Sorry for top posting, but: Have you tried aplaymidi? It's part of/comes with alsa. aplaymidi -l shows you ports aplaymidi -p port midifile plays "midifile" to the mid port "port" Works fine for me. On Wed, 16 Mar, 2005 at 11:30AM +0100, Til Schubbe spake thus: > Hallo, > > I want to play a MIDI-file with a "normal", internal soundcard. > > The sound-howto seems to be outdated (7/2001). The midi-howto tells > something in "8.2 MIDI file players" so I installed pmidi but I get > the following: > > til@debian:~ - pmidi -l > Port Client name Port name > til@debian:~ - > > Then I installed yiff which is now running on 14541/tcp and > fluidsynth and got 2 soundfonts: > > fluidsynth -ni Fender2.sf2 /tmp/export.mid > fluidsynth: warning: Failed to pin the sample data to RAM; swapping > is possible. > fluidsynth: error: The "default" audio device is used by another > application > Failed to create the audio driver > > I can play .wav with wavp. > > Here is some module-info: > > til@debian:~ - lsmod |egrep snd > snd_seq_oss 33408 0 > snd_seq_midi 7712 0 > snd_rawmidi 21408 1 snd_seq_midi > snd_seq_midi_event 6272 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi > snd_seq 55184 5 > snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event > snd_seq_device 7308 4 > snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq > snd_intel8x0 29376 0 > snd_ac97_codec 76536 1 snd_intel8x0 > snd_pcm_oss 56992 0 > snd_mixer_oss 19328 1 snd_pcm_oss > snd_pcm 92808 3 > snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss > snd_timer 23044 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm > snd 55044 12 > snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer > soundcore 7648 1 snd > snd_page_alloc 8324 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm > > I'm running Debian Sid on i386. > > How can I play midi-files with my internal soundcard? > > TIA > Til > -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
