playmidi doesn't see /dev/sequencer
Hi all,
I have a problem: playmidi doesn't seem to find /dev/sequencer, even
if it *is* there! (Yes, I am in the audio group.)
ballabio:~/Desktop/Downloads:-) playmidi dies_irae.mid
Playmidi 2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-1997 Nathan I. Laredo, AWE32 by
Takashi Iwai
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details please see the file COPYING.
open /dev/sequencer: No such device
ballabio:~/Desktop/Downloads:-) ls -l /dev/seq*
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 1 Feb 21 16:53 /dev/sequencer
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 8 Feb 21 16:53 /dev/sequencer2
I'm running Sarge with the 2.6 kernel and alsa, and I have loaded the
snd-seq-oss module (without it, /dev/sequencer didn't exist indeed):
ballabio:~/Desktop/Downloads:-) lsmod | grep snd
snd_seq_midi 8576 0
snd_intel8x0 36460 2
snd_ac97_codec 70020 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 55048 0
snd_mixer_oss 20096 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 98728 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 11752 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
gameport 4704 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart 7968 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi 25156 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_oss 34656 0
snd_seq_device 8200 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_oss
snd_seq_midi_event 7680 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 53872 5
snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 25668 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd 57156 15
snd_seq_midi,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_device,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq,snd_timer
soundcore 10336 2 snd
ballabio:~/Desktop/Downloads:-) lspci | grep audio
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM
AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
I can't understand why it isn't working. I'd really appreciate your
help.
I tried timidity, but as it does mixing in software, it's too slow to
play a few midi files of mine (orchestral scores) acceptably.
Gerardo Ballabio
P.S. please Cc: me, I'm not subscribed.
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