On Saturday 25 November 2006 19:52, you wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Saturday 25 November 2006 17:06, ael wrote: > >>I have a AWE64 card: > >> > >>kernel: isapnp: Card 'Creative SB AWE64 PnP' > > > > I don't know if I can be of much help, but looked back on my notes for > > various sound stuff on Sarge. One thing I seemed to have needed to do > > was to comment out with a "#" awe_wave in /etc/hotplug/blacklist.d . > > Also, and I know I'm using an Audigy2 Soundblaster card, using the > > emu10k1 driver, but I had to add "snd-emu10k1-synth" to /etc/modules so > > that I could load soundfonts. > > > > I'm clutching at straws here, but the Alsa Soundcard Matrix shows both > > "SB16" and "Emu8000" listed for these AWE cards, > > and /lib/modules/2.6.8-2-386/kernel/sound/isa/sb shows a > > "snd-emu8000-synth.ko" . It might be worth modprobing snd-emu8000-synth > > and see if you can load soundfonts after doing so. If it works you can > > add the module to /etc/modules , as I have had to do with my > > snd-emu10k1-synth module. > > Thanks for the reply. As you will see from my second message which > crossed with your reply, you were on the right lines. It looks as if I > can now load sound fonts and it was because of these modules with "-" in > their names which I had missed. > > This puts me back where I was yesterday: asfxload appears to load sound > fonts (at least it does not complain), but aplaymidi only produces the > first note (evidence that at least part of the font really was loaded, I > guess) before appearing to livelock. > > A Lawrence Hi. You can check out if the soundfont is loaded with. cat /proc/asound/card0/wavetableD1 (just change the card # if your card is different) . For example mine shows for a 4MB soundfont from the soundcards cdrom. djmons@debian:~$ cat /proc/asound/card0/wavetableD1 Device: Emu10k1 Ports: 4 Addresses: 65:0 65:1 65:2 65:3 Use Counter: 0 Max Voices: 64 Allocated Voices: 0 Memory Size: 134217728 Memory Available: 130191678 Allocated Blocks: 489 SoundFonts: 1 Instruments: 3560 Samples: 488 Locked Instruments: 3560 Locked Samples: 488 djmons@debian:~$ It may be also worth downloading Qsynth. You can load your soundfont onto that, but I think you'd have to use Kmid to play it through Qsynth. I see also that I have TiMidity on Sarge, and that plays midi fine, without involving the soundcards hardware synth, and incidentally doesn't crash, which I've found Kmid often does. Nigel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
