HELP! This is driving me completely nuts!
I've been using versions of alsa with different installs of linux for years and have never run into a problem like this before: I can't seem to get the sequencer (external midi) to work with alsa on my mandrake 9.2 installation. So far, this is what I've done:
1. Grabbed the mandrake kernel source and installed,
2. Grabbed the various alsa packages, compiled.
3. Gone so far (to ensure that I really do have the right modules) to delete the entire /lib/modules/*mdk/kernel/sound directory and reinstalled the alsa stuff.
4. run the ./snddevices script ... although this is probably not necessary.
5. Double checked to see that my ./configure did set --with-sequencer=yes.
6. Pulled out several locks of hair and tried the normal incantations :)
My /etc/modules.conf has the following:
# ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-ens1371 # module options should go here # OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 es1371 # card #1 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
Audio output works fine.
It appears that I do have raw midi. Using 'playmidi' to play a midi file to my keyboard works, but it doesn't sound all that great.
Running pmidi shows that only the raw ports are available:
bob$ pmidi -v pmidi-1.6.0
pmidi -l Port Client name Port name 64:0 ES1371 - Rawmidi 0 ES1371
Checking a few of the proc messages:
bob$ cat /proc/asound/seq/clients Client info cur clients : 3 peak clients : 4 max clients : 192
Client 0 : "System" [Kernel]
Port 0 : "Timer" (Rwe-)
Port 1 : "Announce" (R-e-)
Connecting To: 63:0
Client 63 : "OSS sequencer" [Kernel]
Port 0 : "Receiver" (-we-)
Connected From: 0:1
Client 64 : "ES1371 - Rawmidi 0" [Kernel] >>>>> Note it says ES1371,
Port 0 : "ES1371" (RWeX) >>>>> not 'ENS1371' ?????I'm really quite out of ideas. I know the card works and I know that alsa works. I just can't this to work with mandrake 9.2!!!! Please help!
Thanks.
-- Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.kootenay.com/~bvdpoel
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