At Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:52:19 +0200, jlh wrote: > > > Hi all. > > I have a via8233 onboard chip and I'm still not able to play midi files. > > First: Some people told me, the via8233 has no midi-synth. Is this > true?
yes. > This would > mean, the windows drivers for this chip are doing software-synthesis. Can ALSA do > this? (Yes, I know, timidity can.) no. it's not a job of kernel driver. this should be done on user space. hence, timidity (or fluidsynth or your favorite one) is a right way. > There is no volume control for MIDI in alsamixer. Is this normal? yes (since there is actually no MIDI). > The file > /proc/asound/oss/sndstat claims, that there is no MIDI device and no SYNTH device > present. But I have compiled the alsa drivers with --with-sequencer=yes. The > modules > have build and they're all inserted. I even have the /devfs/sound/sequencer device, > which disappears, when unloading snd-seq-oss.o. But when I try to read from it with > `cat /devfs/sound/sequencer', I get the error `no such device'. here the "sequencer" refers to "ALSA sequencer", which is a different concept from the normal "sequencer" program. it's a MIDI event router and scheduler engine. this doesn't mean that you have a software (or hardware) wavetable MIDI playback engine. > What's wrong? so, nothing wrong :) > (BTW, the DSP playback is still noisy, when not playing at 48kHz.) try dxs_support=3 module option for the recent version (see alsa-kernel/Documentation/ALSA-Configuration.txt for details). Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
