On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 14:17:37 +0000
Bruce Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can't get alsa to use the midi interface to a soundblaster 512. I
> seem to have all the right modules loaded but playmid reports no
> playback device and pmidi just plays in silence. alsamixer/amixer show
> no synth device, which means I can't unmute it if it is there.
>
> I used version 0.5.12a, compiled for the emu10k1 driver with sequencer
> support but no isapnp. All the right devices have been created and made
> members of audio. I added this to modules.conf:
>
> ========================================
> # ALSA native device support
> alias char-major-116 snd
> options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_gid=29
> alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1
>
> # OSS/Free setup
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
> ========================================
>
> And /proc/asound/sndstat shows this:
>
> ========================================
> Sound Driver:3.8.2-980706 (ALSA v0.5.12a emulation code)
> Kernel: Linux phaistos 2.4.17 #8 Sun Mar 10 02:02:52 GMT 2002 i686
> Config options: 0
>
> Installed drivers:
> Type 10: ALSA emulation
>
> Card config:
> Sound Blaster Live! at 0xd000, irq 12
>
> Audio devices:
> 0: EMU10K1 (DUPLEX)
>
> Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
>
> Midi devices:
> 0: EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART)
>
> Timers:
> 7: system timer
> ========================================
>
> Am I missing something simple? Does the 512 need soundfonts loaded like
> the AWE32?
Yes ;) Search the archive (though there have been problems searching the
ALSA archives).
-Frans
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