gmod and xmp, cannot open /dev/sequencer !

gmod and xmp, cannot open /dev/sequencer !

[Alexis DOMJAN]

Hello,

I have an AWE32 properly configured. I can play the midi files using 
the wavetable without any problem. However if I try to use gmod or xmp
modules players they cannot open /dev/sequencer. However the device
can be opened with drvmidi to play the midi files. Exactly it says:

/dev/sequencer: no such device or address

But if I do something like echo test > /dev/sequencer I got no error!

Can someone help with this please ?


Thanks in advance
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Alexis Domjan <adomjan@igaia.ch>

Re: gmod and xmp, cannot open /dev/sequencer !

[Alamais]

Alexis DOMJAN wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have an AWE32 properly configured. I can play the midi files using
> the wavetable without any problem. However if I try to use gmod or xmp
> modules players they cannot open /dev/sequencer. However the device
> can be opened with drvmidi to play the midi files. Exactly it says:
> ...

mod,xm,s3m,etc files include their own samples, 
and [do not/should not] use the midi sequencer. 
The players should be trying to open /dev/dsp, 
or whatever the AWE32 uses for wave audio.

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Re: gmod and xmp, cannot open /dev/sequencer !

[Tuukka Toivonen]

On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Alamais wrote:

>mod,xm,s3m,etc files include their own samples, 
>and [do not/should not] use the midi sequencer. 

I don't know if awe drivers support it (but I assume they do) -- but at
least with GUS this is completely wrong way to play modules. Using /dev/dsp
eats CPU time since the processor has to mix the samples. With proper sound
card (ie. GUS) the sample are downloaded to the soundcard memory and the
player just says "play this sample with this pitch". Eats practically 0%
CPU time. And this is where to use /dev/sequencer.

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Re: gmod and xmp, cannot open /dev/sequencer !

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 12:19:57PM +0300, Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Alamais wrote:
> >mod,xm,s3m,etc files include their own samples, 
> >and [do not/should not] use the midi sequencer. 
> 
> I don't know if awe drivers support it (but I assume they do) -- but at
> least with GUS this is completely wrong way to play modules. Using /dev/dsp
> eats CPU time since the processor has to mix the samples. With proper sound
> card (ie. GUS) the sample are downloaded to the soundcard memory and the
> player just says "play this sample with this pitch". Eats practically 0%
> CPU time. And this is where to use /dev/sequencer.

That's a loaded statement if ever there was one. If the GUS was
such a great sound card, surely Gravis would still be in business? :-)



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Re: gmod and xmp, cannot open /dev/sequencer !

[Tuukka Toivonen]

On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

>That's a loaded statement if ever there was one. If the GUS was
>such a great sound card, surely Gravis would still be in business? :-)

Nope. Very often in business the great inventions lose and poor technology
wins. See what has happened to M$ (vs. OS/2, for example). See what
happened to Amiga. Still another example I've heard was Beta vs. VHS
videorecorders. Beta system was superior -- and guess which one we nowadays
use? VHS.

Rather the poor technology tends to win. I hope this will change with free
world, ie. Linux.

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