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saciel

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2006-07-30

Posts: 153

can't get MIDI output running

Hi there,

I was trying to run Guitar Pro 5 through wine. When I couldn't  manage to get sound output, I realized that I don't have any MIDI output at all (i.e. the problem is not wine-specific).

So I checked on http://www.midi-howto.com/ and tried ot follow the tutorial there. I probably should have the necessary alsa packages - but acutally there is no 'alsa-drivers' on the Arch-repositoriers and I could not compile the latest drivers from the alsa website. But as wav-sound is working fine, I assume that I have the drivers I need.

I made all entries at the /etc/modules.conf that the alsa website proposed for my soundcard (Intel OnBoard chipset using intel8x0m). Then I tried to modprobe the following modules by hand:

snd-seq
snd-seq-midi
snd-seq-midi-event

This creates the device files /dev/sound/sequencer[1,2] and the corresponding symlinks /dev/sequencer[1,2] but when a programm tries to use them or when i try to 'cat' them I always just get

/dev/sound/sequencer: No such device

Does anybody have an idea where the probleme originates and how I might solve it?

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Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: can't get MIDI output running

Try loading snd_seq_oss

SiD

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2006-09-21

Posts: 729

Re: can't get MIDI output running

if the onboard soundchip is not able to play midi (most onboard sound hardware can't play midi) you have to use a midi-to-wav converter like Timidity++

edit:
I see you are from Germany, so have a look at the german wiki
http://wiki.archlinux.de/?title=Kategorie:Sound

Last edited by SiD (2007-02-09 09:20:39)