On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 23:25 -0500, John Check wrote: > On Saturday 26 February 2005 08:31 pm, MarC wrote: > > I upgraded my debian testing and now MIDI doesn't work anymore. > > Before I could load soundfonts normally and now I get: > > > > marc@marcbcn:~$ sfxload > > No AWE synth device is found > > > > any clue about how to solve it? (google wasn't enough...) > > > > thanks in advance, > > I wouldn't be a debian user without such great mailing lists as LAU and > > debian-users... > > I'm running unstable but, assuming it's a SoundBlaster Live!, you need the > emu10k1-synth module loaded. > Easy fix is load it with modconf, an arguably "better" solution is to add a > post-install line to /etc/modutils/alsa: > > post-install snd-emu10k1 modprobe snd-emu10k1-synth > > don't forget to run update-modules. I load my default soundfont the same way. > > I'll indulge myself with some pedanticism here and mention FYI that MIDI > doesn't make any noise. It's yer wavetable that stopped working... Anyway > loading the wavetable module is what you need. > Also assuming you want to use native ALSA apps, you should use asfxload, not sfxload. sfxload will only load the soundfont for OSS emulation mode (/dev/sequencer). Lee
