[expert] 'Hoary old' Q: /dev/sequencer

[R.J.Peach]

Hello.
This lot is to do with finding a way to introduce a valid /dev/sequencer
socket on MDK 8.2

The sound/audio subsystem is as per original installation.

Under W2K SP3 , one needs to introduce a special driver to get
the (on board) sound working, which (to me) implies that the
sound system has something `funny' about it ( getting technical now eh? )

The (on board) purports to be ep 1370 and the driver loaded
is i_810_audio.
So far so good.  Timidity & Kmid work OK - well, a bit glitchy
but i have never bothered about that, since I have (so far)
only used 'em to play back MIDI files generated from ABC
scripts. The actual music eventually coming planks with
bits of string fastened to them ;=)
I assume that Kmid (like timidity) is doing the MIDI - >wav
conversion in software BTW, which would explain the 'glitches' i think.

I have quite recently though started to look at things like 
rosegarden, which (as I expect is true of most more recent MIDI
software) DOES require /dev/sequencer

Quite a lot of the multimedia stuff has never worked on my  Linux
side because of the 'can't' find /dev/sequencer  socket, which judging
by the mail archive is a very common problem.

On this system , for ex, /dev/sequencer does not even exist, which
I gather means that either:

a.  The incorrect set of drivers is loaded.
b.  The driver loaded is correct but needs some additional 
configuration.
c.  The driver does not provide /dev/sequencer because the sound
hardware will not support it.

The documents in  the kernel source appear to support [c]
especially  as wav / mp3 playing work quite adequately which implies that
the driver IS `correct'.

If [c]  is the case, then no amount of adding things to modules.conf
or rebuilding bits of the kernel is going to sort it out, so I reckon that
the two options open are:

1.   Sack the on-board sound & put in something that works instead.
2.   Find a way of introducing an extra bit of software that will provide
a /dev/sequencer socket - which would at least get it working
after a fashion ..

Anybody got any useful ideas on this?  - 'twould be nice to get this
part of linux working here finally!

Regards,  RJP





 
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Re: [expert] test message - please don't read...

[\"R.J.Peach (personal mail)\"]

On 29 Aug 02 2:20 pm, Mark Weaver wrote:
> I told you not to read this! now certain precious parts of your anatomy
> are going to fall off.

Thank you for that  -  i had not recieved any crap yet today,
- now i have  :)


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Re: [expert] ping, ping, doesn't ping

[R.J.Peach (personal mail)]

On 03,Apr/01 22:40, David C. Hoos, Sr. wrote:

all this lot sounds suspiciously familiar.

I too originally had a working LAN with a W2K machine talking to this 
Mandrake box using Samba.

Then along came the hard disc failure & rebuild from CD backups.

I used a Mandrake re-install to alter my disk partitioning,and CAREFULLY
put back qmail,KDE_2_1 et. al.

cat /proc/ioports
---

-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
02f8-02ff : serial(auto)
0300-031f : NE2000 <---  OK
0376-0376 : ide1
03c0-03df : vga+
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
d000-d007 : ide0
d008-d00f : ide1
dc00-dcbe : aic7xxx
e000-e03f : es1370

cat /proc/interrupts 
-
   CPU0   
  0:9206323  XT-PIC  timer
  1:  71762  XT-PIC  keyboard
  2:  0  XT-PIC  cascade
  3:178  XT-PIC  serial
  8:  1  XT-PIC  rtc
  9:  0  XT-PIC  NE2000   .