[Alsa-user] Midi not working on SB Live 5.1 digital

[Tero Knuutila]

Hello list!

I have SB Live 5.1 digital and I'm using driver compiled into kernel. Sound 
is functioning, I can listen to mp3 with xmms and the KDE startup sound 
works also.

Then the tricky part: I can listen midi only with timidity and/or 
Fluidsynth. I also tried to read through existing answers on this mailing 
list but most of them talk about modules.

I have enabled following on kernel/Sound:

<*> Advanced Linux Sound Architecture                 &#9474; &#9474;
  <*>   Sequencer support                               &#9474; &#9474;
   [*]   OSS API emulation                               &#9474; &#9474;
  <*>     OSS Mixer API                                 &#9474; &#9474;
  <*>     OSS PCM (digital audio) API                   &#9474; &#9474;
 [*]     OSS Sequencer API
and from Sound /PCI:

<*> EMU10K1 (SB Live! & Audigy, E-mu APS)

I have tested my system with pmidi and everything seems to be fine, but I 
can't hear anything. I am SURE that  midi is not muted. Here's a listing 
with pmidi -l :

Port     Client name                       Port name
64:0     Rawmidi 0 - EMU10K1 MPU-401 (U    EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART)
65:0     Emu10k1 WaveTable                 Emu10k1 Port 0
65:1     Emu10k1 WaveTable                 Emu10k1 Port 1
65:2     Emu10k1 WaveTable                 Emu10k1 Port 2
65:3     Emu10k1 WaveTable                 Emu10k1 Port 3
I have installed AWEtools (or something like that). And when I try to load 
soundfont with sfxload I get:
sfxload /etc/midi/CT4MGM.SF2
/dev/sequencer: No such device or address

It doesn't help if I give device /dev/sequencer2, it gives same error.
I have Gentoo system with devfs kernel option.
So finally some questions: Is it possible to get MIDI working with SB Live 
5.1? If I can't use SB midi synth directly is there a way to use aconnect / 
FluidSynth combination so midi programs (Noteedit for example) won't notice 
difference.
I am willing to try every trick, I want midi ! :-)

With best regards,
  Tero Knuutila
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