From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Nov 16 10:21:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA04308 for multimedia-outgoing; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 10:21:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia) Received: from as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com (as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com [206.27.167.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA04301 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 10:21:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from conrads@as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by as5200-port-254.no.neosoft.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id MAA12625; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 12:20:56 GMT Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-beta-102697 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199711161612.RAA15067@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 12:20:56 -0000 (GMT) Reply-To: Conrad Sabatier Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. From: Conrad Sabatier To: Luigi Rizzo Subject: Re: AWE 64 MIDI config -- I'm lost Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 16-Nov-97 Luigi Rizzo wrote: >> MIDI is driving me nuts. I get no sound from playmidi, or it hangs my >> system >> altogether. Installed the awedrv package from Randall Hopper, rebuilt my >> kernel, but still no luck; AWE32 is not found at bootup. Compiled the >> AWE-enabled playmidi with the AWE selected as default device. No good. >> >> One thing I'm very confused about is the apparent conflict between "audio >> MIDI", i.e., MIDI output through the speakers, and external MIDI. What port >> address is used for the former? > > in order to play midi files, you either need to access the synthesys > devices (opl or the wavetable synthesizer on the AWE/GUS) or you can > use timidity (which according to people produces inferior sound quality). > The latter does the conversion in software so you can use /dev/audio > for the output. OK, good. Yes, timidity works great, and is a fine solution until I figure out how to get the AWE wave stuff going. But shouldn't playmidi work with my OPL? >> awe0 at 0x620 on isa >> AWE32 not found >> AWE32: not detected > > maybe you can make the probe a little more verbose so as to understand > what is going wrong. Or, ask Randall (i think) who originally imported > the AWE sources and certainly knows how to configure it. Good idea. Randall, are you out there? :-) -- Conrad Sabatier http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads And the Deep Thought of the Day (tm) is: Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. -- Sam Brown, "The Washington Post", January 26, 1977