[F8]: Getting MIDI player to work: HOW?
Dan Thurman
dant at cdkkt.com
Wed Jun 11 01:15:56 UTC 2008
On Tuesday 10 June 2008 05:55:40 pm fred smith wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 05:52:09PM -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> > Hmm. I did not realize that since my Amarok and other
> > sound players do work, why is it that MIDI does not?
> >
> > I do have PulseAudio installed...
> >
> > Also, when I click on PulseAudio Device Chooser, nothing
> > appears at all.
> >
> > Anyway, can someone point the way?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Dan
>
> I dunno about Fedora, but on Centos 5 (RHEL5) there is no midi player.
> I couldn't find a RPM for timidity++ anywhere, but it was easy to
> build and install. now my web browser can play midi tracks without
> hassle.
> I know, some people prefer binary RPMs only, but sometimes they just
> aren't available.
Double-clicking on the midi file ran kmid, but there is no sound.
Timidity++ comes installed with Fedora 8. But still, it does not
do anything. I ran:
timidity -iA -OO &
TiMidity starting in ALSA server mode
Opening sequencer port: 128:0 128:1 128:2 128:3
Then kmid: no sound.
I used -OO because esound option (-Oe) failed to run Timidity++,
even though esound appears in pulseaudio manager as a client but
for some reason the -0e option fails. I do notice in PA Mgr that
esound clients and modules are there, modules have arguments.
Maybe the modules needs to be configured? Dunno.
lsmod returns:
========================================
snd_rtctimer 6753 1
snd_hda_intel 319865 6
snd_seq_dummy 6853 0
snd_seq_oss 29633 0
snd_seq_midi_event 9921 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 44913 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 9933 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 37441 0
snd_mixer_oss 16577 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 61637 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 21065 3 snd_rtctimer,snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 11337 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep 10309 1 snd_hda_intel
snd 44517 19
snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
soundcore 9633 2 snd
pcspkr 6592 0
========================================
What is missing is the midi module, I think. I just don't see it.
Perhaps I need to manually add this in? If so, how is this done?
Thanks-
Dan
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