I can't get midi files to play, except in sndconfig. See other responses
below. I don't know what most of this means. Thanks for your help.
On Friday 10 August 2001 2:36, Frans Ketelaars wrote:
> "Adams, Jamie" wrote:
> > It seems odd that you are only getting 'snippets' of sound. Is it
> > possible that there is an IRQ or DMA conflict somewhere?
>
> <snip>
>
> Yes, I think that might well be the case. Btw, we're talking about
> an old ISA SB16, and not the relatively new SB16 PCI I think...
It's definitely an old ISA card.
>
> The Creative Labs names sometimes cause confusion :)
>
> The driver seems to be loaded ('snippets' of sound); check with
> '/sbin/lsmod | grep sb' .
Here's what I get
sb 7136 1
sb_lib 33120 0 [sb]
uart401 6224 0 [sb_lib]
sound 54256 1 [sb_lib uart401]
soundcore 3504 5 [sb_lib sound]
usb-ohci 14496 0 (unused)
usbcore 47248 1 [usb-ohci]
>
> Use 'cat /proc/interrupts'
Here's what I get
CPU0
0: 288781 XT-PIC timer
1: 4523 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 0 XT-PIC soundblaster
9: 5973 XT-PIC usb-ohci, eth0
12: 216728 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
14: 20301 XT-PIC ide0
15: 498 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
ERR: 0
and 'cat /proc/dma' to check for IRQ and
> DMA problems.
and here's what I get there.
1: SoundBlaster8
4: cascade
5: SoundBlaster16
>
> In your first mail you said: 'The midi track played fine' ,
> referring to 'sndconfig'. Can you now play a midi file ?
>
> -Frans
