Please note I have started another tread re timidity and rosegarden4.
It has nothing to do with this one (different machine), and largely sussed.
> The timidity in debian is supposed to have working alsa support. Heck, I use
> it... It is supposed to have both alsa output driver support (play to an
> alsa device), and alsa *sequencer* support (which is what -iA enables).
>
> Debian timidity alsa-sequencing by default uses -iA -B2,8 -Os as
> paramenters. It is controlled by /etc/default/timidity and
> /etc/init.d/timidity.
I'll confess, at this stage, I have googled so much and tried so many
things that I am really rather tired, confused and frustrated and my
poor old brain is just about frazzled !
So, I started again.
aptitude remove timidity
and, to be sure to be sure, as root:
find . -name timidity* -exec rm {} \;
then
aptitude install timidity
then
timidity /tmp/sweetness.of.mary.mid
-su: /usr/local/bin/timidity: No such file or directory
so
/usr/bin/timidity /tmp/sweetness.of.mary.mid
####################################################################
Playing /tmp/sweetness.of.mary.mid
MIDI file: /tmp/sweetness.of.mary.mid
Format: 0 Tracks: 1 Divisions: 480
Sequence: Sweetness of Mary, The
Text: C:Joan McDonald Boes
Text: S:Aly Bain (from a TV programme)
Text: Z:Nigel Gatherer
Text: F:http://www.nigelgatherer.com/tunes/abc/abc6/sweetm.abc. 2005-09-20
07:15:24 UT
Instrument `Tone_000/000_Acoustic_Grand_Piano.pat' can't be found.
Couldn't load instrument Tone_000/000_Acoustic_Grand_Piano.pat (tone bank 0,
program 0)
Instrument `Tone_000/000_Acoustic_Grand_Piano.pat' can't be found.
No pre-resampling cache hit
####################################################################
it hangs and no sound.
So, I edit my /etc/timidity/timidity.cfg to read:
####################################################################
# Instrument configuration file for timidity
# $Id: timidity.cfg,v 1.5 2004/08/07 15:59:19 hmh Exp $
# You can change just about every option in TiMidity++ using
# This config file. Please refer to the timidity.cfg(5) manpage
# for more details
#
## I have tried playing with each of these lines, but that seems to
## make the situation worse - ie very poor quality :
#
## If you have a slow CPU, uncomment these:
#opt EFresamp=d #disable resampling
#opt EFvlpf=d #disable VLPF
#opt EFreverb=d #disable reverb
#opt EFchorus=d #disable chorus
#opt EFdelay=d #disable delay
#opt no-antialias #disable sample anti-aliasing
#opt EWPVSETOZ #disable all Midi Controls
#opt p32a #default to 32 voices with auto reduction
#opt s32kHz #default sample frequency to 32kHz
#opt fast-decay #fast decay notes
# By default, try to use the instrument patches from freepats:
# if I uncomment this line I get the error messages above
#source /etc/timidity/freepats.cfg
soundfont /uj/usr/joe/soundfonts/kawaistereogrand.sf2
# if I choose this one, I get an organ sound:
#soundfont /u/usr/joe/soundfonts/m3r_organs.sf2
####################################################################
Now, it does play, but it seems to gradually get slower and slower, to
the point where it grinds to a halt, vibrating continually and shakily
on the one note.
My snd modules I have reduced to:
####################################################################
snd_seq_oss 34656 0
snd_seq_midi 8576 0
snd_seq_midi_event 7680 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 53872 5 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_ens1371 24932 0
snd_rawmidi 25124 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_ens1371
snd_seq_device 8200 3 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi
snd_pcm_oss 55080 0
snd_mixer_oss 20096 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 98728 2 snd_ens1371,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 11752 1 snd_pcm
snd_timer 25732 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_ac97_codec 69988 1 snd_ens1371
snd 57156 12
snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq,snd_ens1371,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_ac97_codec
soundcore 10336 1 snd
gameport 4704 1 snd_ens1371
####################################################################
I only have one card in the machine, represented by the ens1371.
cat /proc/cpu:
####################################################################
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 5
model name : Pentium II (Deschutes)
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 300.775
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 mmx fxsr
bogomips : 591.87
####################################################################
I really would like to use alsa, under 2.6.
I could play Timidity fine under kernel 2.20, but not since I upgraded
to 2.6.
Thanks a lot.
Joe
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