Nigel Henry wrote: > 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:~$ Thanks again. And yes I have checked /proc/asound/card0/wavetableD1 and it shows a font loaded. And the entries look sensible, although I woul like to know where this is documented apart from the sources. I did grep around in the alsa driver sources, but did not find anything very helpful at a first glance. > 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 did try something like that yesterday, but it seemed not to want to run because of the problems :-( > 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. I have not used Kmid, but I have used many other midi players without problems on this machine in the past. So I know this can all work reliably and well. I found another thread with someone experiencing this "just one note" problem, but the thread just seemed to end without any conclusion, at least in the archives... When I run aplaymidi --port 17:0 haydn_allegro.midi it plays just the one note and then hangs: At the same time /proc/asound/seq/queues gives queue 0: [aplaymidi] owned by client : 128 lock status : Locked queued time events : 0 queued tick events : 401 timer state : Running timer PPQ : 384 current tempo : 833333 current BPM : 72 current time : 0.000000000 s current tick : 0 so it looks indeed as if the first event gets through, but then nothing else. Running aplaymidi --port 17:0 haydn_allegro.midi under strace shows that the last call (in the parent thread) is ioctl(3, SNDRV_SEQ_IOCTL_SET_CLIENT_POOL, 0xbf8f1130) = 0 Can anyone throw any light on this, or direct me to where this state is documented? Thanks for the help so far. Perhaps this should be a new thread for "only one note..." ? A Lawrence ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
