Title: RE: [Alsa-user] emu10k1 midi failing. why?
clemens,
many thanks for your reply. indeed, a 0 volume mixer control (Music) was the culprate. your advice to check /proc/asound/card/wavetableD was *very* helpful in determining that the soundfount was actually being correctly installed. if you can believe it, i just hadn't actually stumbled on the alsa wiki pages, which obviously hold much gold.
anyhow, i (and every newbie out there) truly thank you for your dogged attention to the list.
hawkeye
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Clemens Ladisch
Sent: Wed 2/18/2004 12:21 AM
To: Hawkeye Parker
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] emu10k1 midi failing. why?
Hawkeye Parker wrote:
i'm trying to understand why and how my midi playback capabilities
are failing under ALSA. i'm trying to use my soundBlaster Live!
(EMU10K1) midi synth, but i hear nothing.
is there any way to tell *what* isn't working?
lsmod tells us the modules are loaded.
pmidi -l tells us the MIDI ports are there.
How did you run sfxload? Does it output any error message?
Did you play to one of the wavetable ports? (The MPU-401 is the
external port.)
Did you unmute and raise the volume of all relevant mixer controls?
Please look into the file /proc/asound/card?/wavetableD? to see if
sfxload worked (it should say something about memory and instruments).
Additionally, some instrument/samples should be locked while playing.
the Details page for this card on the Alsa site states:
- MIDI on SB live drive not working properly.
This relates to the second external MIDI port, not to the wavetable
synthesizer.
HTH
Clemens
