Dan Thurman <dant@cdkkt.com> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Hmm... read everywhere that Kmid does not work for some. On my FC3 it doesn't - it reports a /dev/sequencer in use by another application when the device does not even exist. Most everything else seems to work that is not MIDI file based. Some suggested to use Kmidi as a replacement but I guess that is not even around. So... folks... what is used for doing MIDI files? </blockquote>Timidity works just fine, but that is not a fix IMHO. In the past I jerked out the soundcard, rebooted to allow the hardware gizmo to uload it, then (with modprobe.conf edited to remove all reference to a soundcard, and then with the machine safely off) re-inserted the card, then rebooted to get the hardware install gizmo to make it's own entries into /etc/modprode.conf and THEN mid! i seems to work, more times than not. As soon as I added the OSS stuff, it would blow up again. I haven't a clue about all this, except that midi seems to stay broken and that I have to use timidity (as a workaround, not a fix) to play a midi file. Of course Rosegarden and kmid stay broke. Now I don't have even that, with my yum upgrade to FC5... udev is broke as is my X desktop. <sigh> I heard on NPR yesterday that the japanese word for diaster is 'opportunity'. <chuckles> Ric ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ...the Sin of Ignorance, and ...the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ ================================================ <hr size=1>Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman1/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39663/*http://voice.yahoo.com">Make PC-to-Phone Calls</a> to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.