I went through all that stuff for timidity++ and while midi plays under linux for me, I have never gotten it to work when running programs within wine. Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sylvain Petreolle" <spetreolle@yahoo.fr> To: "Tor Einar Toennessen" <eitoenne@online.no>; <wine-users@winehq.com> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 4:36 PM Subject: Re: MIDI configuration > Thanks. > I gave it a closer look yesterday and I have seen that a special > configuration of timidity++ is needed to support MIDI on my sound card. > (es1371). > > I will throw my es1371 and my NVidia sh**t out. > > First of all you need a driver that supports midi. Some of the > > OSS-drivers > > does not support midi. > > I have a Soundblaster Live Platinum, and AFAIK the OSS > > (kernel)-driver does > > not support midi. > > > > AFAIK this is true for all SB Live cards. > > > > If the kernel-driver for your card does not support midi, you'll have > > to > > check out ALSA ( http://alsa-project.org ). > > > > There are two series of ALSA-drivers 0.5 (which is now considered > > deprecated) > > and 0.9. AFAIK 0.9 is now at RC6-level. > > > > ALSA has OSS-emulation at kernel-level, by the way. > > > > You might also have to get a utility to load soundfonts into your > > card. > > For SB-cards you can use "sfxload", which on debian is in package > > "awesfx". > > > > After this I would test with a native Linux-application. The > > ALSA-pages > > has links. > > > > > > When it comes to wine, midi support is only available in the > > OSS-driver > > ( that would be wineoss.drv ). So make sure that one is selected in > > the > > wine-config. AFAIK only midi-out is supported (but that is probably > > what you want). > > > > As a Windows application to test with, I would suggest JAZZ++ > > ( http://jazzware.com ). > > This is an OpenSource sequencer , which is available for both Linux > > and > > Windows. > > It uses wxWindows, so you should be able to build it with > > debugging-info > > too, with a free compiler ( MinGW32 ? ). > > > > > > If you give me more details about your card, I can probably help you > > more. > > > > > > > > > > Tor Einar > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > wine-users mailing list > > wine-users@winehq.com > > http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users > > ===== > Sylvain Petreolle > spetreolle@users.sourceforge.net > Fight against Spam ! http://www.euro.cauce.org/en/index.html > ICQ #170597259 > > "Don't think you are. Know you are." Morpheus, in "Matrix". > > ___________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! > Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.com > http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
