From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jacek M. Holeczek" Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:56:43 +0000 Subject: Re: ESS ES1689 OSS/Free help needed Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org Hi, As I still cannot get Hannu's sound driver, I need to stick to what exists. > playmidi for FM synth is broken as shipped in 5.2; there are updated > RPMS available at ftp://ftp.redhat.com/home/notting/playmidi/; Thanks. I downloaded the playmidi and now the OPL3 works ( that is what I expect is used when I do "playmidi -f" ). > > 7. "playmidi -e (-D0) something.mid" ( uart401+WaveTable ? ) > > doesn't work at all - the program does something ( you can see > > that it "plays" if you use the "-r" flag ), but there is no > > single sound to be heard Sorry, but this behaves the same way. The /dev/sndstat says it finds a Midi device: "0: ESS 1688" which is not bad ( it should actualy say 1868, as the ES1869 has a shared interrupt, too ), but I still do not get any sound from it. I expect that in this case ( "playmidi -e -D0" ) it should automatically play using the uart401 + the WaveTable ( Wave Blaster compatible using AdMOS QS1000 + AdMOS QS1001A ) which I do have. Or maybe I should somehow initialize the uart401/WaveTable myself ? Problems with .au and .wav files remain. In the meantime I tried to play .au file using sox, but the result was pure ( a much better result one gets using "cat" ), then I tried to play .wav files using sox, but the results were also pure - I have the filling that 8bit samples are quite ok, but 16bit samples are wrong ( the ES1869 is 16bit, compatible with 8bit SB/Pro ). Recording sound using sox gives also pure results ( much better results are there if one uses "dd" ). Samples recorded with sox can be played with win95, but the pure quality remains. In all cases above ( to play and record ) sox uses /dev/dsp, so maybe there is a problem somewhere there ( I cannot "cat" .wav to /dev/dsp ). Thanks in advance, Jacek.