On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 23:22 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > C. Linus Hicks wrote: > > >On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 20:07 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > > > > >>Hello, > >> > >>I was tring to play a .mid for the first time since installing FC3. I > >>use KDE, so I just browsed to the file with Konqueror, and double > >>clicked. KMix open and gave this error: > >> > >>Couldn't open /dev/sequencer. > >>Probably there is another program using it. > >> > >>I also tried the following: > >> > >>$ locate sequencer | grep dev > >>/usr/share/doc/alsa-lib-devel-1.0.6/doxygen/html/group___sequencer.html > >> > >>What so I have to do to get FC3 to play midis? > >> > >> > > > >Do you have any /dev/snd/midi* nodes? > > > > > > > From `locate mid | grep dev` I got: > /dev/dmmidi > /dev/midi > /dev/snd/midiC0D0 This may be a udev or related issue. Try (as root) cd'ing to /dev and do 'MAKEDEV sound' and see if that helps. Please note that you will lose these device nodes on re-boot. -- C. Linus Hicks <lhicks at nc dot rr dot com>
