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I know PCI soundcard MIDI daughterboards are old-school 20th century things, but I thought I'd post my recipe for getting one to work for anyone else who might want to. In my case I mainly wanted MIDI support for old DOS game music under dosbox, and I'd rather use hardware synth than lose memory (sblive wavetable) or CPU (timidity).
Soundcard: Turtle Beach Santa Cruz PCI
# lspci -vn
03:06.0 0401: 1013:6003 (rev 01)
Subsystem: 5053:3357
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21
Memory at febff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Memory at fea00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: Sound Fusion CS46xx
Kernel modules: snd-cs46xx
Wavetable daughtercard attached to TBSC:
Yamaha DB50XG
4MB wavetable in ROM onboard
Kernel: x86_64 2.6.37-pf2
Modules loaded:
> lsmod| grep snd | cut -f1 -d' '
snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_dummy
snd_seq_oss
snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq
snd_hwdep
snd_pcm_oss
snd_cs46xx
gameport
snd_rawmidi
snd_seq_device
snd_ac97_codec
ac97_bus
snd_mixer_oss
snd_pcm
snd_timer
snd_page_alloc
snd
soundcore
Alsa versions:
> pacman -Q | grep alsa
alsa-firmware 1.0.23-1
alsa-lib 1.0.23-2
alsa-oss 1.0.17-1
alsa-plugins 1.0.23-2
alsa-utils 1.0.23-3
alsaplayer 0.99.81-1
Using alsamixer, unmute the control named "Video" and set its volume to 100%.
Check that the MIDI port is shown with "aplaymidi -l":
Port Client name Port name
14:0 Midi Through Midi Through Port-0
16:0 Sound Fusion CS46xx CS46XX
In /etc/profile :
export ALSA_OUTPUT_PORTS=16:0
As root, restart alsa to save levels:
# /etc/rc.d/alsa restart
Reboot.
Use aplaymidi to test: aplaymidi cavatina.mid
In your dosbox config file, after already enabling sound:
[midi]
mpu401=intelligent
device=alsa
midiconfig=16:0
I have a couple of other daugthercards this works with. I also have an old Diamond MX300 PCI (Aureal Vortex2) with a wavetable connector that might work using the snd-au8820 driver, but I haven't tried it yet.
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