Joerg Hoehle <hoehle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Indeed, > aconnect 62:0 128:0 > somehow works. For the first time, I've been able to listen to MIDI > music from within Wine! > > However, I'm not convinced this is the right solution. Doing so > causes timidity to eat 25% of 600MHz CPU time even when there's > nothing to play! > I.e., as soon as I aconnect the above, CPU% goes up. > > I'm afraid there's something like a recursive output loop happening > here, i.e. timidity receiving its own output?!? I cannot see a loop in the output below. > Such does not happen when accessing timidity's port directly, e.g. > aplaymidi -p 128:0 foo.mid > without aconnect, in which case timitidy only eats CPU while playing > music (20-50% of 1.6GHz CPU, depending on the MIDI file). > > Here's some mapping info: > aconnect -ol > client 62: 'Midi Through' [type=kernel] > 0 'Midi Through Port-0' > Connecting To: 128:0 > client 128: 'TiMidity' [type=user] > 0 'TiMidity port 0 ' > Connected From: 62:0 > 1 'TiMidity port 1 ' > 2 'TiMidity port 2 ' > 3 'TiMidity port 3 ' My guess is that this is either a bug in timidity or in alsa. You might want to check the respective FAQs/MLs. Daniel _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users