Enabling MIDI output

sweiss · 2006-06-09 14:50:27

Hello.
I'd like to enable MIDI output to my card but I've no idea how to do so. Google doesn't seem to help much either, or maybe I just don't know what to google for. This is the output of lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 655 Host (rev 50)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS AGP Port (virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS964 [MuTIOL Media IO] (rev 36)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 01)
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (rev 0f)
00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 91)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)

And of `lsmod | grep snd`:

snd_emux_synth         28416  0
snd_seq_virmidi         5888  1 snd_emux_synth
snd_hwdep               6916  1 snd_emux_synth
snd_util_mem            3968  1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq_midi            6560  0
snd_seq_midi_emul       5632  1 snd_emux_synth
snd_rtctimer            3084  0
snd_mpu401_uart         6272  0
snd_rawmidi            17824  3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi,snd_mpu401_uart
rtc                    10036  1 snd_rtctimer
snd_intel8x0           26652  2
snd_ac97_codec         79392  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_ac97_bus            2688  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_oss            26240  0
snd_seq_midi_event      6400  3 snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                42064  8 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          6540  5 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            32032  0
snd_pcm                64516  3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              17284  3 snd_rtctimer,snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          7688  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss          14080  2 snd_pcm_oss
snd                    40036  16 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
soundcore               7520  2 snd

I'm using the Beyond kernel, for now.

Can you please tell me what I need to do to get MIDI output? If it helps, here's timidity's output when I try to play a .mid file:

Requested buffer size 32768, fragment size 8192
ALSA pcm 'default' set buffer size 32768, period size 4096 bytes
Playing Documents/Back_In_Black.mid
MIDI file: Documents/Back_In_Black.mid
Format: 1  Tracks: 22  Divisions: 384
Track name: main guitar
Track name: bass
Track name: vocal
Track name: work track
Track name: lead_guit
Track name: lo_lead
Track name: met_drum
Track name: voc -bu
Drum set 10 is undefined
No instrument mapped to tone bank 0, program 29 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to tone bank 0, program 30 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to tone bank 0, program 36 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to tone bank 0, program 48 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to tone bank 0, program 81 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to drum set 0, program 36 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to drum set 0, program 38 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to drum set 0, program 42 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to drum set 0, program 46 - this instrument will not be heard
No instrument mapped to drum set 0, program 49 - this instrument will not be heard
No pre-resampling cache hit

And I get no sound output.

Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.

mpie · 2006-06-09 14:55:40

you need to install a sound-fond , there are two choices in aur.

install them then edit /etc/timidity to point to them then it will work

sweiss · 2006-06-09 15:15:51

Do you know the package name? Can't seem to find it.

EDIT: Nevermind, got it. For those interested, it's called soundfont-sgm180

lumiwa · 2006-06-09 15:46:11

sweiss wrote:

Do you know the package name? Can't seem to find it.
EDIT: Nevermind, got it. For those interested, it's called soundfont-sgm180

One is:
soundfont-sgm180 1.5-1

Search for soundfont

sweiss · 2006-06-09 18:01:05

Ok, so timidity works now. I can't seem to be able to use Rosegarden, however. Is it something different?

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#1 2006-06-09 14:50:27

Enabling MIDI output

#2 2006-06-09 14:55:40

Re: Enabling MIDI output

#3 2006-06-09 15:15:51

Re: Enabling MIDI output

#4 2006-06-09 15:46:11

Re: Enabling MIDI output

#5 2006-06-09 18:01:05

Re: Enabling MIDI output

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