On ד', 2005-11-09 at 20:00 +0200, David Harel wrote:
> I have installed both timidity and ALSA. ALSA is installed as a set of 
> libraries since I have to use kernel 2.4. I can use OSS on kernel level. 
> Still I failed to use kmid. Got error on /dev/sequencer

Yes, cause you didn't have a synthesizer, either hardware (your sound
card doesn't have one) or software (e.g. timidity in MIDI server mode)
running.

> and I don't 
> understand how to use timidity to play midi files.

$ timidity file.mid

Try reading this:

http://jt11-55-2.tky.hut.fi/misc/timidity-my-howto.html#running

> Maybe I have to recompile things? ( 
> I use Gentoo packages ).

Hope not :)

> > Modern packages (RPMs, DEBs) of Timidity should come with pre-recorded
> > (known as "wavetable synthesis") samples of all the General MIDI
> > standard musical instruments.
> Can you give me a name of such a file so that I will search for it?

You know, the timidity(++) package that comes with Debian or Fedora
Core...


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