Re: music maker

[Stephen Turner <sturner@myrealbox.com>]

On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 23:36, Roy Pluschke wrote:
> On January 28, 2004 09:12 am, Stephen Turner wrote:
> 
> > Hi R.J.P,
> >
> > I got the message:-
> >
> > midia.cfg no such file or directory
> >
> > timidity can't read any configuration file
> >
> > pleae check /etc/timidity.cfg
> >
> > I have alsa installed. I shall read the noteedit website in the
> > meantime.
> >
> 
> It seems that in testing/unstable the timidity-patches are missing, perhaps 
> there was some licencing issue.
> 
> I installed timidity a long time ago -- probably on Ham. At that time the 
> patches that came with timidity weren't very good so I installed the 
> "eawpats" myself. They are available here 
> 
> http://www.stardate.bc.ca/eawpatches/eawpats12_full.rar
> 
> You will need to "unrar" them (apt-get install unrar)
> 
> I placed them in /usr/share/timidity/eawpats/
> 
> my timidity.cfg file looks as follows
> 
> # start
> dir /usr/share/timidity/eawpats/
> source gravis.cfg
> source gsdrums.cfg
> source gssfx.cfg
> source xgmap2.cfg
> # end
> 
> That should get you running :)
> 
> R.J.P.
Hi R.J.P,

Ok. thanks. but i install the unrar. tried unrar eaqpats12_fullxyz, but
i get a huge list of options. i tried -e -y but i keep getting the list
of options. This being the first i have even heard of unrar, what should
i do next?

Thanks again.