Hello,
I'm having exactly the same problem with my emu10k1 (SBLive 5.1)
sound card. All the MIDI programs I try seem to _think_ they're
working... but still no sound! (Other audio works fine, though.) I
have used the SuSE and Fedora distros, but same thing.
Any other ideas?
> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 15:38:40 -0500
> From: Laura Conrad <lconrad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Debian 2.6.14 alsa problems
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> >>>>> "th" == tim hall <tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> th> On Tuesday 03 January 2006 17:26, Lee Revell was like:
>
> >> What soundcard driver are you using? What exactly do you mean by
> >> "hardware midi doesn't work".
>
> emu10k1
>
> >>
> >> Please, be specific with these bug reports or they are useless.
>
> th> I have always found it necessary to add
> th> snd-seq-midi
> th> to /etc/modules to get MIDI to work on my DeMuDi systems.
>
> I have that. As far as I know, all the modules are loaded correctly,
> and when I say "pmidi -l", I get:
>
> Port Client name Port name
> 62:0 Midi Through Midi Through Port-0
> 64:0 EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART) EMU10K1 MPU-401 (UART)
> 65:0 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 0
> 65:1 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 1
> 65:2 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 2
> 65:3 Emu10k1 WaveTable Emu10k1 Port 3
>
> But when I say "pmidi -p 65:0 score.midi", it looks like it's trying
> to play, but I don't hear any sound. ("timidity score.midi" plays
> fine, and I've used asfxload to load a soundfont.)
>
> It may well be a mixer problem, but I've unmuted and raised the volume
> on everything that looks at all plausible.
>
