On Saturday 11 September 2004 10:33 am, Danilo Horta wrote: > When i try to play some mid file as a simple user on kmid, it shows > "Player :: There are no midi ports !". I can play anything else but > midi. So i tried "ls -la mid" and it shows
> Seens to be correctly, right? any help? > > I'm using Debian Testing and i have ALSA configured properly. You answered the wrong question. I have a /dev/sda15 but that doesn't mean I have anything on the other side of it to do anything useful. (I don't.) ->ls -la /dev/sda15 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 15 Dec 31 2003 /dev/sda15 Whether you have anything useful on the other side of any ports you have, or even whether you have any ports at all, is entirely dependant on what hardware you have in the box. The vast majority of common, cheap soundcards out there do not have any MIDI capability, and in order to play MIDI on them, you must use a software synth like QSynth to translate MIDI data into an audio stream playable on the card. The SB PCI series, the Ensoniq AudioPCI series, the on-board Intel and VIA chips and many, many others fall into this category. To find out what ports you have, install pmidi (the package is called "pmidi") and then run pmidi -l from a command line. On my box, with a Sound Blaster Live!, I have lots of ports. 64:0 is the external joystick port MIDI interface, and 65:* are the on-board hardware synth. ->pmidi -l Port Client name Port name 64:0 EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART) - Rawmi EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART) 65:0 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 0 65:1 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 1 65:2 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 2 65:3 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 3 Anyway, since KMid reports no ports, I expect you'll find pmidi -l doesn't return anything. In that case, the most probable outcome is that your only choice is to run something like QSynth. (You'll also need to acquire a soundfont for it. There are none currently available that meet anyone's guidelines for free redistribution, so you'll have to find one on the web for yourself and download it independently.) If you need more help, probably take it off-list. I haven't had much time to read this list lately, but I have managed to wade through my inbox almost every day. -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
