Fw: Playing MIDI files

2000-08-21 Thread William Smith
> To: Debian Users Mailing List (E-mail) > Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 2:14 PM > Subject: Re: Playing MIDI files > > > > On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 09:02:29AM -0400, William Smith wrote: > > > > > I've had similar problems playing midi files (SoundBlaster AWE64

RE: Playing MIDI files

2000-08-21 Thread William Smith
I've had similar problems playing midi files (SoundBlaster AWE64 PnP). I can play .au and .wav files fine and I can use timidity to play a .mid file but when I try running playmidi I get "No playback device set. Aborting" In /dev there is MAKEDEV file, if you sh ./MAKEDEV it will create all t

Re: setup SoundBlaster AWE64 on potato

2000-08-17 Thread William Smith
Can't really help you with the 'Potato' specific aspects but I have finally got my AWE64 PnP card working under 'slink' (2.2.12) with some help from Debian Users (well done Krzys & Hans!) Let me know if you think my experiences can be of any help. Bill - Original Message - From: John Rei

Re: Transferring files between a windows machine and a Debian Linux machine

2000-08-09 Thread William Smith
I've set up FTP on my WinNT laptop using Microsofts peer web services and I use Netscape on my linux box to browse files etc. (or just ftp them across).

RE: SB AWE64 PnP installation on slink 2.2.12

2000-08-09 Thread William Smith
21:29 To: William Smith; Debian-User (E-mail) Subject: Re: SB AWE64 PnP installation on slink 2.2.12 This is the ISA SB64AWE, I suppose, so did you do the isapnp setup routine (pnpdump, editing /etc/isapnp.conf, running isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf)? The two modules that should be loaded are sound a

SB AWE64 PnP installation on slink 2.2.12

2000-08-08 Thread William Smith
I've been trying to get my SoundBlaster AWE64 PnP card to work with slink 2.2.12. I've tried following "Linux Kernel HOWTO", "Linux Sound HOWTO: Installation", "Sound Blaster AWE32/64 HOWTO" but without much luck. I've rebuilt the kernel okay with OSS and with sound as a loadable module and then

Re: installing MS PS/2 mouse Debian Linux2.1

2000-07-19 Thread William Smith
Hey it worked - thanks Ron! (/dev/psaux that is) Screen size is all a bit screwed up but I'll work on that one! Thanks again. Bill > === > William Smith Office: +44 1753 550088 > Solution Engineer Home: +44 1501 785511 &

installing MS PS/2 mouse Debian Linux2.1

2000-07-19 Thread William Smith
After installing Debian Linux2.1 I tried installing X11 but get an error : "Fatal server error: Cannot open mouse (Operation not supported by device)" there is no /dev/mouse device installed and when I try using modconf to install an MS Bus Mouse I get an error : "/lib/modules/2.2.12/misc/msbus