can only say there was a Mandrake Club article that explained how to set up midi in 9.1 and, when I followed it, I was able to play some midi streams. Here is that article: http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=979mode=nocomments Rolf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Trish's further adventures with sound
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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Trish's further adventures with sound
On Thursday 11 Sep 2003 2:41 pm, Patricia Fraser wrote: Hi Rolf, Not having used midi much, I can only say there was a Mandrake Club article that explained how to set up midi in 9.1 and, when I followed it, I was able to play some midi streams. Here is that article: http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=979mode=nocomments Hah! that works like a charm. Now, I can listen while I figure it out for real - although if it works for Kmidi, maybe it will work for TiMidity... I might copy all the instrument patches across and give it a whirl... Thanks for all the suggestions, folks! I'll narrow it down in the end. 8-) When you've time, Trish, could you write up the link on the TWiki sound page? Thanks Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Trish's further adventures with sound
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-midi5024 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-oss31104 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 5640 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq42608 2 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-mpu401 1984 0 snd-pcm-oss43556 0 snd-mixer-oss 14488 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-via82xx14092 0 snd-ac97-codec 40160 0 [snd-via82xx] snd-pcm77536 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx] snd-timer 18376 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-mpu401-uart 4396 0 [snd-mpu401 snd-via82xx] snd-rawmidi17600 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] snd40868 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
