Re: esssolo1 and midi

[Alexander Clouter <alexander.clouter@ic.ac.uk>]

On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Shao Zhang wrote:
>
> Hi,
>     I am using the esssolo1 for my laptop's soundcard, but I cannot get
>     the midi working. I read the source code and it seems to me that
>     /dev/midi is supported.
> 
>     But playmidi keeps trying /dev/sequence. any ideas?
> 
>     [17:56|pts/0]shao@gorilla % playmidi -D /dev/midi i-do.mid
>     lfeifei.mid lovepain.mid 
>     Playmidi 2.3 Copyright (C) 1994-1996 Nathan I. Laredo
>     This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>     For details please see the file COPYING.
>     open /dev/sequencer: No such device
> 
can you actually see /dev/sequencer?  If not you will need to create it
(with the mknod) command.  How I'm not sure but its probably in the
Sound-HOWTO or more likely to be in the linux kernel source code
documentation /usr/src/linux/Documentation/...etc...

Alex