If the 7018 is similar to the 7012 in my laptop it only supports external midi. That means there is no way around the big downloads ^^ If you just want to play back midi files I'd recommend to go with timidity and best of all, it isn't that hard to set up ^^. just download it from www.timidity.jp and compile/install as usual or get it from your favourite binary repository this is my "configure line" it adds the X and gtk interface ... warning the CFLAGS are optional and highly machine dependent ./configure --prefix=/usr/ --sysconfdir=/etc/ --disable-more-warnings --disable-debug CFLAGS=' -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=athlon-tbird - m3dnow' LDFLAGS=' -O3 -s ' --enable-gtk --enable-xaw --enable- spectrogram Go to http://dodo.nurs.or.jp/~iz/guspat/tim-patches.html (japanese) and download all the guspat-* files. According to the fish are aq to aw optional. Then extract them to <prefix-of-timidity-install>/share/ so in my case /usr/share/ test timidity with : timidity <midifile> add -ia/-ig to get a nice X/gtk interface hope that was of help :) Am 21.02.2004 13:47:33 schrieb(en) Ruth A. Kramer: > Sorry, this is probably a very newbie question, and I haven't lurked > very long or searched the archives (partly because I don't have a > good > idea of keywords to search for). > > I've used Linux for a few years, but sound isn't normally a concern. > My > son is trying to make the switch from Windows to Linux (and has, for > some things) and now wants to play midi files. > > His impression is that, on Windows, sound players use synthesizer's > (and > "patches"/"samples") built into the sound card while on Linux those > patches/samples (??) have to be downloaded and he talks about 40 MB > worth of files in some cases. > > Maybe the difference is that we also changed computers, and his > current > computer has an on-board SiS 7018 sound thingie while his previous > computer (IIRC) had a separate sound card, possibly with something > like > the Yamaha OPL xxx on it. > > Any light anybody can shed on this would be appreciated. (I did skim > through a Linux Sound HOWTO (that was actually a little bit more like > an > FAQ), and saw some hints, but I really don't know how to interpret > them.) > > Keywords to use to search the archives or Google, or pointers to > simple > documentation that focuses on this subject could also be helpful. > > No doubt what ever I learn will end up on a WikiLearn page > (http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/WebChanges). > > thanks, > Randy Kramer > > > > >
