I can't get alsa to use the midi interface to a soundblaster 512. I seem to have all the right modules loaded but playmid reports no playback device and pmidi just plays in silence. alsamixer/amixer show no synth device, which means I can't unmute it if it is there.
I used version 0.5.12a, compiled for the emu10k1 driver with sequencer
support but no isapnp. All the right devices have been created and made
members of audio. I added this to modules.conf:
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# ALSA native device support
alias char-major-116 snd
options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_gid=29
alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
# OSS/Free setup
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
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And /proc/asound/sndstat shows this:
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Sound Driver:3.8.2-980706 (ALSA v0.5.12a emulation code)
Kernel: Linux phaistos 2.4.17 #8 Sun Mar 10 02:02:52 GMT 2002 i686
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation
Card config:
Sound Blaster Live! at 0xd000, irq 12
Audio devices:
0: EMU10K1 (DUPLEX)
Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Midi devices:
0: EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART)
Timers:
7: system timer
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Am I missing something simple? Does the 512 need soundfonts loaded like
the AWE32?
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