Re: Playing MIDI files

[patrik@pedgr634.sn.umu.se (Patrik Magnusson)]

In article <E13QHlW-0000de-00@kurukshetra.caltech.edu>,
	shulman@caltech.edu (Michael Abraham Shulman) writes:
> Hi,
> 
> When I try to play MIDI files with `playmidi', I get the message
> 
> open /dev/sequencer: No such device
> 
> However, `ls -l /dev/sequencer' produces
> 
> crw-rw----   1 root     audio           0 Mar 28 16:29 /dev/sequencer
> 
> so I don't understand what's wrong.  Can anyone enlighten me?
> 
> Thanks.

Maybe your soundcard doesn't support hardware midi? In that case
you can use the 'timidity' package.

/Patrik Magnusson