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? <g>) 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 -- RJP Mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> || <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RJP Web <http://sedric.co.uk>. || <http://www.apum26.dsl.pipex.com>
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