Fedora, ALSA and MIDI OH MY! (Theme to lions, tigers, and bears, oh my!)

[Shelagh]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:54:35 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman <dant at cdkkt.com>  
wrote:

> 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-----
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> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]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 at cdkkt.com> 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.
>