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Date:      Fri, 1 Feb 2002 12:22:22 -0600 (CST)
From:      John Utz <john@utzweb.net>
To:        Joel Dinel <dinjo@touchtunes.com>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Playmidi & SBLive
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0202011220170.19976-100000@jupiter.linuxengine.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020201104449.A28042@sunder.touchtunes.com>

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i am unaware of any midi functionality in FreeBSD, per se.

various patches have been made, but never integrated.

you could use timidity. it's a userland midi player.

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, 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.
> 
> THanks!
> 
> 

-- 

John L. Utz III
john@utzweb.net

Idiocy is the Impulse Function in the Convolution of Life


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