Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 12:42:49 -0500 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Joel Dinel <dinjo@touchtunes.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Playmidi & SBLive Message-ID: <3C5AD399.B6CAC07D@mitre.org> References: <20020201104449.A28042@sunder.touchtunes.com>
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Joel Dinel wrote: > > Before I start, I should specify that this is my very first attempt at playing > MIDI on FreeBSD. > > I've got an SBLive value, working fine on FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE. I can play MP3s, > WAVs and CDs without a hitch. When I try to play a MIDI file with playmidi, I > get this : > > [dinjo@sunder 316 midi]$ playmidi -f mm2Metal.mid > Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 by Takashi Iwai > This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. > For details please see the file COPYING. > open /dev/sequencer: Device not configured > [dinjo@sunder 317 midi]$ > > /dev/sequencer exists: > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 10 Jan 30 10:38 sequencer -> sequencer0 > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 30, 1 Jan 30 10:38 sequencer0 > > Dmesg reports my card as follows: > pcm0: <Creative EMU10K1> port 0xdc00-0xdc1f irq 10 at device 18.0 on pci0 > > My kernel has *only* this line regarding sound: > device pcm > > When installing my kernel, I have done this: > cd /dev > ./MAKEDEV snd0 > > When I built playmidi from ports, I chose option #5: > 5. SB AWE32 Synth > (The other 4 choices didn't make sense to me). > > Is there anything I am missing? I checked the archives for this mailing list, > and I couldn't find anything close to the problem I am experiencing. Simply > put, does the current PCM driver for FreeBSD support MIDI Playback? > > Please CC back to me as I am not subscribed to this list. I don't think FreeBSD supports the MIDI on the SBLive (or any MIDI for that matter in 4.x yet. If you want to play MIDI files, look into a program called timidity++ in the ports. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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