[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Garman) writes: | I have a Sound Blaster AWE 32 Plug'n'Play soundcard. I cannot get it | to play midi! | | I am using the SB awe 32 drivers (that you patch into the kernel). | I've got my /etc/isapnp.conf file (for isapnptools) working | well-enough that my card works for "normal" sound duties | (i.e. anything non-midi). | | I do have the /dev/midi files created. | | The following is the contents of /dev/sndstat [snip] | Card config: | Sound Blaster at 0x220 irq 7 drq 1,5 | (SB MPU-401 irq 1 drq 0) ************ | OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 drq 0 [snip] | The line I highlighted with the "********" is of interest, I think. I | read on a dejanews article that being in parenthesis means the "SB | MPU..." actually wasn't found.
I think you're wrong there. Mine looks exactly the same and I don't have any problem playing MIDI. | The article also suggested that I use | the same irq for my wavetable that I do for my soundcard. But how do | I specify this? Don't know but I don't think you need to change it. Read on... | My /etc/isapnp.conf file is as follows: [snip] Looks fine to me. Very similiar to my own, with the major exception being I'm using IRQ 5. | Any help? I suspect you just haven't loaded the synth up. Do the following and then try MIDI (via drvmidi) again: /usr/bin/sfxload /usr/local/lib/audio/synthgm.sbk I have the line above in a script that gets run at boot time, i.e., I have a script /etc/init.d/sound that performs the operation above and then I link to it from the appropriate /etc/rc#.d directories (where, in my case, # is 2 and 3). Gary
