Hi all, I'm trying to have midi working on my old computer. The chipset is a cmi8330 (isa pnp card). I can play wav or mp3 files, but not midi ones. When I try to play a midi file through GNU solfege, it complains that /dev/sequencer does not exist. I googled a lot to search for a solution, butwith no success. Below are all relevant informations, I think. Sorry for this long post, but I'm stuck and hope someone can help Thanks in advance, Denis ------------------------------ dmesg|grep -i pnp ----------------------------- pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... pnp: CMI8330 quirk - fixing interrupts and dma isapnp: Card 'CMI8330 Audio Adapter' isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly. pnp: Device 00:01.00 activated. pnp: Device 00:01.03 activated. ------------------------------------ /etc/modprobe.d/sound : ------------------------------------ # 1) there might be some useless things inside it, since I don't understand everything about it ! # 2) cmi8330 options come from the sound card information I got under Windows # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-cmi8330 # module options should go here options snd-cmi8330 wssdma=00 wssirq=7 wssport=0x530 sbport=0x220 sbirq=5 sbdma8=01 sbdma16=05 isapnp=0 # OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 # card #1 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss ------------------- lsmod output : -------------------- Module Size Used by rtc 6832 0 snd_seq_oss 19200 0 snd_seq_midi_event 3456 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 28144 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 3724 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd_pcm_oss 26176 0 snd_mixer_oss 9984 3 snd_pcm_oss snd_cmi8330 6792 2 snd_ad1848_lib 8064 1 snd_cmi8330 snd_sb16_dsp 4992 1 snd_cmi8330 snd_pcm 38028 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_cmi8330,snd_ad1848_lib,snd_sb16_dsp snd_timer 11784 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 4616 1 snd_pcm snd_sb_common 7808 2 snd_cmi8330,snd_sb16_dsp snd 25316 11 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_cmi8330,snd_ad1848_lib,snd_sb16_dsp,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_sb_common soundcore 3552 3 snd ..... ---------------------------------------------------- /boot/config-2.6.20 relevant part ----------------------------------------------------- # # Sound # CONFIG_SOUND=m # # Advanced Linux Sound Architecture # CONFIG_SND=m CONFIG_SND_TIMER=m CONFIG_SND_PCM=m CONFIG_SND_HWDEP=m CONFIG_SND_RAWMIDI=m CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER=m # CONFIG_SND_SEQ_DUMMY is not set CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL=y CONFIG_SND_MIXER_OSS=m CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS=m CONFIG_SND_PCM_OSS_PLUGINS=y CONFIG_SND_SEQUENCER_OSS=y CONFIG_SND_RTCTIMER=m CONFIG_SND_SEQ_RTCTIMER_DEFAULT=y # CONFIG_SND_DYNAMIC_MINORS is not set # CONFIG_SND_SUPPORT_OLD_API is not set # CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PROCFS is not set # CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PRINTK is not set # CONFIG_SND_DEBUG is not set # # Generic devices # CONFIG_SND_MPU401_UART=m CONFIG_SND_OPL3_LIB=m CONFIG_SND_VX_LIB=m CONFIG_SND_AC97_CODEC=m CONFIG_SND_DUMMY=m CONFIG_SND_VIRMIDI=m CONFIG_SND_MTPAV=m # CONFIG_SND_MTS64 is not set CONFIG_SND_SERIAL_U16550=m CONFIG_SND_MPU401=m # # PCI devices # CONFIG_SND_AD1889=m CONFIG_SND_ALS300=m CONFIG_SND_ALS4000=m CONFIG_SND_ALI5451=m CONFIG_SND_ATIIXP=m CONFIG_SND_ATIIXP_MODEM=m CONFIG_SND_AU8810=m CONFIG_SND_AU8820=m CONFIG_SND_AU8830=m CONFIG_SND_AZT3328=m CONFIG_SND_BT87X=m # CONFIG_SND_BT87X_OVERCLOCK is not set CONFIG_SND_CA0106=m CONFIG_SND_CMIPCI=m CONFIG_SND_CS4281=m CONFIG_SND_CS46XX=m CONFIG_SND_CS46XX_NEW_DSP=y CONFIG_SND_CS5535AUDIO=m CONFIG_SND_DARLA20=m CONFIG_SND_GINA20=m CONFIG_SND_LAYLA20=m CONFIG_SND_DARLA24=m CONFIG_SND_GINA24=m CONFIG_SND_LAYLA24=m CONFIG_SND_MONA=m CONFIG_SND_MIA=m CONFIG_SND_ECHO3G=m CONFIG_SND_INDIGO=m CONFIG_SND_INDIGOIO=m CONFIG_SND_INDIGODJ=m CONFIG_SND_EMU10K1=m CONFIG_SND_EMU10K1X=m CONFIG_SND_ENS1370=m CONFIG_SND_ENS1371=m CONFIG_SND_ES1938=m CONFIG_SND_ES1968=m CONFIG_SND_FM801=m CONFIG_SND_FM801_TEA575X_BOOL=y CONFIG_SND_FM801_TEA575X=m CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=m CONFIG_SND_HDSP=m CONFIG_SND_HDSPM=m CONFIG_SND_ICE1712=m CONFIG_SND_ICE1724=m CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=m CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0M=m CONFIG_SND_KORG1212=m CONFIG_SND_MAESTRO3=m CONFIG_SND_MIXART=m CONFIG_SND_NM256=m CONFIG_SND_PCXHR=m CONFIG_SND_RIPTIDE=m CONFIG_SND_RME32=m CONFIG_SND_RME96=m CONFIG_SND_RME9652=m CONFIG_SND_SONICVIBES=m CONFIG_SND_TRIDENT=m CONFIG_SND_VIA82XX=m CONFIG_SND_VIA82XX_MODEM=m CONFIG_SND_VX222=m CONFIG_SND_YMFPCI=m # CONFIG_SND_AC97_POWER_SAVE is not set # # USB devices # CONFIG_SND_USB_AUDIO=m CONFIG_SND_USB_USX2Y=m # # PCMCIA devices # # CONFIG_SND_VXPOCKET is not set # CONFIG_SND_PDAUDIOCF is not set # # Open Sound System # # CONFIG_SOUND_PRIME is not set CONFIG_AC97_BUS=m ************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. 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