I think ALSA does not enable the sequencer and OSS support by default. I would suggest trying an ALSA driver rebuild after running configure again with the specific options to enable OSS support (which I suspect you need for Denemo) and the midi soft-sequencer.
./configure --with-sequencer=yes --with-oss=yes I haven't had any success using playmidi with my SB Live! However there is an ALSA midi sequencer called pmidi which does seem to work (although I was stalled for quite some time until I discovered the need for soundfonts to be loaded using sfxload). http://www.parabola.demon.co.uk/alsa/pmidi.html Hope this is helpful. Russell. olavg writes: > Hi, > > After very much hard work and some good hints found at this list and > otherwhere, I finally managed to compile and install Alsa for the SB 128 PCI > soundcard. > > The reason I did this was that there was no midi sound with the native linux > driver for this card. When I tried to use playmidi I got a message that > /dev/sequencer did not exist. Well, in the directory /dev there was > actually something called "sequencer". Playing wav-files, and having sounds > to accompany the desktop events was no problem. I could hear Linus Thorvalds > tell me how he pronounces Linux. > > I downloaded Timidity, and then I could play midi-files by calling Timidity > from the command prompt. > > But what I wanted was to hear the notes as I entered them in Denemo. And > this was to my knowledge not possible to do with Timidity. > > But after I installed Alsa, the situation is exactly as before. .au and > .wav-files play, but /dev/sequencer and hence Denemo is as silent as before. > > I installed Noteedit. The same thing here. The display shows that the notes > are played. But no sound. I tried tse3play: same thing: display shows > playing, but no sound. > > I have spent hours searching the net for a solution. The result is that I > find dozens and dozens of other people with the same problem, but not a hint > of a solution. The snd-card-ens1370/1 source-code contains lots of things > related to midi. But for me, who 25 years ago took a short "programming for > poets" course in Pascal at the university, there is not much of enlightenment. > > Is it possible to get Noteedit play its notes with this sound-card, is it > possible to hear the notes as they are entered in Denemo? > > Olav > > > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
