Thanks for responding!
Yes, I have tried Timidity. It does not work. Timidity has core dumped (segmentation fault) a couple times. I think the problem is at a lower level -- involving the devices - it appears to be something that is not activating the midi hardware interface or so I think.
Kind regards, Dan
Have you got the /dev/sequencer or its equivalent in udev? Midi won't play without
the proper device file. For more info on getting midi to work try the CCRMA site which
specializes in audio/visual redhat/fedora distributions. They have some info on the "modules.conf" settings for various soundcards. That said, I have had midi working and sometimes it don't, and I haven't got a clue what the difference is between the two.
Ps CCRMA have a compiled Timidity which may be of use to you.
Shelagh
-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Richard E Miles Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 1:44 PM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Fedora, ALSA and MIDI OH MY! (Theme to lions, tigers, and bears, oh my!)
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:00:39 -0700 "Daniel B. Thurman" <dant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Folks,
Is it me or does Fedora have a real problem when it has to deal with Sound cards?
I cannot for the LIFE OF ME figure out WHY is FEDORA IMPOSSIBLE getting sound to work!?!?!? I can get my CDROM to play music -- and wave files, etc but... MIDI is one of those simple things that *should* be working but alas -- no -- it is not simple... it is said not to work very well....
I have tried a cheap Yamaha YMF-724F (DS-1) and a not-so-cheap Creative Labs, SoundBlaster LIVE card and there is no way in h$ll I can get midi to work for either cards!?!?!? I cannot even figure out how to disable the KDE arts server since it was removed from the KControl and so -- kindly -- how can I disable it -- just in case it is preventing midi from working right?
Yes, I scouraged goggle, AskJeves, etc. and it seems people got these cards to work just fine on debian, Mandrake, Suze but heck -- NOT ON FEDORA!?!? I tried this on FC-2 and FC-3.
Please, please, please, tell me -- how can I get MIDI to work?
I was told that for YMF-724F the following line should be added in the /etc/modprobe.conf file:
options snd-ymfpci index=0 mpu_port=0x330
but -- nope! Does not work
As for the SB-Live card - no information how in what to add to the modprobe.conf file....
Any help is GREATLY APPRECIATED!
Humbled.... ~Dan
Have you tried timidity? I have played midi files using that. The current timidity is in this rpm: timidity++-2.13.0-3
If you don't have it you can get it using yum.
