At Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:55:58 +0200,
Tero Knuutila wrote:
> 
> Hello list!
> 
> I have SB Live 5.1 digital and I'm using driver compiled into kernel. Sound 
> is functioning, I can listen to mp3 with xmms and the KDE startup sound 
> works also.
> 
> Then the tricky part: I can listen midi only with timidity and/or 
> Fluidsynth. I also tried to read through existing answers on this mailing 
> list but most of them talk about modules.
> 
> I have enabled following on kernel/Sound:
> 
> <*> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture                 &#9474; &#9474;
>    <*>   Sequencer support                               &#9474; &#9474;
>     [*]   OSS API emulation                               &#9474; &#9474;
>    <*>     OSS Mixer API                                 &#9474; &#9474;
>    <*>     OSS PCM (digital audio) API                   &#9474; &#9474;
>   [*]     OSS Sequencer API
> 
> and from Sound /PCI:
> 
> <*> EMU10K1 (SB Live! & Audigy, E-mu APS)
> 
> I have tested my system with pmidi and everything seems to be fine, but I 
> can't hear anything. I am SURE that  midi is not muted. Here's a listing 
> with pmidi -l :
> 
> Port     Client name                       Port name
> 64:0     Rawmidi 0 - EMU10K1 MPU-401 (U    EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART)
> 65:0     Emu10k1 WaveTable                 Emu10k1 Port 0
> 65:1     Emu10k1 WaveTable                 Emu10k1 Port 1
> 65:2     Emu10k1 WaveTable                 Emu10k1 Port 2
> 65:3     Emu10k1 WaveTable                 Emu10k1 Port 3
> 
> I have installed AWEtools (or something like that). And when I try to load 
> soundfont with sfxload I get:
> sfxload /etc/midi/CT4MGM.SF2
> /dev/sequencer: No such device or address
> 
> It doesn't help if I give device /dev/sequencer2, it gives same error.
> I have Gentoo system with devfs kernel option.

firstly, check whether /dev/sequencer really exists.
if it's there, check /proc/asound/seq/oss and whether emu10k1 is
registered as the synth device.


> So finally some questions: Is it possible to get MIDI working with SB Live 
> 5.1? If I can't use SB midi synth directly is there a way to use aconnect / 
> FluidSynth combination so midi programs (Noteedit for example) won't notice 
> difference.
> I am willing to try every trick, I want midi ! :-)

it should work.  the problem is likely a configuration.
or, there might be a bug in the case all stuffs are built-in to
kernel.

anyway, it must work if you set up them as modules, and also setup
devfs configuration correctly.  (i don't know about the latter much,
since i've never used devfs...)


Takashi


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