On Wednesday 19 November 2003 19:37, Gene Heskett wrote: >Greetings all;
Yeah, I know, its poor form to answer/comment on ones own messages, but more info below. >I've recently moved to a kernel-2.6.0-test9-mm4, which is getting >pretty close to final. The formerly OSS audio system has been >replaced with alsasound, and can be built right into the kernel, >which I have. > >Most of the audio functions are working, with the notable exception > of timidity. It goes thru the motions visually, but makes no > sound, and when its closed, it leaves a copy of itself using about > 75% of the cpu behind that can be found and killed. > >So whats the proceedure to make the midi synth work? > >I have no alsa installed other than whats in the kernel. The mixer >that comes up is kmix, from kde-3.1.1a. It apparently has no >sequencer or synth controls. I have since discovered that kmidi works, while kmid doesn't. Kmidi is a cpu hog though, taking about 80% of a 1400 mhz athlon, and skips a lot if other graphics are being drawn or copied. It also seems to miss out on some voices its own sample .mid files call for. Do I have a basic miss-understanding of the rolls of these two programs and timidity? -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
