Steve Kieu wrote: > So is there anyway to create a virtual device for > playmidi or kmid to work?. I would like to know if I > can configure kmidi as a netscape plugin too, do you > have any information? > > Thanks very much for your info. >
The short answer (from me) is "I don't know"! As I mentioned, I have been struggling with just this same problem for over a year on several Debian-related OSes (Corel, Stormix, Debian, Progeny). I am NOT a programmer, and my general approach can best be described as "trial and error" <g>. At one point I had it working, but I can't duplicate what I did :( My card is a Sound Blaster PCI 128, that doesn't have a synth chip on-board. Most modern sound cards fall into this category. There is a dirth of info on how to do this sort of thing, and from what I have experienced the "default" set of pre-defined sound devices is a bit different with each OS. The "best" info source on this process that I have found is from the http://www.opensound.com/pguide/index.html site. There are some code examples there as well as the "OSS Programmer's guide v1.1 (PDF)", which I would recommend as general background info. At best it is somewhat confusing to me, and NOT hardware-specific. The fact that you are using another chipset than I do further complicates the problem. My card uses an ESS chipset that has its own set of hardware "features" to contend with. I know nothing about the i810... The best I can reliably re-produce here is to get KMID (and others) to play a MIDI file, BUT I can't seem to get it to pipe correctly to the audio section of the sound card, so I can hear it. I can see KMID running and playing notes on the GUI, but all I get is silence. The process to do this is to install the "softoss2" driver and also a set of sound patch sets (these are usually present if you have KMIDI or Timidity working), then play around with the various synth selections in the KMID preferences/setup menus. I had the most luck getting to this point with the "commercial" OSS sound drivers. Perhaps someone with more knowledge than me can step in here and give us both a "lesson" <g>. I am real good at identifying "problems"....just rather poor at fixing them.... Cheers, -Don Spoon-
