Walter Dnes schreef: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 12:20:05PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote > >>What is your MIDI setup (is MIDI currently running on your machine >>without reference to dosbox)? I should have ALSA MIDI and Timidity set > > > What the bleep have they done to Timidity??? It *USED* to work > out-of-the-the-box in previous versions. Now it's looking for some > "current" directory, and dies with an error. If I comment out the line > "source current/timidity.cfg" in /etc/timidity.cfg it does attempt to > play, but generates a ton of messages like... > > "No instrument mapped to tone bank 0, program 27 - this instrument will not > be heard" > > I *DID* RTFM the timidity and timidity.cfg and there's *NOTHING* about > "current/timidity.cfg"
Here's my /etc/timidity.cfg: # # 1. Change directory to patch directory # 2. Source current/timidity.cfg # # Current patch set will always be symlinked to current, so make sure that the # proper timidity.cfg is in there # # # - source /usr/share/timidity # - source ~/.timidity/current # - Make ~/.timidity/current point to the current patch set, or to whatever # the individual user sets # - If ~/.timidity/current isn't found, it will try # /usr/share/timidity/current # dir /usr/share/timidity dir ~/.timidity source current/timidity.cfg OK. I don't have a ~/.timidity, but /usr/share/timidity is there. As you found, there is no /current directory, but since this whole thing refers to patches, I can only assume that the /eawpatches folder-- which *is* present-- would be what is desired (but what about me, who doesn't have a bloody SoundBlaster? Do I need these patches? Can I use these patches? I don't know). The eawpatches folder does contain a timidity.cfg, further indicating that somebody simply forgot to change the name (either of the folder, to /current, or of the setting, to point to /eawpatches instead of /current). So since you can set the 'patch folder' yourself, I would suggest changing the setting to read source eawpatches/timidity.cfg and that looks like it would work. I know nothing about MIDI or Timidity, so I wouldn't know if it was working anyway; I only installed it because a game I was trying to install plays all the WAV files properly, but not the MIDI, and I thought it might help. However, a) my soundcard does have a Wavetable Synthesizer (so I shouldn't need to emulate Midi); b) I fixed ALSA, which was set up wrong (so the internal Midi should be working); and c) for all I know, it's a Wine/Cedega problem anyway, and nothing to do with ALSA or Timidity. The point being, we have now reached (and passed) the point where you know more about this than I do, but I hope I've been helpful in giving you a boost to a point where you can fix the remaining issues yourself :) . Holly > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
