On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, David Stern wrote: > On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Timothy Phan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm in the middle of learning to play keyboard/piano. I'd like to > > know if there is any MIDI software on Linux that can help me. > > > > I've AWE32 soundblaster card. I'd like to know what driver do I > > need. Currently, my Debian/Linux box can not play any sound and > > I guessed that I do not have the driver for the soundcard. So, I > > would like to know how do I go about install the driver. > > > > Thanks! > > First you need to get sound working, then you can see about midi progs. > > To get sound working,.. > > If you have the non-Plug-n-Play, you should be able to just compile > sound into your kernel. (might need the awedrv kernel patch, below) > > If you have the Plug n Play version of the awe32, you can either.. > > get the commercial OSS Commercial driver for $20 (a five day free > trial) at some web address I forget, something like > www.4front-tech.com, (and then you're all done, no patches) or.. > > configure your Plug n Play devices by either.. > > switching to loadlin bootloader (if your bios does Plun n Play > initialization), or.. > > get a plug n play initializer like isapnptools (should be in > dselect), configure it (time-consuming), then.. > > recompile your kernel after adding the awedrv patch (also in > dselect, you need to run an install script in /usr/src/awedrv > to apply the patch). > > I don't have a keyboard recently, so I haven't got any tips on programs > that would interest you. Try a search for 'rose' and 'octave' in > dselect, though.
octave is probably not what you want, cool and froody though it is. octave is a MATLAB clone. A good one too. > > David Stern > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
