Marc Shapiro wrote:
I am trying to play MIDI files on my Debian box. I have installed playmidi, but can not get it to work. It gives me the following error:mns@xander:~/daisy$ playmidi FirstNoel.midPlaymidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 by Takashi IwaiThis is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.For details please see the file COPYING. open /dev/sequencer: No such device but, when I take a look in /dev, I see: crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 1 Jul 12 23:08 sequencerI am in the audio group, so it does not seem to be a permissions thing. Is there something else that I am missing?Also, is there a package that will allow me to convert a MIDI file to .wav format so that I can burn it to CD with XCDRoast?Marc
Is the module loaded? Run lsmod | grep snd Example from my machine: debian:/home/rat# lsmod | grep snd snd-seq-oss 31104 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 3712 0 (autoclean) [snd-seq-oss] snd-seq 41744 2 (autoclean) [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-intel8x0 21004 1 snd-ac97-codec 56368 0 [snd-intel8x0] snd-pcm-oss 38408 0 (unused) snd-mixer-oss 13816 1 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-pcm 64416 0 [snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm-oss] snd-timer 16900 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] gameport 1436 0 [snd-intel8x0] snd-mpu401-uart 4064 0 [snd-intel8x0] snd-rawmidi 14976 0 [snd-mpu401-uart] snd-seq-device 4308 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi]snd 37380 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device] snd-page-alloc 5324 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-intel8x0 snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd]
soundcore 3876 6 [snd] Robin