Re: external midi on SB16

1999-03-11 Thread Will Lowe
> Have you tried playmidi -e ??? Yup. I get nothing. But I _can_ play to hte external midi port in Windows95. > > > > > OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130 > > Load type: Driver compiled into kernel > > Kernel: Linux gondolin 2.2.1 #4 Sun Feb 14 18:21:24 EST 1999 i586 > > Config options: 0 > > > > Inst

Re: external midi on SB16

1999-03-11 Thread Shao Zhang
Will Lowe wrote: > Has anyone had any luck connecting an external midi device (say, a tone > generator) to the midi port on an SB16? I've got the card working ok, > but I can't get any programs to send output to it. Sending > anything to /dev/sequencer or /dev/sequencer2 results in the crappy SB

Re: external midi on SB16

1999-03-11 Thread Will Lowe
> playmidi -e blues.mid Doing this doesn't work. I just don't get any sound. Everything's plugged in, turned on, and works fine from windows. > if You automatically `postinstall` the 'sfxload-command' > this will not work. I installed the debian playmidi package. I don't think it asked me if

Re: external midi on SB16

1999-03-11 Thread Peter Berlau
Hi Will, [..] You can direct the output to a external midi port with playmidi e.g. playmidi -e blues.mid this direct the output to the external midi device. Note: if You automatically `postinstall` the 'sfxload-command' this will not work. -- Peter Berlau [EMAIL PROTECTED]

external midi on SB16

1999-03-11 Thread Will Lowe
Has anyone had any luck connecting an external midi device (say, a tone generator) to the midi port on an SB16? I've got the card working ok, but I can't get any programs to send output to it. Sending anything to /dev/sequencer or /dev/sequencer2 results in the crappy SB FM midi synthesis, rathe