RE: Playing MIDI files

[William Smith <WSmith@gensym.com>]

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
the device files for you (I think)

Bill


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Abraham Shulman [mailto:shulman@caltech.edu]
Sent: 20 August 2000 00:11
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Playing MIDI files


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.