Chris Lale wrote, On 20/12/06 21:27:
Felipe Sateler wrote:
[...]
The main problem seems to be lack of documentation. There are docs
floating around,
but they only cover the basic aspects, and only on the simplest of
configurations.
I have put some of the suggestions from this thread on the NewbieDOC
wiki: http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Sound_in_Debian_GNU/Linux. If
anyone has any pearls of wisdom, please spare a moment or two and add
them to the page.
Feel free to add this to the wiki, but I'm posting here as Google seems
to be very good at finding Debian mailing list postings.
For AWE32/64 and EMU10K1 based sound cards (e.g. SoundBlaster Live! that
requires loading of sound fonts for the hardware synth to play MIDI),
the package:
awesfx
contains programs to load sound fonts.
I wrote a script /etc/init.d/soundfont to load the soundfont on my SB
Live! 5.1 model SB 0220:
#!/bin/sh
set -e
# Exit if soundfonts not present
[ -f /usr/share/sounds/sf2/8mbgmsfx.sf2 ] || exit 0
MYNAME=/etc/init.d/soundfont
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
case "$1" in
start)
EXITSTATUS=0
echo -n "loading soundfonts"
asfxload /usr/share/sounds/sf2/8mbgmsfx.sf2
echo .
exit $EXITSTATUS
;;
stop)
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $MYNAME {start|stop}" >&2
exit 3
;;
esac
then added a symbolic link:
/etc/rcS.d/S51soundfont -> ../init.d/soundfont
so that the sound font is loaded at start-up.
As I picked up the card secondhand without soundfonts, I had to google
for the file name 8mbgmsfx.sf2 and place it in /usr/share/sounds/sf2 -
alternatively I could have purchased a driver CD from the Australian
office of Creative Labs.
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