Hi there.
Please read my comments below:

On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 08:15:03PM +0100, Frans Ketelaars wrote:
> In general, playmidi sends a MIDI file to the gameport of your soundcard;
> there is a special cable to connect to external MIDI equipment. 
> (See 'man playmidi' or just type 'playmidi').

Well, as far as I know, playmidi sends the MIDI file to the sequencer
device, which is usually /dev/sequencer. That device might be an
external MIDI sequencer connected through the gameport, or the
internal sequencer of the sound card...

> There are cards/chipsets with hardware wavetable or FM synthesizer 
> capabilities but yours does not AFAIK :(

No, I know it does...

> Even if your soundcard has some hardware capabilities these are not
> neccesarily supported.

Oh... Is the support still under development? Is it intended at all to
be supported?

> Kmidi (a standard KDE application) and Timidity can play MIDI files just 
> fine by using software emulation. HTH,

I know timidity... It's nice... But still I'd want the hardware
support to work... It's a shame to waste the CPU resources on software
emulation of what the hardware can do...

>     -Frans
> 
> Btw: your question to the list and my answer were received by me from the 
> mailing list :)

Oh... sorry then... It must have been the problem with my mail...

  Thank you, any further help appreciated,
  -- Tom

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