Thanks for your suggestion.
I finally got things set up so that the timidity directory is in the
right place,
now I get a box labelled:
Netscape:subprocess diagnostics (stdout/stderr)
Couldn't open Linux dsp device
Couldn't open Linux dsp device
Couldn't open Linux dsp device
What do I do now?
Ken Wilson wrote:
>
> If you want the TIMID-DIR environment variable to be available to all
> users on your system, put these lines in /etc/profile
>
> TIMID-DIR=/usr/lib/netscape/usr/local/lib/timidity
> export TIMID-DIR
>
> If just you or a few users need it, put the same lines in everyone's
> .bash_profile file in their home directories instead of in /etc/profile.
>
> Ken Wilson
> First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is
> irrelevant
> (Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming')
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Murray Strome
> > Sent: Sunday, August 29, 1999 9:30 PM
> > To: LINUX Newbie; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [newbie] Sound Card and UMP (plus timidity) plug-in for
> > Netscape
> >
> <snip>
> >
> > Actually (and I don't really know how it got there), it is in
> > /usr/lib/netscape/usr/local/lib/timidity
> >
> > The instructions then say to set the TIMID-DIR environment variable to
> > the name of the alternative directory. I am not very
> > familiar with bash
> > (which is my shell) -- sort of the default for Mandrake, and I cannot
> > figure out how to do this.
> >
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