why no midi?

why no midi?

[qozmo x xx]

hey, i'm running redhat5.2 on my machine and i used sndconfig to
configure my soundblaster16 card.  everything that i've tested so far
works fine (it plays sound samples and records sound samples), with the
exception of playing midi.  i've tried calling playmidi with this
command:

playmidi filename.mid

maybe there are other options that i need in this command, but as far as
i could discern from reading the playmidi man page, this should play my
file (but i've been wrong before).
if i'm not wrong, and this command should play my midi file, what
possible problems could be causing this?  the card actually uses 2 DMA
settings under win95 and i just used the first of those when i set up
sound in linux, could this have anything to do with it?
hopin somebody can help me out,
qozmo

ps- yeah, i already read the entire sound-howto
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Re: why no midi?

[Darcy Parker]

did you do the following?
chmod a+rw midi*
if you didn't do this you should also do
chmod a+rw dsp*
chmod a+rw audio*
chmod a+rw mixer*
chmod a+rw sndstat
chmod a+rw sequencer
(as root or su of course)
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Darcy Parker                     
Mechanical Engineering           
Computer Aided Automation Option 
University of British Columbia      
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Re: why no midi?

[qozmo x xx]

On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 00:00:39 -0700 Darcy Parker <parkerd@home.com>
writes:
>did you do the following?
>chmod a+rw midi*
>if you didn't do this you should also do
>chmod a+rw dsp*
>chmod a+rw audio*
>chmod a+rw mixer*
>chmod a+rw sndstat
>chmod a+rw sequencer
>(as root or su of course)
>--

all of these files already had these permissions on them, but i tried it
anyway, and nothing changed.  is there any other reason that might be why
my midi stuff isn't working?
thanx again,
qozmo
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Re: why no midi?

[Bill Nottingham]

qozmo x xx (qozm0@juno.com) said: 
> all of these files already had these permissions on them, but i tried it
> anyway, and nothing changed.  is there any other reason that might be why
> my midi stuff isn't working?

playmidi as shipped in RH 5.2 is broken for FM synth; either upgrade
to a later release, or do:

cd /etc/midi
for foo in *; do ln -s midi/$foo ../$foo ; done

That should fix the problem.

Bill

Re: why no midi?

[qozmo x xx]

On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 22:05:26 -0400 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
writes:
>
>playmidi as shipped in RH 5.2 is broken for FM synth; either upgrade
>to a later release, or do:
>
>cd /etc/midi
>for foo in *; do ln -s midi/$foo ../$foo ; done
>
>That should fix the problem.
>
>Bill
>

ok, i did try that command, and it worked, now i can play midi.
what exactly did this command line do (and what is foo?)?
thanx for the help,
qozmo
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Re: why no midi?

[Bill Nottingham]

qozmo x xx (qozm0@juno.com) said: 
> >cd /etc/midi
> >for foo in *; do ln -s midi/$foo ../$foo ; done
> >
> >That should fix the problem.
> >
> >Bill
> >
> 
> ok, i did try that command, and it worked, now i can play midi.
> what exactly did this command line do (and what is foo?)?
> thanx for the help,

foo is just a variable name. Basically, it just makes symlinks
for some playmidi files (drums.o3/sb, std.o3/sb) from /etc
(where playmidi is incorrectly looking for them) into /etc/midi
(where they actually are). The correct fix is to build playmidi
with the proper paths, but this works.

Bill